Please give me some motherboard/cpu advice

the 4770k retail(box, cpu cooler, 3 years warranty) is £252 on the 'this week only' offer(ends next wednesday), the 4770 and 4771 are £240, the 3770k retail is £252(also on the this week only, same price as the 4770k), 3770k oem(no retail box comes in a white box, no cpu cooler and only 1yr waranty) is £240. from that I would pay the £12 extra and get the 4770k.

if you can do without sli then go for the motherboard I suggested previously(it's £2 cheaper till next week), if you want option of sli for ~£115 then you have

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-436-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574

the msi suggested previously is now back up to £125, the g43 says it has sli support but I can't comment on what its like.

socket 1155(sandy bridge/ivybridge, chipset z68, z77, etc) don't have any upgrade path(the highest you can get on it is the 3770k), socket 1150 (haswell, chipset z87 etc) on the other hand has the die shrink of haswell to come unless intel decide to move to another socket for it.
 
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Thanks for the advice and your time, fowler002. I appreciate it.

I know I mentioned I wasn't interested in overclocking, but that was with consideration to the fact that I would have preferred HT over the extended overclocking potential with an unlocked multiplier. Now (after a bit more research) I know I can probably have both within my budget, things have changed. I am not the kind of person who would overclock a CPU as soon as I had fitted it, so I am currently wondering how much longevity I might get out of the i7-3770K before it was a choice between having to overclock or upgrading again. I would certainly be against overclocking the CPU until it was out of warranty even if I could.

As far as price changes are concerned, I am in no hurry to spend the money. Prices go up, prices go down.
 
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Let me go find a nice brick wall I can bang my head against, think I'll that'll be more productive.
As I said before it's your choice, seems you're dead set with getting the 3770k + asrock z77 motherboard you mentioned previously. Just but thatif that's what you really want.
 
I would invest in a 4770k, purely because you're getting a bit more performance, and if we are lucky, then the next Intel gen chips will fit that socket (they may not though). 3770k is still a good chip, but the price difference is minimal between that and a 4770k right now.
 
Fowler002, have I upset you ? If so, please tell me why.

I understand that the i7-4770K is the one to buy but I cannot at present afford the extra cost. I am scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard I am beginning to see daylight just to get £340. But the sacrifice will be worth it. I'll be eating nothing but chip butties for about a week ;). Thank you for the advice, though :D.
 
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Now I understand. If that was the case, the deal is/was on for a week. That would be great but, I don't have the money right now. By the time I could have got the money, the deal would have gone. How much money I have or how easily I have access to it is of concern only to me. I tried (without going into too much detail) to make part of that clear at the bottom of post #22. I only specified my budget in post #1 for the sake of relevance to what I was asking advice for.

Fowler002, I understand you are not a mind-reader but sometimes people have different reasons for doing/not doing something other than what may be a no-brainer/obvious to you. If that was not the reason why you gave the impression that you were upset with me then I will ask you once more if I have upset you and why.
 
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