Mpower vs other Motherboards while manually oc'ing

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Calcifer

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Hi guys, I'm new around here and I need some help regarding my soon to come purchase of a new motherboard and cpu. So I have been recommended the MSI Z77 Mpower. Now this was recomended because of how easy it does overclocking.

Now if I were to manually overclock my cpu anyways, does the Mpower have any advantages over other cheaper Z77 motherboards? And if not can anyone recommend a cheap motherboard to me that will not lose in performance to the Mpower?

I also am curious about the new Haswell processors. Will there ever occur a situation were I will not match the settings in a game because I have an Ivy Bridge 3770k instead of whatever Haswell equivalent?

Thank you :)
 
no one here really uses auto overclocks and love the MPower so I would still rate it as a great board.

As for your second question, can't really say until Haswell is here but I would say for gaming highly unlikely. For other more CPU intensive stuff and benchmarking yeah probably a 10% or so difference
 
If you really want to OC, you have to learn how to do that, the motherboard itself will not always give you great results, if you don't know what are you doing, you can also do quite few thing wrong.
Mpower board itself is good board.
About your last question:) Don't worry mate it will be a long time before 3770k will not be able to run, a game...
Have fun with feature overclocking:)
 
Thanks for your replies guys. But If I choose a cheaper board, can it reduce the amount I can get out of my chips? Say if i overclock properly with the Mpower and with a cheaper board. Will there be any difference in the clocks?
 
it all about silicon lottery dude, but on Mpower you will get slightly higher clocks, than some cheap mobos. What motherboard will you be getting?
 
I'm currently going for the mpower. The thing is, if the only "treat" on the mpower was the automatic oc I wouldn't mind going for a cheaper board.
 
GD55 have the same layout as Mpower mate.
Also into what kind of issue you looking for???
You can get 3slot card in CF or SLI, as spacing is correct...
 
Well I saw the specs and it said that GD55 had 2x PCI 3.0 x16 while the Mpower had 3x PCI 3.0 x16 now isn't this the slots where you place your graphics card? And the card i'm buying takes up three slots. Sorry if I'm mistaken. I do not now a lot about this since it will be the first pc that I'm building.
 
A 3 slot card takes up 3 slots worth of room consecutively, not 3 of the plug in slots of the motherboard. ie You will have to remove 3 slots from the back of the case.
 
if it's 100 dollars more i wouldn't bother mate. Basically the lightning cards often have more room for overclocking etc. but you seem relatively new to this so I would stick with the matrix. It's a good card!
 
Do you know how it fares against the Sapphire 7970 Ghz Vapor X? Is the Matrix just better or are they pretty equal? The matrix seems to be a step up from the Ghz in the benches I have seen but is this just because of the higher clock out of the box?
 
Only thing i would recommend with regards to a 7970 is that it's a ghz edition card which from what you've said the matrix is. Personally i would opt for an ASUS card over a sapphire but that's just me
 
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