Which cpu and mobo should i buy?

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Silentkiller424

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I have a gtx 970 and an i5 2400, which is a good budget cpu and budget motherboard that will support SLI? i plant to run 2 gtx 970s together in the future will an i5 3750k bottlenceck SLI gtx 970s?
 
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Both the i5-2400 (your current) & the i5-3570K (unlocked Ivy Bridge that I think you meant instead of "3750K") are LGA 1155. The problem is that it's an older socket -- superceded by LGA 1150, which itself is going to be replaced by LGA 1151 with Skylake -- so you may not want to replace your current board.

If you really, really want to replace your board while sticking with an LGA 1155 CPU, you probably want one with a Z75 or Z77 chipset; both allow for CPU/RAM overclocking & 2-way SLI.
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Both the i5-2400 (your current) & the i5-3570K (unlocked Ivy Bridge that I think you meant instead of "3750K") are LGA 1155. The problem is that it's an older socket -- superceded by LGA 1150, which itself is going to be replaced by LGA 1151 with Skylake -- so you may not want to replace your current board.

If you really, really want to replace your board while sticking with an LGA 1155 CPU, you probably want one with a Z75 or Z77 chipset; both allow for CPU/RAM overclocking & 2-way SLI.
 
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