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Stephen Myers

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I believe I'll be looking for a new MOBO and CPU. I think I'm going to go with the i7 Ivy Bridge 3770. Seems like a solid investment provided that it lasts. In searching for a good mobo, it seems like every brand has a certain percentage of buyers where they claim it didn't work out of the box. It kind of makes me question which brand to get even though I know this site seems to go with Gigabyte....so does the brand even matter?

I only need one PCIe 3 port for my GTX 660ti. I'll only have one HDD and one optical. I wouldn't call myself a PC gamer, but what I do play I like to run well, which is why I got the 660ti.
 
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You'll do fine with Gigabyte, Asus, MSI or AsRock. Pair that Cpu with an H77 motherboard to save a little bit of money, or upgrade to the 3770k with a Z77 motherboard to have the option of overclocking in the future. Decide on a budget and take a look for boards under that, then if you have questions repost a topic here and we'll give ya opinions and advice. For Z77 boards,I finally went with the Asus P8Z77-V LK board that cost me about 115 dollars. I've been happy with it even though I had to RMA the first one I got. Sometimes, even from good manufacturers, that happens though.
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You'll do fine with Gigabyte, Asus, MSI or AsRock. Pair that Cpu with an H77 motherboard to save a little bit of money, or upgrade to the 3770k with a Z77 motherboard to have the option of overclocking in the future. Decide on a budget and take a look for boards under that, then if you have questions repost a topic here and we'll give ya opinions and advice. For Z77 boards,I finally went with the Asus P8Z77-V LK board that cost me about 115 dollars. I've been happy with it even though I had to RMA the first one I got. Sometimes, even from good manufacturers, that happens though.
 
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Thanks. My budget is....well there really isn't one, which kind of makes the selection process difficult..haha. I suppose it would make sense for me to save some money on the mobo, provided that it will actually function properly. But yeah, it seems every manufacturer has some percentage of failure out of the box. See this is for a new build/rebuild. It would technically be my first build, although I've upgraded my PC's in the past on nearly every component. See my Dell kind of crapped out and I narrowed it down to either mobo or CPU failure, but seeing as how they're 1366 socket type, I figured it would be best/cheapest to replace them both.

But that also means I'll probably have to purchase a new OS since it was OEM, and then the original mobo had six ram slots with 1 gig sticks and the new one will likely have four, so I may have to get new RAM....just a cascade of things happening here.
 
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Alright I'm kind of leaning towards this ASRock Z75. Seems everything is compatible and it's under 100 bucks. Keep in mind I have no intention of ever overclocking or using the SLI function of the 660ti.
 
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My wife has the AsRock H77m board, and it's pretty decent. I had no issues putting together her build with an i5 3350p Cpu. I didn't really like the AsRock website for updating the drivers for the motherboard, but that's probably just me.
 
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