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New PC - Minor Overclocking

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  • Overclocking
  • Video Editing
  • Intel i7
  • Motherboards
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September 14, 2013 9:32:00 AM

Hi Guys!

I'm building a new PC (i7 4770k (possibly i5, but definetely Haswell) with Hyper 212 EVO, GTX 770, 16GB 1866) for Gaming/Gameplay Capturing/Video Editing. I'm fairly new at building PC's and don't want to overclock until down the road a little. I need some help with Motherboards.

I've been planning on this Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

I researched up on it, however, and learned the Maximus ROG MOBOs are designed for extreme overclocking.

As I said I'm new to this and might overclock a tad down the road, but I'm not pushing for any EXTREME overclocking... I'd probably push it to around 4 ghz, maybe a LITTLE higher...

I know I want the board to have 6 SATA III (2 HDD, 2 SSD, and room for more), 2 (though 4 would be nice) USB 3.0 ports, and 2 PCI Express 3.0 ports (16/0; 8/8; or maybe if 16/16 exists) for SLI down the road. I think the only component I'd overclock is the CPU, but the flexibility to OC others wouldn't hurt.

Here is a board that I saw with a much more appealing price tag, but if you could recommend anything better that'd be great:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

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September 14, 2013 12:26:51 PM

You picked the best first, go with the Hero if budget allows, won't be sorry, I looked long and hard before going with it for my personal build
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September 14, 2013 12:57:56 PM

Tradesman1 said:
You picked the best first, go with the Hero if budget allows, won't be sorry, I looked long and hard before going with it for my personal build


Oh... okay! Budget wasn't the biggest issue I just figured I could save an extra 80 bucks dropping 2 SATA Ports and some other features... Thanks!
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September 14, 2013 1:09:30 PM

Overall, think you'll be very happy (know I am) high performance, great OCing, handles basically and DRAM, have used a number of sets, as well as tried numerous GPU's with it, (I test components for new builds and upgrades on mine in addition to everyday use)
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