which 1156 mobo for non overclocked but cool i7 860/i5 750

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as it says in title guys, wanting to buy a new 1156 rig. undecided between i7 860 and i5 750, leaning towards the i7. want to run it as cool and silent as possible.

notice there are about 4 asus mobos, what extras do you get for the money and what mobo would you recommend for my pc.

thanks.
 
What are your needs? I've opted for the i7 860 as well, just waiting for the new graphic cards so I can place a order! :D

If it's for gaming, go for the i5 750, it's a great little chip! There's some reviews on here which can add a certain perspective.
 
I've just brought the EVGA F.T.W board with a core i5 750 in and it seems to run quite cool and quiet at stock :D

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It's not for gaming I use adobe CS4 suite, watching HD, net use, work, etc tend to have a lot running at once.
It has to be in a bedroom so silence and temp r key followed by performance.
 
there are so many mobos, hard to choose. i would like esata, not bothered about overclock features, multi gfx or extras not related to efficiency and silence.

looking at the asus and gigabyte models.
 
IF you get a decent one you will be able to overclock and undervolt the processor, having it run faster while making less noise. Obviously it isn't going to hit 4ghz undervolted, but it will probably still go above stock.

More important for noise is case, cpu cooler and graphics cooler. The antec P18* series are excellent for keeping the machine quiet, but even they won't cope with a screaming graphics card.

You don't want it cool incidentally, you want it quiet. It'll be a lot quieter at 60 degrees than at 50, since the fans wont have to spin as fast. The last box I put together has an e8400 running at 75 degrees under load, but with no fan on the cpu at all.
 
For what you want, the relatively cheap Gigabyte P55M UD2 would work just fine. If you aren't doing serious overclocking and or you don't have any particular need to put tons of expansion cards in the machine then you can't fault it really. This board can still clock though, really well, better than you would expect given it's total lack of cooling on the mosfets and the fairly modest power system.

There really isn't any particular reason to buy the expensive high-end boards if you aren't going to use the features they offer, i.e. better crossfire and SLI capability, the UD2 only has 1 x16 PCI-E and a x4 PCI-E, rather than 2 X16s or more (although the Lynfield controller can only run an x8/x8 if you are doing 2 way crossfire or SLI anyway), also you have to ask yourself if you really need the monster power setups (which you pay for), like 16 or 24 phase power etc, or diag LED's and the like.

If you are just going to build a system, run it at stock or with a none too aggressive overclock and then put the side of the case on and leave it, rather than keep fiddling ...then the UD2 or one of the other sub £100 boards will serve you very well indeed I think.
 
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yeah i was looking at that board, the main thing for me is i have a lot of hdds to fit, need the storage for HD stuff. so if this mobo has a fair amount of sata and e-sata ports it looks a winner. i toyed with underclocking to keep it quiet, u think i should still overclock slightly but undervolt instead? never tried that..
 
decided on a silver fortress case, prefer silver and only one that looks half decent for my use.
 
ok so why so many diff gigabyte mobos, what does each one have different, theres about 7 of em!
 
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