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tommytucks

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Hey,

I have been looking around and am struggling to find any Gigabyte or Asus Mobos for my Intel i7 3770 CPU (1155 socket). I have seen the Z77 D3H from gigabyte but cannot seem to find anywhere to purchase it!

Just wondering if you guys could help me out with another Mobo that is good for gaming? Dont plan on Oclocking as im new to all of this.

Specs will be:
NZXT 410 Phantom Case
Hyper Fury 2x 16Gb Ram DDR3 (I think)
i7 3770 CPU
Geforce 660 GTX GPU
Hard Drive I need to buy.
PSU I also need to buy but i thinking of an EVGA one (550W)

Thanks :)
 
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"M" or Micro-ATX, is not really desirable for an SLI or Crossfire configuration in most situations as the PCIe slot spacing and overall thermal capacity of those boards is often not as good as a full size ATX board. In some cases, depending on the card with and cooler style, they may not even accommodate dual cards in the necessary slots at all. For smaller cards they may work but there are many two slot cards that won't work on some mATX boards.

I would avoid a small board if you plan to use dual cards.


I personally don't see anything decent that's available for a realistic price with a Z77 socket aside from the ASRock board mentioned above. Local retailer stock may be a different story but for the most part those are now several...
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This is the best I found and the price is really good-

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($139.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $139.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-13 03:33 EDT-0400
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You could use B75 board if not overclocking-

https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/compare/asus-motherboard-p8b75mcsm%2Cgigabyte-motherboard-gab75md3h%2Cgigabyte-motherboard-gab75mhd3/
 
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tommytucks

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The Gigabyte B75 board? It's only to run WoW which does'nt require much anyway! Think it was the EVGA 550 GS I was looking at :)

Not bothered about overclocking Darkbreeze so you recommend that ASRock board too or the B75 Gig?

Thanks :)

 
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Ah, I missed that at the bottom of your post. My bad.

What speed and voltage are your memory modules? If they are over 1600mhz they will not be compatible. If you don't have any plans to use dual graphics cards in SLI or Crossfire, unlocked processors for overclocking or RAM over 1600mhz, then the B75 boards should be fine.
 
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Ideally I'd like a board which supports SLI just in case I decide to add another Graphics card in future! Just makes sense to me. Z77 D3H from Gigabyte was my other option. Ram is 8GB 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM (Kit of 2) HyperX Fury Black Series but I can change as I haven't bought yet :)

I have just seen the H77M D3H which seems good?
 
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"M" or Micro-ATX, is not really desirable for an SLI or Crossfire configuration in most situations as the PCIe slot spacing and overall thermal capacity of those boards is often not as good as a full size ATX board. In some cases, depending on the card with and cooler style, they may not even accommodate dual cards in the necessary slots at all. For smaller cards they may work but there are many two slot cards that won't work on some mATX boards.

I would avoid a small board if you plan to use dual cards.


I personally don't see anything decent that's available for a realistic price with a Z77 socket aside from the ASRock board mentioned above. Local retailer stock may be a different story but for the most part those are now several generations back and are getting pretty scarce. It's actually rather surprising to find there are still some major vendors with any stock of Z77 boards at all. The fact is, I think that motherboard OEM's get incentivized to stop producting boards for older hardware at some point to focus sales on current and possibly last generation products. They want to sell you their new stuff, not keep making old stuff. Tough love for those with older hardware that just need replacement parts but that's the way it works.
 
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