Best PC motherboard under £150? (230 E / 230 $ ish)

[Cyberus]

Been out of the loop for a while and have been asked to help a mate build a 'puter. He probably can't go wrong buying the components himself, but I wanna make sure he gets a good mobo - any recommendations?

(He'll most likely be using it for games, music, and watching video only)

Cheers

[Cyberus]

odin wrote:
Is there any particular reason why it is worth shelling out so much money for a mobo when there are also decent ~100EUR ASUS motherboards?

Well, I just asked how much he had to spend, and he plucked a few figures out of the air - he has a few hundred quid spare. But I probably won't recommend he actually buy a mobo that costs 150 quid. He won't be using RAID, he won't be overclocking, etc


Thanks to everyone for your replies - I guess Asus still dominate in terms of performance then?

[Cyberus]

Gaming, gaming, gaming

And music and video (playing, not creating)

I've been looking about and have come up with a few ideas - we've just been sitting looking around on the net and I've come up with a prime contender.

But I'm torn - I doubt he'll be using RAID arrays etc, but he has said he's quite happy to lay down a wedge if it means it'll be upgradeable and he won't have to mess around for a while.

Anyway, this is the family of mobos I was looking at:


Premium

Deluxe

Or the other option would be a bundle with a slightly cut down version of the mobo
Bundle

He has the money to go all singing all dancing, but he's not a computer geek. He says he could get into all the windowed cases et al, but I doubt he'd go as far as overclocking and water cooling...

But he does want something that will support decent processors and would give him good gfx performance....

Any thoughts?
The price differences for the mobos are about 20 quid (30$) from SE, to premium, to deluxe.


Cheers

[Cyberus]

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