Which mobo ?

marco

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Hi, I will soon be buying a 4770k, problem - I haven't used Intel for years and I am no longer familiar with their sockets and chipsets, I have done some research but went cross-eyed when I saw how many chipsets are available for socket 1150.
I will prolly have a budget of £100 and insist on gigabyte only for now, I am not interested in sli / crossfire as I believe in using only a single strong gpu, but will need a decent bios for overclocking, so the question is - what would be the best chipset for the requirements and budget ?

thx in advance.
 
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If you already spent on a Gigabyte board I'd say the GA-Z87X-UD3H just under your £100 budget and has everything you need.

Or the GA-Z97M-DS3H

 
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Z87 and Z97 on 1150 isn't it?

I've got a wee rig with a Pentium Anniversary in it but never did boot it up for a play lol.
 
Z87 and Z97 on 1150 isn't it?

I've got a wee rig with a Pentium Anniversary in it but never did boot it up for a play lol.

Yes but the z87 boards will need to update the bios in order for the haswell refresh cpus to work on them (The PentiumK included)
 
What is Pentium Anniversary ?

The Pentium G3258 is a chip that was released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pentium line-up. It's a special chip as it is the only one that can be overclocked, which is very easy because of its low power draw.

If it overclocks nicely, it can give performance similar to that of an i5 or i7 in games that only use 2 cores, as that is all it has. All that for £50 makes it a pretty attractive chip.



Since your CPU is an original Haswell and not the Refresh (4790k), it will work natively with any Z87 motherboard, although they might be difficult to find by now and there really isn't any reason not to go Z97 :)
 
Yeah and then you put it up next to a CPU with six cores and bench it and it looks like what is is, a toy.

I've got one. My FX 6300 absolutely stomps on it. Too little too late sadly. Had it been an I3 it would have had bigger teeth but thread it and it falls on its face :(
 
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