Help choosing a motherboard?

Naicheervan Abbas · Jun 8, 2014

I'd like advice on which motherboard to go for with my rig:

Case: Zalman Z11 Plus Mid Tower
HDD: Western Digital 3.5" HDD
CPU: Intel i5 4670k 3.4GHz
PSU: Corsair 750W modular 80 plus
RAM: G-Skill Ripjaw 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866MHz
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Graphics: Asus/EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 OR Sapphire AMD R9 290 Tri-x
Motherboard: Don't know which one.

Opinions on the GPU choice would be helpful too guys

Thanks for any advice!

maktovic · Jun 8, 2014

Motherboard→ASUS Z97/Z87-A LGA 1150. Great choice for overclocking i5 4670k

GTX 780 outperforms R9 290 and performs on the par with R9 290x. GTX 780 & R9 290 also have a big price difference and both are great cards in their price range.

Seems like you'r choosing reference GTX 780, in that case I'll recommend Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X. Reference boards become very loud and hot at high loads.

Naicheervan Abbas · Jun 8, 2014

maktovic :

Well which non-reference 780 would you recommend? Out of your 780 recommendation and the 290 Tri-x which would be your personal choice? Thanks for the motherboard suggestion btw.

Dark Lord of Tech · Jun 8, 2014

Change out the poor power supply.

Naicheervan Abbas · Jun 8, 2014

Oh, yeah I have done, I just forgot to update it on my list

maktovic · Jun 8, 2014

GTX 780 vs R9 290→ If budget is not the issue then GTX 780 would be my choice.

TechPowerUp's measured temperatures during their review of the following GeForce GTX 780 cards:

NVIDIA Reference Design GeForce GTX 780 3 GB Card
Temperatures: Idle 37°C, Load 81°C, Load + OC 81°C

ASUS GTX 780 DirectCU II OC 3 GB
Temperatures: Idle 35°C, Load 67°C, Load + OC 68°C

MSI GTX 780 TwinFrozr Gaming 3 GB
Temperatures: Idle 30°C, Load 73°C, Load + OC 76°C

Gigabyte GTX 780 WindForce OC 3 GB
Temperatures: Idle 37°C, Load 72°C, Load + OC 74°C

EVGA GTX 780 Superclocked w/ ACX Cooler 3 GB
Temperatures: Idle 34°C, Load 74°C, Load + OC 76°C

For Nvidia cards-Asus,MSI, Giagabyte, EVGA are good to go brands. Judging by the temperature chart Asus DirectCU maintains lowest temperature, so that will be first preference. Otherwise choose whichever is cheapest preferably from Asus, MSI & Gigabyte

Tradesman1 · Jun 8, 2014

I'd look to the Z87-A from Asus, and their 780 CU model, great GPU, OCs very well and runs cool even w/ high OC

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