1150 combo advice. Asus/MSI or Gigabyte?

[uuboy86]

I am coming from an ASRock 4yr old board and an AMD Phenom II x4 9xx CPU

I want to go ASUS/MSI or Gigabyte this time, and want to buy an i7 Haswell chip (cause why not, and cause the mobo and CPU need the most mileage IMHO)

My proposed budget is 250 for a mobo, <300 for CPU and I'm assuming I'll buy some memory to start with (at least 8GB, prolly 16GB leaving room to go 32GB)

Any pros/cons to go one brand over another?

Thanks!

 

[tinytomlogan]

MSI or Gigabyte mate absolute no brainer there tbh.

Look at the Ud4H - UD3h or GD65 Gaming and then team up with vengeance Pro ram like I did below

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/memory/corsair_vengeance_pro_memory/1

 

[uuboy86]

Thanks for your quick reply!

And if I may ask, why you wouldn't equally recommend an ASUS motherboard..?

 

[WillSK]

Asus motherboards will be good but the price/performance ratio will likely be less. Also their mid range boards are gold and ugly at the mo

 

[uuboy86]

Ah, okay! That's why I ask the experts

 

[WillSK]

have you considered the MPower max too. Nice looking board

 

[uuboy86]

I have! and it is a strong contender... Right now I just bought a GTX 670 FTW (upgrading from my radeon HD 5770) and am experiencing lag, which I believe is coming from my 4yr old mobo/cpu/ram... SSD is being used, so the bottleneck is likely in the cpu/ram.

I'm a month or two away from buying, so perhaps the haswells will come down a couple bucks as well...

 

[AverageNinja]

I have! and it is a strong contender... Right now I just bought a GTX 670 FTW (upgrading from my radeon HD 5770) and am experiencing lag, which I believe is coming from my 4yr old mobo/cpu/ram... SSD is being used, so the bottleneck is likely in the cpu/ram.

I'm a month or two away from buying, so perhaps the haswells will come down a couple bucks as well...

In those two months a new motherboards be released out likely, I think it'll be better to judge then, when you are ready to buy

 

[tinytomlogan]

have you considered the MPower max too. Nice looking board

Not really worth the money over the GD65 gaming if youre not planning on overclocking bits to death.

 

[theDTP]

Look at my rig, link in sig and tell me you don't want UD4H and Vengeance Pro

 

[uuboy86]

Should I consider a Corsair Hydro cooler for the fan?

 

[vorticalbox]

Look at my rig, link in sig and tell me you don't want UD4H and Vengeance Pro

can you take that "ultra durable" off? that is the only gripe i have with that board