[Solved] Need help immediately (Mobo for LGA1155 socket)

hey i am going to build a sandybridge based rig and so i need a nice gaming grade mobo and its recommended memory ..

My config is as below...

1. Intel core i7 2600k
2. Mobo as per your suggestions
3. RAM as per your suggestions
4. Corsair GS800 PSU
5. Nzxt Guardian 921RB Case
6. Msi n560 GTX Ti TwinFrozerII/OC

Any rectifications or upgrade in my above listed config is happily appreciated so please quote some suggestions for my board and memory or any upgrade.

Thank you all

there are some more questions fluctuating my mind... intel is going to release its x79 chipset in the second half of this year..

1. so what the heck happened to x68 ??
2. will x79 chipset support the same sandy bridge processor(i5 2500k, i7 2600k and all that) that i am going to use with a p67 chipset ??
3. is sandybridge same as sandy bridge-E??
4. any ideas about the expected prices of x79 chipset ..??
Please do answer..

ANS:
1. Looks like the X68 is going to be skipped for the Z79. Intel
2. No, the Z79 is for the LGA 2011; the current Sandy Bridge CPUs are LGA 1155
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_ [...] s_chipsets
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy [...] processors
3. No, the E is Extreme.
4. The best guess is +$200~+$300 LGA 2011 vs LGA 1155. Recently Intel added a 4-core to the LGA 2011 line.

This is subject to change. I'd expect the launch of LGA 2011 in mid-November to December.

You know they'll have to have the $1,000 CPU it wouldn't be Intel not to stick it to you!

@ Leaps-from-Shadows - I 'hoped' PCIe 3.0, and I've seen the PCIe listed both ways as 2.x AND as 3.x, but in both cases x32 PCIe lanes The cool but expensive thing is Quad Channel, break your VISA with 8X8GB even 8X4GB $400+. However, the QPI is the link between multiple CPUs.

However, I still think we're screwed with CPU Ratio dullness. Raise the Ratio + up the Vcore +0.1~+0.2v -- boring!

Here's the real crazy - you need either the LGA 1356 or LGA 2011 to get the 32-lanes, BUT using 6/6 or 8/8 does zip for Gaming so recently Intel added a 4/4, but the i5-2500K is the perfect Gaming CPU. In other words buying the 6 or 8 core does you no good. VERY FEW Games see much less use more than 2-cores and Hyper-Threading is ignored.

i initially heard of x68 but later news stated that it was skipped.... but i was confused... and when i was building this config then i came to know about a z68 chipset that was a combo of both p67 and h67 as .. both p67 and h67 lacks in GPU OC and CPU OC respectively..... so i was just waiting and sorting out the release date of z68 as a replacement for p67/h67 and then i was stucked between these terms...

1. Sandy bridge -E
2. X79
3. Ivy bridge..

everything made me to think once more... i have concluded this ..

1. x79 chipset is for ivybridge
2. Sandybridge-E will be using x79 most probably sharing the same socket with ivybridge
3. z68 is for LGA1155 socket..

Please correct me if i am wrong....

Ivy bridge is the die shrink of sandy bridge, referring to the sandy bridge architecture including sb mainstream and sb enthusiast. Ivy bridge mainstream is supposed to be compatible with current 1155 mobos but no concrete info is out about its chipset as it will most likely come out 2013 q1. So don't even worry about ivy bridge right now.

Apparently, SB-E's memory controller will automatically throttle memory down to a certain speed if more than one stick per channel is used. Some of the manufacturers are likely going to have four-slot configs because of this. Why have more when it will only make performance worse not better?

This here article gives me hope as to the overclocking situation for SB-E. The good stuff starts in the middle of the second paragraph below the picture. Oh, and it's DMI/BCLK, not QPI/BCLK ... I mis-remembered it.

From what I've read, all SB-Es have HyperThreading. So they would have 4/8, 6/12, and 8/16 versions. I haven't yet laid eyes on an article stating the existence of an eight-core version, but others apparently have as I've seen it mentioned in other threads. Of course, I may have missed an article here or there, as there seem to be hundreds or thousands of them floating around.

Best answer selected by himanshuas2711.

lol I misunderstood the 4/4, 6/6, and 8/8 terms you were using, which is why I mentioned HyperThreading at all.

And I firmly believe that Intel was screwing with us when they moved the clock generator internally on the SB-MS processors. It's just as easy for them to have external clock generators and locked PCIe/PCI/SATA/USB/etc frequencies like they have in previous generations of CPUs/boards. They didn't have to do it, which is why I believe the article I linked.

Intel is going to have boards with eight memory slots, but MSI (and probably the other manufacturers) is going to have at least some boards with only four slots. That's why I said something about the four-slot config. I read in the same article that the memory controller will throttle down when you install more than four sticks, which is the reason for the MSI and others to only have four slots.