1155 mATX suggestions

agnes · 28 Nov 2016 at 14:58

Sup, my Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M just gave up the ghost, I have a 100 squids budget to replace it. So upgrading is out of the questions.

Requirements are a PCI-E x16 slot for my 980 ti. 4 DDR3 channels (1600 supported), 8 pin CPU power as I have a 3570k which I OC and finally a PCI-E x1 slot for my Xonar Essance STX sound card. Ideally at the bottom or to allow for my GPU to sit away from it or at least not have to put my GPU at the bottom.

Thanks!

Mrjobby · 28 Nov 2016 at 17:59

You might just about get a low end matx Z77 on well known auction site for £100 2nd hand.

Z68 should be doable within price range but won't be new.

Actually had a quick look round and it is very slim pickings regardless of price.

John7up · 28 Nov 2016 at 18:47

Maybe for 100 quid you can get an Asus gene V z77. Or even the z68 gene-z. Had both and had no problems.

pastymuncher · 28 Nov 2016 at 18:48

As the socket is long dead you are basically stuck with whatever you can pick up second hand. There may be the odd brand new H61 board in stock somewhere but you can bet they will be base models that are overpriced.

Mrjobby · 28 Nov 2016 at 19:37

John7up said:
Maybe for 100 quid you can get an Asus gene V z77. Or even the z68 gene-z. Had both and had no problems.

Z68 Gene-Z go for nearer £200 second hand on there.

1155 is a mad mad world.

agnes · 28 Nov 2016 at 22:27

Well, temporarily, I bought a £15 midi case to put this in which I bought earlier:

edit: removed link to competitor, I bought the below board for £110...

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/P67 Extreme4 Gen3/index.pl.asp

It's ****** expensive, but it will do, the sound card will have to sit above the GPU however, going to be might toasty! I'll see if I can get my motherboard replaced. But I guess it's time to upgrade! Time to save and spec up.

MegaMasher · 29 Nov 2016 at 08:20

I was in same position about a month ago but used 1155 boards go for the same as new 1151 boards. So I bought skylake and never have I wanted to walk the Ivybridge again

pastymuncher · 29 Nov 2016 at 10:42

Holy crap, £110 for a ancient P67 motherboard. Was that new or second hand? It would seem to be a investment to hang onto old boards for a couple of generations to maximise the price on resale.

agnes · 29 Nov 2016 at 12:02

They had an issue with the board, the pins were bent, so it was used! The had the below in stock, so got them to ship that.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q77M vPro/

pastymuncher · 29 Nov 2016 at 13:13

No overclocking with that board plus if it's still £110 it's probably more than it cost when new.

agnes · 29 Nov 2016 at 13:16

pastymuncher said:
No overclocking with that board plus if it's still £110 it's probably more than it cost when new.

Bugger, very good point! Totally missed that.

Urgh. I'll run it for the moment, until I work out a solution.

Running a i5 3570k, I imagine this is going to bottle neck a lot of games. I had it running at 4.2Ghz.

pastymuncher · 29 Nov 2016 at 18:46

You are going to be stuck with the 3.8Ghz turbo now then. If you are lucky there may be options in the bios to fix the speed at max turbo on all cores. At least you only lose 400mhz then which shouldn't make too much difference.