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[siravarice]

Gonna be buying an i5 750 soon (ish) and would like to know what motherboard to get. Budget is £150.

Was looking at the EVGA 132-LF-P55. Apparently it's a very nice overclocker. Also, what stepping is the 750 on now?

 

[vesley]

isn't just one type of stepping for the 750 out ?

 

[AMDFTW]

B1 is the only stepping out ATM bit of a wait till other steppings

 

[siravarice]

Ok cheers, what about mobo's?

 

[AMDFTW]

these are meant to be good,just whent for the one in ur price range mate

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus...DDR3-2200(OC)-USB-30-SATA-6Gb-s-SATA-RAID-ATX

or

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Gigabyte-GA-P55-UD5-Intel-P55-Motherboard

 

[killablade]

MSI's GD-65 is a great motherboard for the price.

Link

Would save you some money aswell at 130

 

[siravarice]

MMmm looks nice, but so does that new Trinergy mobo. If I could stretch my budget I would get one of those ><

 

[AMDFTW]

i would stick with ASUS IMO or evga you could get ither of there top end for less

 

[mpavao81]

For that price range my vote would go to the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5. Or for a little bit more the asus maximus III formula is nice to.

 

[siravarice]

I'll have a think about the maximus. But I either want a black or green colour scheme. I want all green LEDS to be put in the case and replace any blues ones I have in my keyboard/mouse.

 

[Skorchio]

Let me know how you get on with replacing you keyboard LEDS, i want to do the same thing

 

[siravarice]

Well was just thinking of buying one that has green ones in It shouldn't be too hard though, simply just taking off the old ones and making sure the new ones are the same size etc. Then soldering them back on.

 

[AMDFTW]

make sure its the NEW i5's 32nm not much more cash some ppl have got theres to 4Ghz (old 750) new i5's unsure mate ile have a scout for a review

 

[siravarice]

Don't they have a smaller L3 cache? It's like half the size.

 

[AMDFTW]

not sure mate,I just see the smaller die size almost 10nm so that will decrese temps and enhance overclocking and ime not sure what the onboard GPU does maybe for PhysX who knows just seems a better buy IMO

 

[siravarice]

I'll have a look at them. Overclocking them may actually be harder. I haven't seen many overclocking reviews on them yet. I have till May so I have plenty of time to wait and see.

 

[AMDFTW]

yer i tried to find some for you,i no they go over 5Ghz on LN2 lmao