best budget motherboard

leekulet

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whats the best budget motherboard thats compatible with a 1866mhz ram? i'll be pairing it with an i5 4460 and will not be doing any overclocking.
 
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Any cheap Z97 board will do, H97 doesn't support higher than 1600 Mhz. You should get DDR3-2133/2400 though it makes a difference in open world games. If you haven't got the i5-4460 I would suggest i5-6400 with the cheapest Z170 board and DDR4-2800Mhz RAM.

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Any cheap Z97 board will do, H97 doesn't support higher than 1600 Mhz. You should get DDR3-2133/2400 though it makes a difference in open world games. If you haven't got the i5-4460 I would suggest i5-6400 with the cheapest Z170 board and DDR4-2800Mhz RAM.
 
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