[Fireskull]

Hi, HuserDerLuft


Gigabyte motherboard, GTX 460 or higher (460 is affordable) =0r= an HD RADEON 5000 series, liquid cooling, and an Intel 7i (if you can afford it).
People seem to like the reliability and customer service of Gigabyte stuff, plus they seem to allow better rendering of high demand games like Crysis generally better than other boards. Frankly, the best visuals that I have seen on YouTube were from systems that run Gigabyte motherboards.
Both AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards which are DirectX11 compliant are great hardware, but build based on motherboard issues, in my opinion.
Get at least 6GB of RAM and at least a Quad Core to keep you going strong for years with new games and simulation releases.
If you follow these simple guidelines, then you will have a great system.
... just my little viewpoint. :mrgreen:
Fireskull

After you told me about Gigabyte I did some research on it, and people seem to give it high ratings.
As for processor, I'm sticking to AMD Quad Core (965 - 3.4ghz), 460GTX VIDEO Card, & air cooling (for now) liquid cooling, i7 etc.. is something for the Extreme gamer.
I'm a medium gamer. Hopefully this will run FSX (and Il-2) fairly decent.

All I need is some help with the motherboard.

I've narrowed it down to two choices:

ASUS M4A87TD EVO



or

GIGABYTE GA-870A-UD3



So, based on my processor and GPU, performance wise (and features)
which of the two is more suited considering they are both the same price?

I trust the opinion of fellow gamers more than review sites - who get paid money to advertise the product.

any comments welcome

Well, of course, they are both good.

I talked with someone a while ago who uses the 333 and he was amazed at the image quality and performance with his system. On the other hand, EVO is a proven board.


With what you have, you will get nice image and performance. I am sure that you will be happy with it.



Fireskull