recommend me a mainboard

[Elspuddy]

hi
I’m thinking of doing a small upgrade to my gaming pc, I’m thinking of going for a AMD FX 9590 but i can’t seem to find a good mainboard to go with it, I’m looking for one with at least pci-e 3.0 so my 970 can open up a bit more also raid would be nice as my steam drive is a raid 0 , my budget is about £200 (not including cpu)

[pastymuncher]

Don't waste your money on that overpriced power hungry cpu. If you are going to spend that sort of money then a i5 4690k and Z97 motherboard is the way to go. If you really want to stick to AMD then get a 8320/8320e which will drop in your current motherboard and clock it.

i5 4690K and Gigabyte Z97X-SLI bundle £277.98

or

8320e £109.99 or 8320 £119.99.

[EndlessWaves]

The 9590 is a strange choice for a primarily gaming PC, it's quite a lot slower than a similarly priced i5 in the typical floating point heavy game.

All of the AM3+ chipsets are pretty ancient and don't support PCI-E 3.0. Graphics cards don't see much benefit from it though so it's no big deal:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...Scaling/1.html

I'm not quite sure what your requirements are with the RAID setup. What do you mean by a 'bit more RAID'? I'm not quite sure what your current set up is doing, I didn't think steam had been that successful at getting non-game apps.

[DanceswithUnix]

What rev is your existing motherboard? If that is a DS3 rev 3, then it can take an FX8370 and job done. Don't bother with the 'E' low power variant, I don't think you will see enough performance increase over your existing hex core Phenom.

[Elspuddy]

What rev is your existing motherboard? If that is a DS3 rev 3, then it can take an FX8370 and job done. Don't bother with the 'E' low power variant, I don't think you will see enough performance increase over your existing hex core Phenom.

According to the mainboard 1.1

[DanceswithUnix]

According to the mainboard 1.1

Ok, that isn't so good. The supported CPU list is:

http://uk.gigabyte.com/support-downl....aspx?pid=4297

Of those I think the most interesting one is the FX 6350. These chips need clock speed to be impressive, which is why I am ignoring the 8370E.

In your shoes I would probably get a new motherboard, and with that budget I would probably be looking at an i5 or Xeon.