Best Motherboard For i5-3570k

Janny1993UK · Apr 17, 2013

Hello. I will be upgrading to i5-3570k soon and wanting to know what motherboard would be the best to buy? Around £80 / $120? would be a nice price

Will be upgrading from FX-4100.

I was thinking of buying this one but not sure if it's the best one to get.

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/39736518/740580071/ASRock-Z77-Pro4-M-Motherboard-i7-i5-i3-Socket-1155-Z77-mATX-Gigabit-LAN/ListingDetails.html?_%24ja=tsid:11518|cat:39736518|prd:39736518

Thank you for any replys

th3_ory · Apr 17, 2013

Not really sure how much £80 is but the one you linked is also a great one

MSI Z77A-GD65

Janny1993UK · Apr 17, 2013

th3_ory :

£80 is about 120$ or so i think

Janny1993UK · Apr 17, 2013

hmm.. well the one i showed (z77 pro4-m sandy is £75) and (msi z77a-gd65 is £99) is the extra £24 worth getting it?

JackNaylorPE · Apr 17, 2013

$124 after $20 MIR - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131848
$120 after $20 MIR - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837

Both have two PCIE-3 slots

This is a steal w/ the 3570k for $285 .... basically MoBo costs ya $65
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1270852

Too bad ya on the wrong side of the pond

Greatatlantic · Apr 17, 2013

I own an MSI Z77a G43, and overclocked my i5 3570K to 4.5 ghz. It should be a few pounds cheaper than your price range.

Here's the deal, Intel designs all the motherboards, and companies like Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte make them with their own little tweaks. However, they are all working off the same blue print. You don't get any big performance boost by using a more expensive motherboard, its the exact same chipset. What you are actually buying is "slots." And build quality, but mostly slots. The really expensive motherboards can hold 4 or more graphics cards. Are you going to actually use more than one? Maybe two if you have a triple monitor set up going, but four? No. My motherboard (the aforementioned MSI Z77a g43) has 6 SATA slots, which hard drives are plugged into. I'm using three of them: an SSD, a HD, and a DVD burner.

For your needs, you either want an H77 chipset if you have no interest in overclocking, or a Z77 chipset if you do want to overclock, which is the whole point of getting a "k" series processor.

Janny1993UK · Apr 17, 2013

JackNaylorPE :

Haha yeah :/ well thanks for the help. Think i know what i'm going to do in the end. Just need to wait another week and can buy motherboard and processor.

Janny1993UK · Apr 18, 2013

Greatatlantic :

I own an MSI Z77a G43, and overclocked my i5 3570K to 4.5 ghz. It should be a few pounds cheaper than your price range.

Here's the deal, Intel designs all the motherboards, and companies like Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte make them with their own little tweaks. However, they are all working off the same blue print. You don't get any big performance boost by using a more expensive motherboard, its the exact same chipset. What you are actually buying is "slots." And build quality, but mostly slots. The really expensive motherboards can hold 4 or more graphics cards. Are you going to actually use more than one? Maybe two if you have a triple monitor set up going, but four? No. My motherboard (the aforementioned MSI Z77a g43) has 6 SATA slots, which hard drives are plugged into. I'm using three of them: an SSD, a HD, and a DVD burner.

For your needs, you either want an H77 chipset if you have no interest in overclocking, or a Z77 chipset if you do want to overclock, which is the whole point of getting a "k" series processor.

Thank you for explanation

now i fully understand. I will probably be buying the z77 as i may try overclock abit in the future once everything is set up with my computer.

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