Recommended motherboard for intel i5

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finalgear14

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I was wondering if anyone could tell me what a good motherboard is for an intel i5 4670k i plan to upgrade to one but cannot decide what a good motherboard would be. I'll spend up to 150$ if it is worth it.
Also when running sli will one card being in a 8x slot and one card in a 16x slot be slower than if both were in 16x? This is for dual 770s. Thanks for any help.
Current specs
amd fx 6300
gigabyte gtx 770 4gb
8gb ram
MSI 970A-g46
Corsair TX 750
Thermaltake commander mid tower
1tb hdd
Crucial m500 240gb ssd
 
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maktovic
Asus Z97/Z87-A LGA 1150, good choice for overclocking i5 4670k without paying heavy premium.

Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z97a

As for now Graphics card are not even able to fully saturate PCIe x16 2.0, so you won't have any problem in GTX 770 SLI ( since bandwidth of PCIe x16 2.0 is equal to PCIe x8 3.0)

Also i5 4670k/4690k support maximum of 16 PCIe lanes, and for SLI each Nvidia card requires minimum 8 lanes whether it is PCIe 2.0 or 3.0, so its either single GTX 770 in PCIe x16 3.0 mode or 2-way SLI GTX 770 in PCIe x8 3.0 mode each. You can't run one GTX 770 in x16 mode and other in x8 mode in SLI or both in x16 mode in SLI with i5 4670k ( as maximum PCIe lanes supported by CPU...
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Asus Z97/Z87-A LGA 1150, good choice for overclocking i5 4670k without paying heavy premium.

Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z97a

As for now Graphics card are not even able to fully saturate PCIe x16 2.0, so you won't have any problem in GTX 770 SLI ( since bandwidth of PCIe x16 2.0 is equal to PCIe x8 3.0)

Also i5 4670k/4690k support maximum of 16 PCIe lanes, and for SLI each Nvidia card requires minimum 8 lanes whether it is PCIe 2.0 or 3.0, so its either single GTX 770 in PCIe x16 3.0 mode or 2-way SLI GTX 770 in PCIe x8 3.0 mode each. You can't run one GTX 770 in x16 mode and other in x8 mode in SLI or both in x16 mode in SLI with i5 4670k ( as maximum PCIe lanes supported by CPU are 16 only)
 
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finalgear14

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Thats good to know as i was also going to ask if it would even work to have one in a 8x slot while the other is in a 16x slot. Can it still be in the x16 slot and just use it as an 8x or do they both have to be in a 8x?

 
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