Best Gaming Motherboard for me

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TheFatMan5

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I do not do the fancy shmancy stuff with graphics cards. I buy one of the latest GPU’s and roll with that. I am looking at the GTX 780 or the Titan right now. What Motherboard would be best for that scenario. Also give me a second option if I ever decide to run two cards at once if I ever feel the need to have two 780s or two Titans, though I doubt that will ever happen.
 
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TheFatMan5

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This is what I settled on. Thanks for the Motherboard recommendation.

Case: NZXT Phantom 410 Black
PSU: Core™ i7 3930K Processor (6x 3.20GHz/12MB L3 Cache)
PSU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H60 Liquid CPU (ARC Dual Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade (Push-Pull Airflow)
RAM: 16 GB 8x2 1866 Ripjaws X (free upgrade from 1600)
GPU: Dual Card Crossfire AMD Radeon HD 7970
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4
Power Supply: 1200 Watt NZXT HALE90V2
Storage: 256 GB ADATA SX900 SSD
Storage: 2x 1 TB Hard Drive RAID 0
Optical: LG Blu-Ray Reader, DVD Reader/Burner
Sound: ASUS Xonar DX
 
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TheFatMan5

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I went with iBuyPower instead of building my own this time because I would have only saved $300 building it myself and they overclock for you. Last time I overclocked it took me forever so I took the lazy route. They had a summer sale and I purchased it from the online military exchange store so saved a few hundred because of that as well.
 
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TheFatMan5

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I got it from iBuy power so I assume they know what they are doing. I did go through forums and checked the newegg comments and as far as I could tell the Video cards have no problem running on that motherboard or with an i7 processor. Using a Radeon GPU sucks because I have not used one of those for about 10 years now because I had a problem with one of them before. The 7970 had such good reviews when you run two of them I had to give them a chance again. I like NVIDIA but the cost of the Titans were pretty high I figured I would wait till the price came down then if a need came up replace the 7970’s with two of them. I still have a pit in my stomach after ordering a rig with Radeon cards but NVIDIA just priced themselves out of my range and if Radeon are better at most of the bench tests with two of their 7970’s vs a Titan and still cost less I am not stubborn enough not to give them a try. I am still a little worried that this is not a rig I am putting together myself. I have never had a gaming PC I did not build myself. I just tell myself it’s just a PC and I can fix anything if they jack it up. Like I said above it only cost $300 more to have them put it together for me. Because I am at an APO AE address sometimes it is a pain in the butt because ordering parts individually it may take over 30 days for one part and I get all the other parts in a few days. This screws me if one of the earlier parts do not work when I put the machine together and it is past the 30 day return policy. If that happens I am stuck talking to customer service for one of the part manufacturers that is either an idiot or thinks I am an idiot. Either way if iBuypower does not suck they will keep me as a customer… until they screw me once ofcourse.
 
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