Does it matter if I buy the 40$ motherboard instead of the 100$+ gaming motherboard?

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I plan to build an intel rig - but what's up with the 100$+ motherboards?

I just don't get whats in it for it to cost so much more?

I understand it has that "overclocking features" etc.. but aside from that will I gain additional gaming performance without the need of overclocking if I buy the 100$+ mobos?
 
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I have an I5 3570 running on the cheapest MB i could find at the time, a ASrock BTC H61 Pro, gave 50$ and thou it miss some features, it has run my rig with my (first R9 280x) and now a Rx 480 GPU with absolutly no errors for about 3 years now, and i played BF1, CoD WW2, and others with 40+fps.
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I am going to buy a 2nd hand i5 4570 for 90$ then this motherboard which cost only 42$ to be exact in my country.
EMAXX IH81LTX-ICAFE, 1150, DDR3, 5CH, VGA, HDMI, Micro-ATX
 
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Here is the motherboard I would get - EMAXX IH81LTX-ICAFE, 1150, DDR3, 5CH, VGA, HDMI, Micro-ATX
 
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Will it give me significant FPS boost on games?

I have bought a basic AMD board which cost me less than 50$ - played crysis 3 on it
with amd fx 4300 and HD 4670 1gb Video card
 
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It alone won't give you a fps boost unless you overclock.
 
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As far as FPS goes, a higher end motherboard isn't going to make much of a difference, especially if you're not overclocking. It's possible that a higher end board could be more stable, but there are plenty of lower end motherboards that will work fine as well (I'm not familiar with that particular brand though). And of course this board has limited expansion options, like only one PCIe X16 slot for a video card and another 1x slot, and two RAM slots, which could potentially limit future upgrades, but might not be a problem for you.
 
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I just want to play battlefield 1 in 1080p + ultra settings with 40+ FPS and I'm happy
 
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Looking at the EMaxx board... Low quality caps, 2+1 phase power delivery without cooling, no special features... Pretty much the bare minimum to make Haswell cpu run.
Even the cheapest lga1150 board listed on pcpp (The MSI H81M-P33) looks high end compared to that.
 
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As long as you have a gpu that draws most of it's power through a separate pcie power connector, good airflow in your case and clean the dust from the there regularly and it should be fine.
 
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will 1050TI be a problem? it draws its power from the motherboard?
 
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I think it's ok.
 
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I have an I5 3570 running on the cheapest MB i could find at the time, a ASrock BTC H61 Pro, gave 50$ and thou it miss some features, it has run my rig with my (first R9 280x) and now a Rx 480 GPU with absolutly no errors for about 3 years now, and i played BF1, CoD WW2, and others with 40+fps.
 
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