Mobo Support for I7 4770k and Dual SLI compatable?

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Rolando_d

Rolando_d

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Hey guys,

right now Im in the market for an I7 4770k CPU and I'll need a Motherboard to support it, I'm looking to go to SLI in the future so thats important but never with more than 1 card. I plan on running SLI with 2 GTX 760s.

I do overclock but not a ton, so if I could get that I7 4770k to about 4.1-4.2 stable Id be happy.
Any ideas? My budget is to try to keep it under $160 or so. I have seen several Z87 boards but I'm very unfamiliar with the specs that influence each and could use some help.

Thanks!
 
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There are all sorts of reasons to buy a mobo - match your CPU, use compatible RAM, have SATA 2/3 ports, have USB 2/3 ports, good VRM - no. phases - for fine voltage control and overclocking CPU and Memory, PCie slots, PCie channels, DDR3 channels, Fan control, UEFI, bios change, voltage measurement.
More features like this and you usually only find them on boards with at least 2 PCiE slots. My mobo I can't use the third slot anyway - its too close to my PSU. Most people only use 2 card XFire/SLI. After that the scaling is crap for 1080p. People also want PCie slots for sound cards, sata SSDs, WiFi, etc.
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I've looked into it a little bit but I don't think I understand. Why do Gamers go with High priced Mobos when they typically don't use more than 2 cards in SLI and don't do extreme overclocks. Am I missing something about the boards that gives a performance boost? All I've ever been told is that a good mobo will allow you to Overclock better and will handle heat bettter as well.
 
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There are all sorts of reasons to buy a mobo - match your CPU, use compatible RAM, have SATA 2/3 ports, have USB 2/3 ports, good VRM - no. phases - for fine voltage control and overclocking CPU and Memory, PCie slots, PCie channels, DDR3 channels, Fan control, UEFI, bios change, voltage measurement.
More features like this and you usually only find them on boards with at least 2 PCiE slots. My mobo I can't use the third slot anyway - its too close to my PSU. Most people only use 2 card XFire/SLI. After that the scaling is crap for 1080p. People also want PCie slots for sound cards, sata SSDs, WiFi, etc.
 
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