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New m-ATX & Intel Chip

Korath

Korath

Korath

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Hey guys.

Long long long story short my Sabertooth 2.0 Mobo is screwing me over and causing no end of grief so I'm using the opportunity to downsize and go m-ATX (which means Intel).

I'm not sure whats good these days mobo/cpu wise as it's not something I've kept track of.

What would people recommend?

Current system is:
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
AMD FX8350 @ 4.7Ghz (h100i)
Corsair 16GB Vengeance
500Gb Samsung 840 SSD
MSI R9 290 Gaming Twin Frozr
750W Corsair Pro

Gaming & Overclocking and while I would obviously prefer not to spend much money I will push high if it would be worth it. Starting budget £250.
 
Hmmmm looking into this morning, want to get stuff delivered for tomorrow.

The Z97 boards are broadwell compatible right?

So thinking maybe the MSI Z97M gaming as my board but do I get a i5 Haswell (4690K) and sell to upgrade to Broadwell i7 later or spend the extra £100 and just get a i7 4790K now....

At the moment I'm not doing much to make use of the i7 but over summer will be doing lots of video editing work so i7 will come into play there (plus games might be making use of the core more this year :P)
 
If you are going to be doing a lot of video editing in the future, it would make more sense to invest in the i7. Broadwell is'nt due for release until the end of summer/autumn(supposely) and then you have skylake, which is supposed to be released a couple of months later.
And yes, broadwell will work with the current Z97 boards.
 
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