Need a Micro-ATX board for a i5-3570K

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I had a Q6600 for a while now, and I decided it was about time for an upgrade.

I do many tasks with the pc but I only hit its bottlenecks while gaming, so that's the task I'm shooting for.

Following "Tom's best gaming cpus for the money" I settled on a i5-3570K, and now I'm looking for a board. The only problem is that I'd rather have a micro-ATX one so that I can put it in a small case on my living room.

I browsed through a few but my untrained eye failed to see any relevant differences that would inform my choice. Any suggestions, or specific things I should be looking for?

- As a side note, I still havan't decided on whether to upgrade my graphics card, which is now a GTX 560.

EDIT: - Another side note. I don't intend to do any overclocking.

 

[13thmonkey]

there isn't much difference, they are all functionally similar. what brand do you trust is what it comes down to.

 

[Madn3ss795]

If you don't want to do OC-ing, just get the i5 4670 instead ( highest performance at stock clock, compared to any other i5 ) and a mATX B85 motherboard, like the Gigabyte B85M-D3H, or a H87 motherboard if you need RAID feature, like Asrock H87 Pro4-m.

 

[Budge414]

These:

CPU: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54570

Mobo: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-h87me

Just keep in mind that the motherboard doesn't support SLI/CFX and your golden.

 

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Great advice. Thanks a lot.