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What would be the best gaming motherboard for overclocking this custom build?
I am currently building my first ever PC, and I will be using a custom water loop with EK waterblocks & Acrylic and Bitspower fittings. I am fairly new to all this and just wanted to make sure I have the best motherboard for this hardware combo. Any ideas or changes to the build please post to help me out.

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a c 121 K Overclocking
a c 283 4 Gaming
a c 376 V Motherboard
October 15, 2014 6:18:48 PM

BeginnerBob said:
i7Baby said:
Don't do a custom loop on your first build. Build it and use it for a month then decide whether to update the cooling.

Get a Haswell refresh CPU, not the i7 4770K For gaming the i5 n4690k would be fine and $100 cheaper.

Try an EVGA Supernova 750 Gold PSU ($115) instead.

Get a Corsair K70 instead of the Razer KB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...


Why not watercooling? I don't want to spend money on something I will be replacing rather quickly.


Exactly - if you want reliability, then do do custom watercooling. There's no need. Try it without to start with.

October 15, 2014 6:02:43 PM

Yeah I will be using an acrylic tubing build. Once loop is filled i'll just run it for a couple hours and watch for any leaks, afterwards it's just standard maintenance. I am also building this case to have some future proof, and possibly adding in another GTX 980 for SLI config. Which is why I was wondering about the motherboard.
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October 15, 2014 4:57:51 PM

Like I said their no reason to get anything over what I listed those chips hit a wall and you would at the max get a 0.1 or 0.2GHz higher overclock.
For the custom water I hope you know how much maintenance is going to be required about 2 times a year your going to need to drain the system clean it out and refill.
I would put this right next to your PC at a much lower price and beat your gaming performance.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4jdgCJ
October 15, 2014 4:32:26 PM

babernet_1 said:
First of all, change over to the I7-4790K. It costs about $5 extra and has better packaging so you can overclock it better because it runs cooler and you don't get "hot cores."

I think the ASUS VII Hero Z97 will overclock as well and be cheaper.



I changed the processor, but how will the VII Hero fair agains't the EVGA Z97 Classified with overclocking?
October 15, 2014 4:26:05 PM

i7Baby said:
Don't do a custom loop on your first build. Build it and use it for a month then decide whether to update the cooling.

Get a Haswell refresh CPU, not the i7 4770K For gaming the i5 n4690k would be fine and $100 cheaper.

Try an EVGA Supernova 750 Gold PSU ($115) instead.

Get a Corsair K70 instead of the Razer KB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...


Why not watercooling? I don't want to spend money on something I will be replacing rather quickly.
a c 121 K Overclocking
a c 283 4 Gaming
a c 376 V Motherboard
October 15, 2014 4:17:26 PM

Don't do a custom loop on your first build. Build it and use it for a month then decide whether to update the cooling.

Get a Haswell refresh CPU, not the i7 4770K For gaming the i5 n4690k would be fine and $100 cheaper.

Try an EVGA Supernova 750 Gold PSU ($115) instead.

Get a Corsair K70 instead of the Razer KB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
a b K Overclocking
a b 4 Gaming
a b V Motherboard
October 15, 2014 4:14:24 PM

First of all, change over to the I7-4790K. It costs about $5 extra and has better packaging so you can overclock it better because it runs cooler and you don't get "hot cores."

I think the ASUS VII Hero Z97 will overclock as well and be cheaper.

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