does msi b85m-g43 support r9 280x?

SuperChil

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The board will accommodate any GPU as long as it has a pcie slot. An unlocked cpu (or as referred to here as the "non k") won't bottneck anything , you would only worry about bottlenecks if you paired it with a lower end processor I.e Pentium and below.
 


The unlocked CPUs are 'K' versions, locked ones are non-K. Unlocked CPUs support OCing, but this board doesn't, no sense in going with K CPUs with B/H MoBos.