motherboard chip set question

ezaz12121 · Jan 19, 2014

I know what north bridge and south bridge handle , my question is what do the letter and number mean on the mobo like z786 and ga b85 , the CPU I have is i5 4430 LGA 1150 socket and GPU is gtx 760 , the mobo I am looking at is this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128629

What specs should I look for in mobo for gaming , what is the difference between the chipsets z77 , z87 , x79.

Nuclear101 · Jan 20, 2014

Ok, so for intel chipsets, this is the broad explanation:

Z series chipsets: for gaming and/or overclocking and/or overclocking (only fully unlocked chipset)
H series chipsets: basically the Z series without overclocking abilities
Q series chipsets: business (many USB headers but not so much performance)
B series chipsets: small business (little use except for work-office computers)
NOTE: These are all LGA 1150 chipsets, which is the mainstream core i3, i5, i7, pentium processors
The reason why it is called LGA 1150 is because there are 1150 pins on the motherboard. The x79 chipset is for the LGA 2011 socket, which has 2011 pins and is substantially larger
Now for the "extreme" edition processors (up to 6 cores and much more performance with up to 8 RAM slots)

x79: Only current generation LGA 2011 chipset. Basically allows overclocking (on "K" series CPU's) and everything else. Has all of the features combined but is extremely expensive.

For the guide on LGA 1150: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Z87-H87-H81-Q87-Q85-B85-What-is-the-difference-473/

For you, I would go for the Z87. But make sure to get a "K" series i5 eg. i5-4670k for overclocking= best performance.

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