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msi z97 gaming 3 is a good motherboard?

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June 22, 2014 7:07:02 AM

i m thinking of buying this new Z97 gaming 3 msi motherboard and its in my budget...msi gaming 5 or 7 is out of my budget....i m hoping to use it with an i5-4670k which i might overclock in future thats why taking k series....so i want to know if this is a good choice or is there any other good motherboard compared to this one.

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June 22, 2014 7:38:52 AM

Unless you want a SLI setup in the future, it would be a decent choice for the price.

I don't know how much you want to push your cpu with overclocking but it will do the job unless you want to push the limits. It has relatively weaker vrm compared the gaming 5 and 7. But this is normal for this price range. It has 3 true phase analog pwm doubled to 6. I'm not sure about the mosfets since I haven't seen the board myself. But probably it's some decent low rds (on) mosfets like the previous generation msi z87-g43 gaming board. I know some people who hit 4.6-4.7 GHz without a problem on a z87-g43 (with good water cooler of course) so you might expect around the same performance. But note that at these frequencies and voltages the vrm will run hot since there will be some serious load on it. Also the cpu overclocking is mostly a silicon lottery. You can buy a 400 bucks motherboard but if you are not lucky with your cpu you might be stucked around 4.2-4.3ghz.

All in all it's a good board for the price. Has a good onboard audio solution, crossfire support, m.2 slot etc, good build quality etc...

But if you want to play safe and have a better vrm I'd suggest a MSI gaming 5 or Gigabyte gaming 5.
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June 22, 2014 9:50:24 AM

feelingtheblanks said:
Unless you want a SLI setup in the future, it would be a decent choice for the price.

I don't know how much you want to push your cpu with overclocking but it will do the job unless you want to push the limits. It has relatively weaker vrm compared the gaming 5 and 7. But this is normal for this price range. It has 3 true phase analog pwm doubled to 6. I'm not sure about the mosfets since I haven't seen the board myself. But probably it's some decent low rds (on) mosfets like the previous generation msi z87-g43 gaming board. I know some people who hit 4.6-4.7 GHz without a problem on a z87-g43 (with good water cooler of course) so you might expect around the same performance. But note that at these frequencies and voltages the vrm will run hot since there will be some serious load on it. Also the cpu overclocking is mostly a silicon lottery. You can buy a 400 bucks motherboard but if you are not lucky with your cpu you might be stucked around 4.2-4.3ghz.

All in all it's a good board for the price. Has a good onboard audio solution, crossfire support, m.2 slot etc, good build quality etc...

But if you want to play safe and have a better vrm I'd suggest a MSI gaming 5 or Gigabyte gaming 5.


thnx for ur reply i alrdy have a gigabyte r9 270x so i might do crossfire in future n this board can do crossfire as said on their site
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June 22, 2014 10:56:53 AM

MSI Z97 Gaming 3 is one of the best motherboards for i5-4690K..
It is overclockable, and it has Crossfire support !
Or
ASUS Z97 A is the secondary option !
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z97A/

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