Where can you still buy 1155 motherboards?!

MissChief · 14 Sep 2017 at 12:05

Jimmy Weirdarms said:
So the verdict is the usual auction site is the best/only source?

As a very smart individual, I just bought a second graphics card for my main machine, so I can use SLI. Only to find out it's not capable as the second x16 slot only actually runs at x4... Dufus. So now I'm in the market for something better than my old p8p67le. But I've only just (late last year) put a 2700k in there, and have 16G of decent RAM so I'm not looking to upgrade the whole thing.

It will still work and, in all honesty, you'll likely not notice the difference.

Jimmy Weirdarms · 14 Sep 2017 at 12:09

Hmm, from my reading I figured x8 was the minimum.

I'll give it a go as soon as I get the right SLI bridge - I've been sent the wrong model first time and it won't fit.

pastymuncher · 14 Sep 2017 at 12:59

SLI will not work with a 4x slot as it need's 8x/8x as a minimum. Crossfire is the one that works with a 4x slot.

Jimmy Weirdarms · 14 Sep 2017 at 13:16

Thanks, that's what I had read. Looks like I'm going to be hitting up the auction site for (at least) a z68 board...

MissChief · 14 Sep 2017 at 13:20

pastymuncher said:
SLI will not work with a 4x slot as it need's 8x/8x as a minimum. Crossfire is the one that works with a 4x slot.

I sit corrected.

mickyflinn · 14 Sep 2017 at 19:14

Jimmy Weirdarms said:
Looks like I'm going to be hitting up the auction site for (at least) a z68 board...

Remeber that Z68 motherboard needed a bios update to take the ivybridge cpu's, personally i would go Z77.

pastymuncher · 14 Sep 2017 at 19:18

Jimmy Weirdarms said:
Thanks, that's what I had read. Looks like I'm going to be hitting up the auction site for (at least) a z68 board...

One thing to keep in mind is that Ivybridge cpu's which is what your 3770k is, brought with them a pci-e 3.0 controller (it's built into the cpu) so keep your eyes open for a Z77 board (launched with Ivybridge so is pci-e 3.0 compatible) or a Z68 board that is advertised as pci-e Gen 3 (a lot of them were just pci-e 2.0). Another thing to consider is that there is a slim chance that any Z68 board may need a bios flash before your 3770k will work in it so you would need access to a Sandybridge cpu to be able to flash the bios. Like I said, it's a slim chance but there are plenty of people that run the board as it came out of the box and never update the bios. If in doubt ask the seller before buying. I would also avoid any MSI board from these generations as they have a extremely high chance of bricking should you need to flash the bios. Stick with Asus or Gigabyte and you can't really go wrong.

Jimmy Weirdarms · 14 Sep 2017 at 20:59

mickyflinn said:
Remeber that Z68 motherboard needed a bios update to take the ivybridge cpu's, personally i would go Z77.

pastymuncher said:
One thing to keep in mind is that Ivybridge cpu's which is what your 3770k ...

Oh... I'm not the OP, I'm just some schmuck that hijacked the thread. I've actually got a 2700K in an ASUS P8P67LE board, I upgraded from an i5 2400 a year-ish back. I do wish I'd spent a bit extra on the 3770K now, just because of the PCIe Gen 3 thing. I also wish I'd spent the extra few bucks on the PRO version of the board way back when I first built the system! Them's the breaks I suppose.

Anyway, for me a Z68 is probably fine, I'm not ever going to buy another processor of that generation (Sandy/Ivy Brige). Though I'll get a Z75/Z77 if it's cheaper. Or even a P67 if there's one with a decent PCIe setup.

pastymuncher · 15 Sep 2017 at 08:50

What I said still applies to the OP so no probs.

charic · 19 Sep 2017 at 00:26

New board fitted today and it booted without issue on initial trial. I'll fire it up properly and tidy up tomorrow, fingers crossed!

charic · 19 Sep 2017 at 00:26

Thanks for all the advice guys