Need a board for 2500k, z68 or p67

[rcrown]

Hello,
I am looing for a motherboard in the price range of 100-200 dollars to work with a I5 2500K. I was currently looking into a p67 but the z68 board offers the SSD Cache and this I may be interested in to improve boot times of programs, just dont care for on board video. What MB do you think would work good with this cpu, offer easy overclocking, be able to accept two video cards down the line. plus give some other nice feature with out busting the bank. Manufactures Ive looked at ASUS, Gigabyte, Asrock...Models well thats were it gets confusing....
Thank you for your time.
Ron

 

[saint19]

Hi and welcome to Toms' forum.

I'd go with the Z68, the P67 is dead option now.

 

[ern88]

If ya don't need legacy PCI and AGP ports. I recommend the ASUS Maximus IV Gene Z-68 mATX board. I bought it and it has been a great little board. love the BIOS features as well.

 

[wolfram23]

At this point Z68's are widely available for all price ranges. I don't see any reason to not get one.

 

[rcrown]

I was thinking about th asrock extreme3 gen3 board with the 2500k. any flaws with this?

 

[saint19]

I was thinking about th asrock extreme3 gen3 board with the 2500k. any flaws with this?

That's a solid mobo, overclock very well and for a good price.

 

[thesnappyfingers]

+1 to saint19, it is slightly narrower than most boards in its category, and it does not have on board usb 3.0

 

[thesnappyfingers]

You might also want to check this gigabyte board out, pretty good deal, has on board 3.0, more sata3 ports. 119.99 with discount.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128512

Link to toms hardware article about the board
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z68xp-ud3-dz68db,2980-6.html

 

[nordlead]

There are only two differences between Z68 and P67.

1) Integrated Graphics support
2) Intel Smart Response Technology Support

If you don't need either of those, then it doesn't matter which chipset you decide to purchase. Both have the same future upgrade path since they both lack native USB3.0 support, and both support Ivy Bridge (and PCIe3.0).

I have the ASRock Extreme3 Gen3 (currently RMAing it because of bad VRM/Capacitors on arrival). I haven't tried overclocking it yet, but it runs well at stock speeds. Has all the slots and ports I need along with a good future upgrade path if I decide to do that (not likely, but who knows). It has PCIe3.0, Ivy Bridge Support, and USB3.0 on the rear panel which is good enough for me.

 

[pro-gamer]

Hi and welcome to Toms' forum.

I'd go with the Z68, the P67 is dead option now.

completely wrong!

p67 chipset is still alive now! how do you know that p67 is dead now, these chipset are perfect and perform closer as z68 series z68 is the upgraded version of p67 however they have ssd caching,integrated graphics,better video editing or conversion and we all knew that z68 is better but p67 is not a bad choice.

my messege to @ OP get z68

people who having P67 they are very happy with it.but now @op have a best choice of both i suggest asus p8z68 vpro.again p67 is not a bad option.

 

[trihedral]

Z68 if you want SSD Cache. It will boost your HDD's speed by a ton.

Also the onboard graphics would be nice if you suspect fault gpu.

 

[pro-gamer]

yes i know but "saint" mention that p67 is dead now.
Still a live many people are using it

 

[saint19]

If you have for a Z86 mobo, the P67 is a step back for you. I mean that P67 was and is very good, but Z68 gives you much better features for those SB K series and some other features that won't have P67