New Motherboard Recommendation

[Premgenius]

Hey,

Would like recommendations for a new motherboard, below is the processor and RAM I shall be installing it the board

CPU: Intel i7-2600k

RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR-3 1600Mhz (CMX8GX3M4A1600C9)

thanks

[Muhammad Farrukh]

A Z68 motherboard? If you are gonna install a SSD in the future.

Have a look below

Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3

Gigabyte XKT-1155 Z68AP-D3

AsRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

[Killer_Z]

Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3

I have this motherboard with a i7 2700K; it's great for a lazy overclocker (like me :) ). You can easily get 3.9GHz or even 4.3 with a good CPU cooler.

My ram is Corsair Vengeance Performance Memory Module 16GB (4x4GB) but I didn't push it too far (1833).

[Premgenius]

thanks for the recommendations. I'm bit sceptical about the switcing mehmanism between the two GPUs if I can call it that because one of my friends had a Asus Z68 motherboard and the driver kept crashing may have been a drivers issue. P86 recommendations on top of the Z68?

[Sulphy]

have a look at the ASROCK z68 Extreme 7 Gen 3 board... i have one, and it is awesome!!!!!!

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=Z68%20Extreme7%20Gen3

I bought mine through overclockers... I have a GTX460 nvidia, and i also have a 3rd monitor hooked up to the onboard gfx ... and have had no issues at all!

[spikey_richie]

I have one of these running my i7-2700k (see my CPUz link) and it's solid as a rock.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3979#ov

[Killer_Z]

thanks for the recommendations. I'm bit sceptical about the switcing mehmanism between the two GPUs if I can call it that because one of my friends had a Asus Z68 motherboard and the driver kept crashing may have been a drivers issue. P86 recommendations on top of the Z68?

I have only seen the switch between the two adapters in notebooks (core i5, i7) with the monitor connected internally on the video bus. I'm not a fan of it but it helps the battery. It seems to work in windows but in linux I choose to disable completely the intel gpu and use only the amd adapter.

In an atx motherboard the dvi/hdmi ports for the sandy bridge gpu and the dedicated graphic card are differents. So you can't really switch between the two easily (you must have at least two input ports and cables, maybe it can be made to work).

Personally I don't use the sandy bridge gpu at all, I have an asus gtx 580 and it's my only video output. Never had a problem with the nvidia drivers so far (and yeah I do play games :) ).

[Killer_Z]

I have one of these running my i7-2700k (see my CPUz link)

I must ask what kind of cooler are you using for that clock, I'm impressed. I pushed my 2700K at 4.3 GHz, it was rock stable but the temperature went a little up the scale, reaching 80?C with one core. Now it's clocked at 3.9 and the max temp is around 67-68?C under stress. I have a Noctua NHU-12P (with the lga 1155 mounting kit obviously). My case is the Corsair Graphite 600TM.

Thanks

[spikey_richie]

It's a be quiet dark rock pro, in a thermaltake armor jr full atx case, with 2 120mm be quiet silent wings and 1 90mm be quite silent wings fans. Idle it's about 40 degrees on all cores, and maxed out ruining Einstein in boinc plus Mikyway on my cuda ready gts450 it doesn't go above 72 degrees with all fans at full speed.

[spikey_richie]

HSF is this:

Case fans are these:

[Premgenius]

thanks I've finalized between two but cannot make my mind between the two

- Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen3 (?155.99)

- Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 (?144.98)

[Killer_Z]

Thanks spikey_richie, my case has two 200mm fans and one 120mm fan, since they're a little noisy I linked the two 200mm fans to the manual controller and forget they were running at the minimum speed :) . I should try again increasing their speed and see for myself.

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