help me pick!

[Thovarisk]

Well long story short my motherboard a 890GXM-G65 I bought about 2 years ago or so...
My system has been randomly freezing, at first I suspected my ram because its specced @1.9v and the mobo specifies 1.5v ram so... yeah, but today it crashed like... 4 times in a row not recognizing my mouse and now it seems to have forgoten its integrated network port RJ45 at all... as in not only drivers, windows says there is none to be recognized.... sad story.
I'm suspecting the chipset is going downhill from here so its time for a new mobo/ram combo.
My cpu is a Phenom II X4 965BE deneb 95w i believe and my options are these locally:

ASRock 970 Extreme3: $127
ASRock N68-VS3 UCC: $51
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P - 3.1: $65

after looking at these... i can't make a pick.. price/performace, as i dont have any USB 3.0 devices it doesn't do much for me to have it atm, besides i'll probably buy a couple of corsair ram sticks 1600 DDR3.

which one should i pick? please bear in mind I'm in no way rich so this will have to come from my monthly budget so i'd rather not go the expensive way unless it really makes a big difference. Thanks.

 

[Falx]

I looked and looked and and looked, read review after review before picking my mobo.

First off. LOCALLY? Cmon man this is the internet. Get your ass to a website! That asrock board is good and can be bought around 90 bucks on the internet :/

 

[Thovarisk]

costarrican law charges 75% off any electronics brought into the country so... $90+ $67.5 = $157.5 for a $90 mobo, thats why. oh +S&H

 

[Razulian]

EDIT: made it a bit more understandable.

The 760G Northbridge in the Gigabyte board gets quite hot (I've owned a 760G based board once, it went up to 90°C on mine). Same thing goes for the ASRock N68. The reason for the high heat is mainly because they both have an IGP (which you probably won't use anyway).
Also the N68 has a bad heatsink on the northbridge and is 6 years old.

The 970 in the Asrock board doesn't have an IGP and has a low TDP of 13.6W, which means it'll stay a cool. The ASRock 970 board also has better heat dissipation.

Now the thing about heat and microprocessors is, is that when they heat up and cool down a lot, they'll die faster. It's one of the main reasons why many motherboards, video cards, etc. die.

So if you want a board that'll have more chance in functioning properly over the next couple of years then get the 970 (you'll also have more upgrading space btw), else get the 760G it performs well too and is cheap (except for the heat thing).

 

[Thovarisk]

thanks raz, i was already leaning towards the 970e3.... mine is working again... dunno what to think about it.... i believe that if it failed once...