ASUS M4A88TD-M Micro ATX Motherboard Showcase- BoxeoUnboxings

[DipKins33]

good for gaming?

[BoxeoP4P]

@DipKins33 fine for gaming. As long as you're not OCing too much you're fine because this does only use a 4 pin cpu power not the standard 8-pin in current motherboards. Results for gaming will mostly depend on your cpu, video card, ram, hdd/ssd,etc.

[DipKins33]

@BoxeoP4P i'll be getting a amd phenom ii x4 960t, 8gb of ddr3 ram, gtx 550 ti and 750gb western digital hard drive. is this good for gaming? i'm new to pc gaming X)

[BoxeoP4P]

@DipKins33 it'll be a good gaming rig. Just stay away from 5400rpm hd, stick with 7200rpm if you can. 8gb not necessary for gaming, but if its within your budge it wouldn't hurt. Hf making your rig!

[DipKins33]

@BoxeoP4P the hd is a 7200rpm and the 8gb of ram is for a really low price so why not? And thanks a lot for the help :)

[BoxeoP4P]

@DipKins33 yeah, RAM are pretty cheap these days and np :)

[hellview666]

Hi,

Would this board be appropriate for a mATX home recording PC setup? I am lookign for a motherboard that can house the following for a super small home recording set up:

- AMD Phenom II x6

- 8Gb RAM

- 1Tb HDD (my current build has this)

- DVD-RW

- Line 6 KB37 USB powered unit (keyboard and sound card in one)

Thanks

[BoxeoP4P]

@hellview666 Hello, It sure will. Also has onboard graphics on the room to add your own discrete video card.

[GodlyFilmsProduction]

wifi?

[BoxeoP4P]

@GodlyFilmsProduction nope, but can use wirless via third party wireless adapters via pci, pci-e or usb devices

[GodlyFilmsProduction]

wifi

[jarskiXD]

What is the difference between a micro-ATX mobo and an ATX mobo? Like in the performance?

[BoxeoP4P]

@jarskiXD Mainly power consumption, crossfire limitation (usually only has 1 pci-e x16 slot) and overclocking limitation for cpu (board only runs off a 4pin for cpu power). You can definetly overclock with this mobo but I suspect as you get higher and higher mhz it will become harder to maintain. OCing capbability for GPU should be the same as any motherboard. If anyone has anything else to add feel free =) & hope that helps

[KedViper]

What are you talking about servers and home theaters? I use this to play games, lol.

[BoxeoP4P]

@KedViper Add a nice video card in the x16 and it'll be good for games =). But most gamers (moderate to high) won't be buying this due to little/no room to expand and limited overclocking capabilities. Some hints are the price & the fact that it uses a 4Pin CPU power connector instead of the standard 8Pin (as well as a 4+1 power phase design). But other than that nothing wrong with using this board to game if you're on a tight budget or don't care for the "high performance" in games =) lol.

[BoxeoP4P]

@KedViper im actually thinking of installing starcraft 2 on here and see how well it holds up myself.

[KedViper]

@BoxeoP4P Well, I can play Crysis Warhead on max settings (except for motion blur, cause it's to much for my head all the way up) and it runs very well.

My rig:

Phenom II X4 840

GeForce GTX 460

4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz

1 TB internal memory

Everything stays very cool.

[BoxeoP4P]

@KedViper thats pretty sweet. I'm gonna be trying games this mobo pretty soon. I'm gonna try overclocking a bit too lol. Thanks for letting us know.

[browney1000]

hi i really like ur video

i have a question that iam buying a amd athlon ii x2 250 dual core 3.00Ghz will that work on this motherboard plz tell me

ty

i subscribed u too

[BoxeoP4P]

@browney1000 Hi, thanks for the kind words and the sub! and yes, your cpu will work with this motherboard. That CPU is an AM3 socket =)

[browney1000]

@BoxeoP4P ty

[alex189100]

Asus always rock & always has a great capacity for ocing. Nice unbox

[BoxeoP4P]

@alex189100 Amen to that, and thanks alex!

[sheerfe4rstudios]

nice unboxing man, great mobo, did you get any deals from other companies?

[BoxeoP4P]

@sheerfe4rstudios Nope not yet, I haven't contacted any companies yet. I plan to next weekend!

[TheDQKing]

I just bought one of these suckas for a home server

THANKS BOX

[BoxeoP4P]

@crazynsober2day Me too! lol.

[Jerry2665]

Looks like a good little mobo. will you test it out on a system? Like to see what you can get out of it.

[BoxeoP4P]

@Jerry2665 Sure jerry, I won't be able to do it ASAP though. BTW, when you said you'd like to see what you can get out of it, did you mean OCing ability for cpu, gpu, ram, etc? Thanks!

[Jerry2665]

@BoxeoP4P Yes overclocking ability for CPU I think you said a low watt PSU is all it can handle. Or maybe you said all you would use.

[ScreamingDeadLungs]

this guy sounds like salad fingers...

[BoxeoP4P]

@ScreamingDeadLungs thanks, i suppose...I just watched a clip of salad fingers, it was a bit weird lol

[ScreamingDeadLungs]

@BoxeoP4P lol, also that cyclone GTX 460. IT IS KICK ASS! i love that card :P.

[BoxeoP4P]

@ScreamingDeadLungs my brother loves it too (its his card) I'm not having too much fun with AMD's 5970 drivers at the moment

[ScreamingDeadLungs]

@BoxeoP4P eh, I switched from an ati card. it was pretty bad. lol

[sheerfe4rstudios]

@ScreamingDeadLungs thats not nice...

[ScreamingDeadLungs]

@sheerfe4rstudios what wasn't?