I am looking to build a decent gaming pc here in the next couple of months. Slowly piecing it together and getting the build I want so when black friday/cyber monday come around, I'll have the cash in case any or all of the parts are on sale.
Looking at my Newegg email today however, I saw that the I5 2500K is on sale and so is the Z68XP-UD3 gigabyte motherboard for the next 42 hours.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128512
I had already decided to buy the I5 as I don't think I care to spend the extra 100$ right now on a small upgrade to a processor and would rather put it elsewhere. I was previously looking at the P67A-UD4-B3 gigabyte board.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128478
My question is, should I not bother with the Z68 board even though right now it is 30$ cheaper than the P67? Will I run into any issues if I use the Z68 board for a gaming rig compared to the P67? The only difference I can see is that maybe the PCI Express 2.0 may not be completely up to speed on the Z68 in comparison to the P67? I read the sticky about gigabyte boards and it didn't really address this. The only issues I have seen are people complaining about the lack of an IDE controller on the Z68 but I have a Sata optical disk drive, so that doesn't matter to me either. The only other issue I saw was one of the boards were quite fickle with anything higher than 1600 speed ram, and I am planning on using the G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1866 speed.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231455
Would this cause any issue with either of these boards?
Looking at my Newegg email today however, I saw that the I5 2500K is on sale and so is the Z68XP-UD3 gigabyte motherboard for the next 42 hours.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128512
I had already decided to buy the I5 as I don't think I care to spend the extra 100$ right now on a small upgrade to a processor and would rather put it elsewhere. I was previously looking at the P67A-UD4-B3 gigabyte board.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128478
My question is, should I not bother with the Z68 board even though right now it is 30$ cheaper than the P67? Will I run into any issues if I use the Z68 board for a gaming rig compared to the P67? The only difference I can see is that maybe the PCI Express 2.0 may not be completely up to speed on the Z68 in comparison to the P67? I read the sticky about gigabyte boards and it didn't really address this. The only issues I have seen are people complaining about the lack of an IDE controller on the Z68 but I have a Sata optical disk drive, so that doesn't matter to me either. The only other issue I saw was one of the boards were quite fickle with anything higher than 1600 speed ram, and I am planning on using the G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1866 speed.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231455
Would this cause any issue with either of these boards?