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** Intel Pentium G4560: Bang For Buck Gaming **

Excellent! Looks like the b250 boards have the BIOS ready. If you get 2400mhz ram, will it auto run at 2133mhz if that's all the board can go to? For some reason it's cheaper!
 
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The 200 series boards were built for Kabylake so do support it out of the box. The RAM would do that, yes. However, you should be able to manually set it to 2400.
 
Sounding more tempting! Would an rx470 be OK with this or overkill?
Current configured upgrade is just over £500 with one of these.
 
Thank you! I'll see if anything interesting comes on tomorrow's this week only, I may be building a new PC Thursday night!
 
Up and running! First serious PC hardware working for me, not done anything more than switching out a GPU so entire mobo changeout was fun.

Running with my 6950, everything feels really fast and snappy though that might be as much due to a 6GBps SATA port rather than the 3GBps I had previously.

Will try a few games now
 
have had to snap one of these up as a cost effective means of keeping a dying rig alive. Seems my old P8P67 Pro is on its way out and not planning of a full 2500k replacement until the end of the year.

So what cost effective Mobos can you recommend for this.
 
I can use XMP 2400 DDR4 speed with this Pentium xD. I was limited to 2133 with the 6700K and H170M , but the Pentium + H170M allows you to use XMP profiles regardless.
 
Komedy said:
have had to snap one of these up as a cost effective means of keeping a dying rig alive. Seems my old P8P67 Pro is on its way out and not planning of a full 2500k replacement until the end of the year.

So what cost effective Mobos can you recommend for this.
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Cheapest way would be to go for a Skylake H110 (£44.99), though you'd need to update the BIOS I think.
 
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Cheapest way would be to go for a Skylake H110 (£44.99), though you'd need to update the BIOS I think.
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Correct. I've got mine in a ASUS H110I-Plus. However, I had to pull my 6700k out of my rig to update the bios in it. I believe most mobo manufacturers will flash the bios for you if you send it off. You could always try asking OCUK too, you never know.
 
I'm looking at the below, I have everything else I just want to switch the mobo/cpu/ram:


Total: £293.93
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Thoughts/comments?

Any components to replace?

Also - the plan with this is that I'd swap out the G4560 for a 7700k in the future
 
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