Mobo for Xeon e3-1230 v3 gaming rig?

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Brendan_14

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As title says, I'm upgrading. It's my first Intel switch over, and I'm slightly unsure of my understanding of the whole B85, H87, Z87 thing (I get the basic stuff, but Idk about reliability and so on that comes from experience. Dunno how many times I've read that Puget Systems article.)

I'm currently looking at this, but I guess I'm looking for recommendations or validation.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157372

Again, it's for an upgraded gaming machine. I'm not OCing (Xeon don't OC) or editing video. I'm planning on attaching a 1tb HDD and 250gb SSD to it, so the side-facing sata ports are nice.

I currently own an AsRock and never bought into the whole, xfast<component> thing, so that's not in my reasoning. It's just a good price since I want to try and keep it all under $125-130


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Hello... I got my e3-1240 v2 for $200 on EBAY, and you don't have to use just ECC memory with them, Non ECC memory works just fine with a 1155 MB... I get i7 3770 performance but no IGT on board... at a great price option.
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Hello... Here is a WIKI chart to explain the differences... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150
A Q87 H87 and Z87 will give you the most SATA 3 and USB3 ports.
I currently use a Gigabyte Q77 with my e3-1240 v2 because of the physical audio connections on it, and because of conventional PCI support... they can be found on EBAY "Buy it Now" from most major suppiers for $130.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Gigabyte-GA-Q87M-D2H-Desktop-Motherboard-Intel-Q87-Express-Chipset-Socke-/360866750023?pt=Motherboards&hash=item5405559e47
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Asus-Q87M-E-Desktop-Motherboard-Intel-Q87-Express-Chipset-Socket-H3-LGA-/161248676880?pt=Motherboards&hash=item258b2b8c10
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FREE-SHIP-ASRock-Q87M-VPRO-ASM-LGA1150-Intel-Q87-DDR3-SATA3-USB3-0-A-GbE-/221285186618?pt=Motherboards&hash=item33859ffc3a
These are uatx examples of the Q87 search results.
A H87 will have more Full size ATX MB options.
 
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That chart makes things so much easier. Thank you for the suggestions, but I guess I should have added I was looking for an ATX board. I'm putting it into a source 530.

Much appreciated though.
 
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Why use a Xeon E3 if you're not going to use ECC memory? For the same price, you can get a Core i7-4770 (non-K, non-overclocking) and get a few hundred extra MHz in the deal. If you want the ECC, then go for a C222 motherboard.
 
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uhh, i7-4770 is $60 more.

I get the same performance minus the price and the IGPU (don't need it, have my dedicated card).
 
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ok, but the 4670 is $20 cheaper and 100MHz faster, while the Xeon has hyperthreading, which doesn't help all that much, and ECC, which doesn't help in desktop work at all. you may not need the iGPU (you can turn it off if you want) but it can be handy for transcoding even if you don't use it for display purposes. The Xeons cost more because they're geared and priced toward the server market. They use the exact same die as the Core i5 and i7.
 
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I'm planning on using the xeon for a watch dogs rig, which is calling for high end, HT cpus. I'm not using it to do any work, it's just for gaming and daily driving.

Anyway, point of the thread wasn't to argue my cpu, I was looking for mobo suggestions.
 
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