In the maket for a new mobo

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Evening everyone,

I would like to call on your collective exoertise and knowledge if I may.

Last month my main rig died :( The psu fried and it's also taken out the mobo. I was thinking of upgrading next year when the new chipsets and skylake came out but this has forced a short term upgrade.

Old rig Specs:

Intel X3350 (possibly decased)
Asus Maximus Formula (definately deceased)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8000C5 1000MHz ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2
Corsair HX520 (definately deceased)
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO
Leadtek GTX260
Antec 1200 gaming case

Now, got a new psu, Corsair AX1200, core i7 4770k, 8GB Teamgroup Xtreem Frost Edition C11 2666Mhz DDR3 and intend to reuse the case, gpu, and ssd. This brings me onto what motherboard would be suitable? Been about 6 years since I built that system and everything has moved on so much since then (as you can tell from the original specs, DDR2!!!!).

I know once I get it up and running again that the gpu will be a bottleneck but I'll cross that bridge whenI come to it.

Thanks for any advice guys

mick
 
Hi,

My suggestion is MSI Z97 MPower or MSI Z97 Gaming 5/7 depending on what you really want. Personally I like their motherboards, which are prettiest that you can find around.

Your RAM will most likely not work @2666MHz, as your CPU can only support up to 1600MHz, and anything above is OC and not guaranteed by anyone (Intel, motherboard manufacturer you will buy or RAM vendor)
 
Nichrome said:
Hi,

My suggestion is MSI Z97 MPower or MSI Z97 Gaming 5/7 depending on what you really want. Personally I like their motherboards, which are prettiest that you can find around.

Your RAM will most likely not work @2666MHz, as your CPU can only support up to 1600MHz, and anything above is OC and not guaranteed by anyone (Intel, motherboard manufacturer you will buy or RAM vendor)
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Hi,
Intel tricks people with their specs on the website. I have an Avexir quad channel kit that running at 2666Mhz (4x8GB) with both my i7 4770K and Pentium G3220 perfectly stable for months, the motherboard was Z87 Mpower now is Asus Z97 AR. Reason why they put it there is just easier for them to deny a RMA request.
 
Thanks for the replies guys.

Quick update, just got another 8gb of the same ram so 16gb in total.

Been having a look and review reading and I'm very tempted by the gigabyte next gen upgrade offer, feature packed boards with a lot of good reviews. As Nichrome suggested, the msi boards are very pretty, nice features and a decent warranty - 3 years.

I'm not looking for a board with the soul purpose of overcloking the nuts off it, it would be a nice feature to have but I wouldn't be cut up if it didn't. Ideally I'd like something that would support x-fire/sli as my gpu will need to be upgraded in the not too distant future. In a nut shell, the best feature packed, bang for buck board I can get for about £150.

RJC - lol, I know, but got it for such a good prive I couldn't say no! Plus, if I do go sli/x-fire I won't have to worry about the power side :)

Thanks all

mick
 
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1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard **Overclockers UK Exclusive** £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £142.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £127.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z97 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £118.99
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Total : £683.46 (includes shipping : £11.25).




Gigabyte have the best warranty/support, and are great boards overall imo. The best from these lot is the UD3H-BK probably, check out this insane 3 year free upgrade warranty - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18631511
 
abui1806 said:
Hi,
Intel tricks people with their specs on the website. I have an Avexir quad channel kit that running at 2666Mhz (4x8GB) with both my i7 4770K and Pentium G3220 perfectly stable for months, the motherboard was Z87 Mpower now is Asus Z97 AR. Reason why they put it there is just easier for them to deny a RMA request.
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LOL.
 
MagicBoy said:
None whatsoever.
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OK lets me prove my point in here. :)
Here is my testing sytem with Avexir Blitz 1.1 Mpower edition 2666Mhz cas 13, Pentium G3220, Asus Z97 AR.
Default speed, XMP disable. Ram is running at 1600Mhz cas 11.


XMP enable. Ram running at 2666Mhz cas 13.


Picture of the actual testing sytem.


So my first point is a pentium can total run high speed ram. What importance is the motherboard not just the specs listed on Intel's website.

Second point is about "denying RMA request".
I have a chat log with intel about this issue but I dont know how to upload it here. If you want I can send it via email. ;)
 
In nearly twenty years of working with computers, and selling, fixing, mass rollouts and support of ten of thousands of them, I'll tell you know how many failed Intel CPUs I've seen. One.

The odds are so slim I can hardly comprehend how you would get a faulty CPU, let along Intel inventing reasons to deny an RMA request.

So yeah, LOL.

I you really want to upload a chat log try Pastebin?
 
Thanks for all the info. Been having a look and narrowed it down to two possibilities.

MSI Z97 Gaming 7
Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK
The MSI looks nice, has good reviews and has got quite a few awards (for what it's worth) and the bit that has me leaning to this over the Gigabyte is that all 3 pci-e lanes are x16. Had a look on youtube and the UEFI on both boards looks great, but the MSI one actually showed a picture of the mobo and you can see whats connected where.

The Gigabyte board has a lot of features and is very well laid out. The big plus for this board is that incredible 5 year warranty and next gen chipset exchange programme.

I think I'm leaning more towards the Gigabyte, unless someone can think of a reason not too?

Sorry for the ramble, like to keep my options open :)

mick
 
sneakypenguin said:
The MSI looks nice, has good reviews and has got quite a few awards (for what it's worth) and the bit that has me leaning to this over the Gigabyte is that all 3 pci-e lanes are x16. Had a look on youtube and the UEFI on both boards looks great, but the MSI one actually showed a picture of the mobo and you can see whats connected where.
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The slots are x16, the lanes not necessarily so.

There's 16 PCI-e v3 lanes on the CPU, which are shared out amongst the three 16x slots. Check the spec sheet, you likely have the option for single slot at 16x with the other two disabled, a pair of 8x slots with the third disabled or 8x/4x/4x slots. Most S1150/Z97 combinations are equal is this respect unless they've fitted a PLX chip, which adds ££s.
 
OK, thank you for your suggestion but I dont know how to use the Pastepin. So I will just do it the longer way then.
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Basically, Miguel was trying to say that if I run my Corsair Dominator Platinum with XMP enable. They will consider it as overclocking and they may cancel the RMA request. The day after that, I received a phone call from Intel UK customer service confirming that they will however replace my faulty CPU. It was nice talking with them.
 
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You might want to edit your personal details out of that. I'm confused, so even if they consider it to be 'overclocking' then they still replaced it? surely thats a win? and how does oc'ing the ram oc the processor?

mick
 
sneakypenguin said:
You might want to edit your personal details out of that. I'm confused, so even if they consider it to be 'overclocking' then they still replaced it? surely thats a win? and how does oc'ing the ram oc the processor?

mick
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Hi Mick, sorry for hijacking your topic. Hope you forgive me :)
OCing the RAM effectively affects the CPU as well because the Integrated memory controller (IMC) that involving in RAM speed is actually inside the Haswell CPU.
Thank you for reminding about the personal details. I have edited a little bit.
 
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