Spec me an i5 motherboard to get 760 to 4+ghz

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Hey guys,

Can someone spec me an i5 motherboard thats capable of 4+ghz? I want decent value for money if possible, but I don't know if a decent overclocker and good value go together?

How good or bad is the P7P55D-E from asus? Can anyone suggest any other boards?

Thanks
 
Hey,

Up to around £150 but cheaper the better I can spend the saving elsewhere then!

Why did you change from the P7P55D? Did you find it overclocked well for the price?

Thank you for your help.
 
Hey,

I can't find any review of the gigabyte board. It only adds £40 onto the build to use the gigabyte but I want to be certain its as good as the asus board :(
 
The main difference between the £100 region boards and £150 region boards is the expensive ones have sli/x-fire support but the cheaper ones dont. If you're only gonna use a single GPU the cheaper boards like the Asus P7P55D-E or Gigabyte UD3 or USB3 will be fine and clock the CPU to 4GHz no problem. OCUK have used these boards in their 4GHz overclocked bundles so they must be consistent performers. If you want the extra features go for the more expensive boards by all means. The special offer on the UD6 is great as it makes it cheaper than the UD5 and UD4, so a no-brainer which to choose.
 
Liampope said:
The main difference between the £100 region boards and £150 region boards is the expensive ones have sli/x-fire support but the cheaper ones dont. If you're only gonna use a single GPU the cheaper boards like the Asus P7P55D-E or Gigabyte UD3 or USB3 will be fine and clock the CPU to 4GHz no problem. OCUK have used these boards in their 4GHz overclocked bundles so they must be consistent performers. If you want the extra features go for the more expensive boards by all means. The special offer on the UD6 is great as it makes it cheaper than the UD5 and UD4, so a no-brainer which to choose.
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^^^^ what he said
 
I vote P7P55D-E

HAS
USB 3.0
Sata 6
Crossfire Support

HAS NOT
SLI
X16 x16 bandwidth for Crossfire/SLI

I cannot justify an extra £50 for the evo model from Asus as all it has extra is SLI support but you forfit USB3.0 and Sata 6, Which means if you want all these features I would say Gigabyte are your best bet.

The P7P55D-E is a very nice board, stable, well laid out and overclocks well. I have had mine at 4ghz but as I don't need the power reduced the overclock to 3ghz.
 
reilly said:
X16 x16 bandwidth for Crossfire/SLI
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From the research I did before buying my motherboard I thought the i5 couldn't do two 16 lanes in SLI.

I may be wrong though and can only comment that Gigabyte do some very good clocking boards.

I have:
P55A-UD3R - A well specced board with USB3/Sata3 but the 2nd pcie lane only runs at 4x. Essentially a cracking board but not for sli/xfire.
P55-UD5 (brother's rig) - All singing and dancing board but older chipset with no USB3/Sata3
...and both clock to 4ghz with ease.
 
Sorry yes that is right no boards do X16 X16 bandwidth if they are P55. The max they do is X8 X8 and there is only about 1-2% difference in crossfire/sli due to the limited bandwidth on P55 in games .
 
Actually it's about 5% which is still negligible really
There are some real high end boards (UD9 for example) that do x16 otherwise it's either x8/x8 or x16/x4, the former being better and as above what you tend to pay the premium for
 
Hey mate,

Installed all the bits last night and reinstalled windows. I'll try an oc later on today, once I've got all my benchmarking apps back on it! :) Pleased with the quality of the board though, and I love DPD's 1 hour delivery window!:)
 
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