best motherboard to oc/intel 960x

romper76 · 19 May 2013 at 08:43

hi, im after some advise for the best overclocking motherboard for i7 3960x cpu i can spend up to £260 and my system is running 240x2 custom water cooled. i dont want the board to hold me back.

Kaapstad · 19 May 2013 at 08:54

Do you mean i7 3960X CPU

romper76 · 19 May 2013 at 09:13

umm yeah! missed the 3

stulid · 19 May 2013 at 10:49

What sort of speed do you want to achieve?

I've played with the £210 Gigabyte X79-UP4 here.

4.7-4.8GHz enough for you?

romper76 · 19 May 2013 at 13:53

nice, I would be happy with 4.6 to be honest. Thanks for the link