Which Mobo for This Build?
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Hey all,
I had what I thought was a perfect £1000 gaming build, but then someone on the forum mentioned a couple of bad experiences with Gigabyte motherboards, and now I'm paralysed by choice!
Initially I was just going to go for the cheapest Z77 board I could find with Crossfire support and enough slots to give me room to expand in the future, which was the Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H. Now I'm wondering if it'll be worth spending a bit more, so any advice on features/quality/cost-effectiveness will be gratefully received.
The build the board will have to support is this:
Intel Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz Socket 1155 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor - £180.80
Crucial 128GB M4 SSD - 2.5" SATA-III - Read 500MB/s Write 175MB/s - 3 Year Warranty £86.99
Seagate 2TB BARRACUDA 3.5" SATA-III Hard Drive - 7200RPM 64MB Cache £85.00
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W Modular PSU Single 12V Rail 135mm Fan £64.29
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium w/SP1 - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit £68.44
Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000 - BlueTrack £32.99
Antec 120mm TrueQuiet Fan £8.60
Antec 1100 Eleven Hundred Case £86.99
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz CL9 1.5V Non-ECC Unbuffered £38.99
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 Socket 775, 1156, 1155, 1366, AM2, AM3 Heatpipe CPU Cooler £14.38
Sapphire HD 7850 OC Edition 2GB GDDR5 HDMI DVI Dual Mini DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card £208.98
Sony AD-7261S 24x DVD±RW DL & RAM with LightScribe SATA - OEM Black £14.99
Many thanks!
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If I did the math correctly summing up all your parts to ~ £805, that leaves about £195 for your motherboard. Sounds like a good budget too.
I think you can not go wrong with this: MSI Z77A-GD65 @ £148.98
http://www.ebuyer.com/345316-msi-z77a-gd65-z77-socket-1...
It is one of the selected z77 motherboards in recent Tom's hardware z77 face off.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z77-extreme6-z77a-g...
I think you can not go wrong with this: MSI Z77A-GD65 @ £148.98
http://www.ebuyer.com/345316-msi-z77a-gd65-z77-socket-1...
It is one of the selected z77 motherboards in recent Tom's hardware z77 face off.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z77-extreme6-z77a-g...
It's more like £885 at the moment, so I was mainly wondering whether to go for a £150 low-mid-range mobo like the one you suggested, or stick with scratching around the £100 mark high-end-budget.
Will I see much appreciable difference in performance/stability/upgradability for my extra £50?
I was actually thinking of choosing either the Asrock extreme 4 or 6, but that MSI looks pretty neat.
Will I see much appreciable difference in performance/stability/upgradability for my extra £50?
I was actually thinking of choosing either the Asrock extreme 4 or 6, but that MSI looks pretty neat.
I bought the extreme4
Very solid and booted it up first time, no problems.
If planning on running dual graphics cards the the extreme 6 might be worth the extra though, I doubt that any current gen graphics card could come close to saturating Pcie bandwidth.
It's of a decent quality for a great value price.
My $0.02
Very solid and booted it up first time, no problems.
If planning on running dual graphics cards the the extreme 6 might be worth the extra though, I doubt that any current gen graphics card could come close to saturating Pcie bandwidth.
It's of a decent quality for a great value price.
My $0.02
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