Hey everyone,
I'm building a micro atx build with the aforementioned 4770 (non-k) and Powercolor R9 290. Now I had my choices narrowed down to the Asus h87m-e, but after reading this review,
http://www.legitreviews.com/powercolor-pcs-axr9-290x-video-card-review_138422
it says that the backplate on the 290 gives it clearance problems with motherboards that have the memory slots placed close to the PCI slot (it will not fit if the PCI and memory slots are right up against each other), which seems to be most of the boards out there. And looking at the pictures of the Asus board, it definitely looks like they are right next to each other.
So after looking at all the boards available to me (I'm in South Korea so not everything is available here or are crazy expensive), it looks like the Gigabyte h87m-hd3 is the only one with clearance for the gpu and ram, but from what I read it seems like an inferior board. I'm even willing to go z87m if possible, but would like to keep my budget to less than $130. I will not be needing crossfire/sli, but just want a solid board that will be able to handle the 290 and 4770 and that has some clearance between the pci x16 3.0 slot and the memory slots.
Sorry for the long post, thanks for any help in advance!
I'm building a micro atx build with the aforementioned 4770 (non-k) and Powercolor R9 290. Now I had my choices narrowed down to the Asus h87m-e, but after reading this review,
http://www.legitreviews.com/powercolor-pcs-axr9-290x-video-card-review_138422
it says that the backplate on the 290 gives it clearance problems with motherboards that have the memory slots placed close to the PCI slot (it will not fit if the PCI and memory slots are right up against each other), which seems to be most of the boards out there. And looking at the pictures of the Asus board, it definitely looks like they are right next to each other.
So after looking at all the boards available to me (I'm in South Korea so not everything is available here or are crazy expensive), it looks like the Gigabyte h87m-hd3 is the only one with clearance for the gpu and ram, but from what I read it seems like an inferior board. I'm even willing to go z87m if possible, but would like to keep my budget to less than $130. I will not be needing crossfire/sli, but just want a solid board that will be able to handle the 290 and 4770 and that has some clearance between the pci x16 3.0 slot and the memory slots.
Sorry for the long post, thanks for any help in advance!
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