LONG POST WARNING! (But not rediculously long) Trying to decide which board and cpu...

[Ben Stopp]

LONG POST WARNING!

(But not rediculously long)

Trying to decide which board and cpu to go with for my gaming rig... the others will go back in the boxes in the cupboard so leave selling stuff and buying stuff out of it but...

Option 1:

Asus H81-GAMER and i7-4790k, 16GB ddr3@ 2000

Option 2:

MSI-H110M pro-VD and i5-6400, 8GB ddr4 @2100

Option 3:

(Current build)

Asus P8Z68-3 pro/gen3 with i7-3770, 16gb ddr3 @2000

All will be paired with 128Gb 840 evo, 2tb wd blue, 620W corsair psu, evga 1080 classified...

Thinking option 1( due to benchmarks but not 100% sure...

#waddayareckon?

 

[Ben Stopp]

Please someone help lol

 

[Khris Ellington]

hmm, so a few things that kinda conflict.. hang on..

 

[Khris Ellington]

option 1 has a k sku with a non-overclockable board but with probably the best IPC stock..

 

[Ben Stopp]

I'm told the 4790k will still oc well with this board but may still bottleneck the 1080

 

[Khris Ellington]

base clock overclock maybe..

 

[Khris Ellington]

the multiplier will be unable to change unless you have a z97 chipset

 

[Khris Ellington]

option 2 is the most cost effective

 

[Khris Ellington]

option 3 is an overclockable board with a non k sku, bclk overclock still possible i believe

 

[Ben Stopp]

So I prob should just splash out on an 1150 z board hey?

 

[Khris Ellington]

a real conundrum

 

[Khris Ellington]

i would probably just like you thought as well, go with #1

 

[Khris Ellington]

so apparently that h110m/i5-6400 option would be able to bclk overclock as well

 

[Rasmus Schrøder]

id say option one because it's overclockable. If you don't wan't to overclock id say option 2 because of the better ipc.

 

[Khris Ellington]

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[Khris Ellington]

nevermind..

 

[Khris Ellington]

i read that, realized that's a gigabyte

 

[Khris Ellington]

skylake cpus can bclk overclock with old (stock) bios but the 1-200mhz wouldn't make a huge difference, you're still pairing with a 1080.. stick with 1 guess

 

[Khris Ellington]

and i still could be wrong, i believe i read that a certain windows 10 update, mods the actual microcode on skylake chips to disable bclk overclocking even if you had an old bios that would've allowed it.

 

[Khris Ellington]

intel being intel