looking for a new board

opstrat · 3 May 2012 at 17:35

im looking for a new board.

at the moment i have the msi z68a-g43 (g3). its an ok board for what it does. overclocking on it is a pain and has forced me to stop using one of my 6850's.

im looking for a board with good overclocking and with xfire x8 lanes.

but heres the kicker. im going to do a watercool build but my 6850's arnt refrence so i have to get universal vga blocks and an ek bridge. the bridge states that the mb pcie lanes must be 1.6" apart. which i think most of them are, but cant be to sure.

cheers

smithy83 · 3 May 2012 at 17:47

i had the same mobo and went to a Z77X-UD5H
on the z68a-g43 i could get my i5 2500k to 4.4ghz on my Z77X-UD5H i m getting 4.8 and can get to 4.9ghz

i beleave it would meet your requirements

or the GA-Z77X-UD3H cheaper

opstrat · 3 May 2012 at 17:51

thanks for that smithy, iv had a look at the pic. the gap between lanes looks too far for the ek xfire bridge.

opstrat · 8 May 2012 at 23:25

just going to bump this to see if anyone has more ideas