This is my motherboard. I got it because it was a good deal back in 2012.
http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4153#bios
http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4153#bios
Which Motherboard Do You Use?
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I usually just pick something cheap that happens to have all the slots, ports and features I'm looking for. I often end up with something from MSI.
Mainboards haven't really mattered for ages anymore, unless you're desperately looking for functions that make overclocking a little easier.
If you stick to stock speeds or conservative overclocking for your memory and cpu, it's all the same in MB land.
Mainboards haven't really mattered for ages anymore, unless you're desperately looking for functions that make overclocking a little easier.
If you stick to stock speeds or conservative overclocking for your memory and cpu, it's all the same in MB land.
Still using my mid-2011 Asus mid-market board and an i5-2500k! Personally I'm not sure processor performance really affects games that much; you might get slowdown with an i3, but anything with an i5 or i7, even an older one, probably won't bottleneck performance, and neither will the board you use.
So I'd basically just buy anything at a decent price that's got room for expansion.
So I'd basically just buy anything at a decent price that's got room for expansion.
Currently using an Asus Maximus Formula 7, why? Well my first big OCing board was a Maximus Formula 3, this board went through a good few builds including a bit by bit conversion to full water cooling (GPU, CPU, Motherboard) it lasted for five years, took a fair amount of abuse through the various builds and kept my old Core 2 OC'd without issue throughout the whole time. Until the Southbridge started to go tits up around a year and a half ago.
I wanted a new board that had the watercooling bits pre installed and the Formula 7 was one of the first boards Asus launched with the correct fitting (The Formula 6 had a pre installed water block but required a barb connector which I wasn't going to deal with.) The board has been rock solid stable pushing my watercooled 4690K at 4.8Ghz now since I finished the full loop around a year and a bit ago. Not only that but it looks damn fine as well.
I wanted a new board that had the watercooling bits pre installed and the Formula 7 was one of the first boards Asus launched with the correct fitting (The Formula 6 had a pre installed water block but required a barb connector which I wasn't going to deal with.) The board has been rock solid stable pushing my watercooled 4690K at 4.8Ghz now since I finished the full loop around a year and a bit ago. Not only that but it looks damn fine as well.