Which 1155 board £150 budget ?

stulid · 19 Jan 2012 at 11:16

masscrazy said:
Please explain what you mean by 'at the moment', x8x8 in 2 years time affect performance?

As RJC said, don't worry about it, the new ATI 7970 card has been test on PCI-E2.0 vs 3.0 and the difference was like zilch.

Stoner81 · 19 Jan 2012 at 11:40

^^ I saw a TTL about it and there was hardly anything in it at all, there was some difference but nothing even worth bothering about really. The 7970 is just a monster of a card regardless of the socket it is in.

Stoner81.

IvanDobskey · 19 Jan 2012 at 15:07

Elevon said:
I've the Asus V/GEN3, great board IMHO,excellent UEFI bios with loads of overclocking options etc... also having a Intel NIC is another plus point in my books.

I second this

cracking board in my opinion.

Andy_1995 · 19 Jan 2012 at 23:20

RJC said:
I have the UD4 version of the Gigabyte and not got any issues, all seems to be going ok

Nice work on the watercooling.

Raiden82 · 20 Jan 2012 at 02:09

Asrock one seems very good at a good price and nice looks that goes well with a corsair 500r white, as soon as i get rid of the ton of hardware i have i'll get one to go with a 2500k, thanks for the advice guys.

Raiden82 · 20 Jan 2012 at 02:18

One last question.. watching vids of the board now i realize there's not much room at the top of the cpu socket, will it fit an artic cooling freezer 13 pro?

djay · 20 Jan 2012 at 09:53

IvanDobskey said:
I second this cracking board in my opinion.

3rd this, unfortunately I have got to RMA my ASrock as it has a dodgy slot and also the onboard sound is borked. Other than that it 'was' a fantastic board.

Purchased the ASUS Z68-V/Gen3 and swapped over last night, works perfect, straight into the uefi bios and set my i2500k to 4.6ghz again.

Al working sweet, now awaiting the 7970 tomorrow

Raiden82 · 22 Jan 2012 at 01:43

Narrowed down to two: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 and the Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3.
The GA looks better (to me) and seems more feature reach, similar to the V pro, and cheaper, is there something important i'm missing?
Need to get one tomorrow from a retailer with those 2 brands only...
Thankssss

Raiden82 · 22 Jan 2012 at 01:48

LoL now i see the prices for the UD5 elsewhere, i bet seems better! found it for £136 gogogo

Cupra · 22 Jan 2012 at 01:57

i love my ud5, only thing with it is the pci-e 1 slot at the top is totaly useless

IvanDobskey · 22 Jan 2012 at 13:18

djay said:
3rd this, unfortunately I have got to RMA my ASrock as it has a dodgy slot and also the onboard sound is borked. Other than that it 'was' a fantastic board.

Purchased the ASUS Z68-V/Gen3 and swapped over last night, works perfect, straight into the uefi bios and set my i2500k to 4.6ghz again.

Al working sweet, now awaiting the 7970 tomorrow

Good choice

Really don't think the ASrock boards are quite up to scratch quality wise just yet despite their current popularity.

Raiden82 · 22 Jan 2012 at 16:49

just got the UD5 and 2500k, now the system it's complete :-)

is there something in the bios that i should turn on/off i have an ssd if that helps.
thx

stulid · 22 Jan 2012 at 17:25

Raiden82 said:
just got the UD5 and 2500k, now the system it's complete is there something in the bios that i should turn on/off i have an ssd if that helps.
thx

Enable AHCI on the SATA controller, do this ideally before you install the OS as changing it after will certainly cause a BSOD.

djay · 22 Jan 2012 at 17:26

IvanDobskey said:
Good choice Really don't think the ASrock boards are quite up to scratch quality wise just yet despite their current popularity.

Got the CPU now at 4.8 at 1.32 vcore as well now at the same vcore. The asus shofar has not missed a beat very solid board.

Raiden82 · 22 Jan 2012 at 18:43

guess i'll reinstall again :| in the bios there's that option but for all sata iI think, iI have an hdd as well should i do it anyways?

stulid · 22 Jan 2012 at 18:50

Its fine for the HDD.

You have got the SSD connected to the white SATA ports?

Raiden82 · 22 Jan 2012 at 18:55

yes and the hdd as well since it's sata3, thanks for all the advice feels like an epic build!

masscrazy · 22 Jan 2012 at 18:57

IvanDobskey said:
Good choice Really don't think the ASrock boards are quite up to scratch quality wise just yet despite their current popularity.

What makes you think this?

Raiden82 · 23 Jan 2012 at 23:47

Got the CPU now at 4.8 at 1.32 vcore as well now at the same vcore. The asus shofar has not missed a beat very solid board.

LoL got 4.4 with the UD5, just changing the multiplier to 44x and disabling pll, voltage on auto at 1.37, if i try to increase the multiplier just keeps resetting and have to clear cmos :-(

just want something not so extreme to leave always on should i fiddle with other settings?

wam7 · 24 Jan 2012 at 13:27

Had both the UD5 and the V-Pro. The V-Pro was the better board, higher and more stable overclocks with lower temps. The UD5 was about 5c higher at stock settings.

The added bonus of the Asus are better features (Bluetooth, DVI out, Lucid, Quicksync) plus UEFI bios which has other benefits.
The Gigabyte is the better looking but has very little else over the Asus.