Nice ~ $85-90 Ivy Bridge Mobo

tical2399 · Oct 2, 2013

Whats good people,

As the title says I'm looking for a good IB mobo at the price point listed above. I'm about to buy a 3570 and I'm looking for a nice mobo for it. The reason i'm going with IB over Haswell is the difference in mobo prices is significant (to me at least) and with the discount that newegg is doing right now, the 3570 is $195.

I have a 7870 and do plan to get another to crossfire early next year (if I dont go with an r9 290x or 280x) so the mobo need to be able to do crossfire. I'm know 1155 is a dead socket, but i'm coming from a I7 920 so as you can see upgrading early and often is not a big thing to me. Probably wont upgrade again til after skymont.

Any IB mobo suggestions are appreciated. If there is one in the listed price range that has uefi let me know. Thanks

Sakkura · Oct 2, 2013

If you want proper Crossfire, you'll have to spend a little more. Like an Asrock Z77 Extreme3 for $110.

Cheaper boards only support x16/x4 mode, which isn't optimal.

tical2399 · Oct 2, 2013

Sakkura :

So are you saying this is the ONLY board that supports what im assuming is 8x/8x thats anywhere near the price I stated?

smorizio · Oct 2, 2013

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837
114.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131981
140

smorizio · Oct 2, 2013

both the 1155 and 1150 splits the pci 3.0 port to 8x unless there a multiplexer chip on the mb if there is one then the mb is 200-300 in price.

Sakkura · Oct 2, 2013

tical2399 :

It's the cheapest one I could find. There are plenty of others costing just slightly more.

tical2399 · Oct 2, 2013

Might just have to leave the crossfire out of the picture and with something a little less pricey and just jump on that 280x later

tical2399 · Oct 2, 2013

Sakkura :

Ok so are their any decent (doesnt have to be world beating) haswell boards for the price I initially listed or maybe $100 max? If so I'll just spend the extra 5 bucks on the 4570

smorizio · Oct 2, 2013

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CRJTZVW/?tag=pcpapi-20

Sakkura · Oct 2, 2013

tical2399 :

Plenty of decent boards for either Haswell or Ivy Bridge if you leave out Crossfire. If you want x8/x8 it costs $120 plus change with Haswell.

A nice Ivy Bridge board around $85-90 would be the Asrock Z75 Pro3.
For Haswell, maybe an Asrock H87M or Asrock H87M Pro4.

tical2399 · Oct 2, 2013

Ok looks like I got a choice to make, pay extra from the xfire support or get something in my budget now and grab a 280x or 290x later. I'll look at some benches to see if I can find some with the 3570 or 4570 using a single 7870

Also, do any of the ivy or haswell boards play nice with 1866 ram? Got 8 gigs of gskill ares 2x4gb laying aroud. I know ivy and haswell only "officially support" up to 1600, but will 1866 work?

Sakkura · Oct 3, 2013

The Z75 board will run the 1866 RAM at 1866 - or even higher, if you overclock it. The H87s will simply run it at 1600.

(in both cases, it may default to 1333, but you'll be able to set it to 1600, or 1866 for the Z75 board)

The Z75 board will also allow you to overclock the CPU a little bit. The 3570 can be overclocked by 4 multiplier bins (~400 MHz).

Mousemonkey · Oct 3, 2013

tical2399 :

I think there is reasonable cause to believe that Pitcairn has been EOL'd so you might have issues getting a new card if you leave too long.

Sakkura · Oct 3, 2013

It will probably remain available for quite a while. The 6000 series was available for a long time after the 7000 series launched.

Mousemonkey · Oct 3, 2013

Sakkura :

Maybe, maybe not.

Review: PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 Devil
PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 Devil

27 September 2013, 13:00

The last hurrah of Pitcairn XT.

Sakkura · Oct 3, 2013

Well, the demise of the 7850 was predicted back in March, and it's still here. Unless you have some reliable information there's no reason to confuse people with pure speculation.

Mousemonkey · Oct 3, 2013

Sakkura :

I'm not speculating and I didn't write the article, go to that site and you will see that it they who say it's the last hurrah not me.

Sakkura · Oct 3, 2013

That site is just a HTTP 404.

Mousemonkey · Oct 3, 2013

Sakkura :

It works for me but here's a SS of the homepage for you.

http://hexus.net/

tical2399 · Oct 3, 2013

Crossfire is a moot point now, as I went with the board below

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131835

Based on what you guys have said about boards in this price range, i'm sure it wont do great crossfire (maybe not a all) since it only has 1x pcie 3.0 and 1x pci 2.0 @4x so i'll just get a 280x or 290x around January or so thanks for the help on that.

Also, as I stated a few posts back, I have some g skill ares 1866 ram laying around will these play nice with the 3570 and the board listed above even though it only officially support up to 1600?

Sakkura · Oct 3, 2013

It should work fine. That board supports 1866 RAM too, and there's a note that it will default to 1800 (but should just be a matter of changing that to 1866 via XMP).

Nice ~ $85-90 Ivy Bridge Mobo

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