Best motherboard for I5 4690 UNDER £100 if possible

OCP95

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Sometimes under 100 GBP, not currently.

It has "garbage" components if you were using an unlocked processor. It's a perfectly acceptable budget board that does everything "well enough". If he didn't spend the extra for an unlocked CPU, I doubt he's going to care about the minor performance hit in 3d graphics. It remains a very good value motherboard.

If you really have an issue with the minor hit to performance, you can...

AdviserKulikov

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Sometimes under 100 GBP, not currently.

It has "garbage" components if you were using an unlocked processor. It's a perfectly acceptable budget board that does everything "well enough". If he didn't spend the extra for an unlocked CPU, I doubt he's going to care about the minor performance hit in 3d graphics. It remains a very good value motherboard.

If you really have an issue with the minor hit to performance, you can stay under budget with these boards instead.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz97xsli (powerful overclocking, very underwhelming stock performance)
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz97xgaming5 (better out of the box)
 
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