Best i5 3570K Mobo <$100

icanhascpu2

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Needing some advice/link on sub $100 mobos for a i5 3570K paring.

Ive been looking at ASRock Z75 Pro3 for $85. z77 is 10$ more. Anyone have experiences with this board or ones in similar range? Thanks


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So I have the option of a Microcenter in the next month. However the CPU/Mobo combos are limited and I want to try to stay under 260 pre tax.

http://www.microcenter.com/site/brands/intel-processor-bundles.aspx

If you were put in my situation, what would be the combo you would go with and why? Hearing things about digital vs analog VRM and its made me really re-think some mobo choices and Im not sure where to go from this limited selection.
 
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UNhooked

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I know the Asrock Extreme 4 is good and I have seen it go for $100 or with rebate.

Currently you buy the Extreme 3 for $120 that comes with 8GB ram. Sell the ram to offset the cost.
 
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gus6464

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My 3570K is running at 4.2GHz on an Asrock Z77 Pro4 with 0 issues and I got that for less than $100.
 

Concillian

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I used the Z75 Pro3 briefly, before I broke it.

It's fine. If you don't need features, it's perfectly fine. Handled a de-lidded 3570k overclock fine.

There's only two z77 features that aren't on a z75... the SSD caching thing (RST) and 3 way crossfire / SLI. Someone interested in a <$100 board isn't going to 3-way crossfire, so if you don't need RST, then go for the Pro3.

It broke when I was experimenting with cooling stuff and bent a whole mess of socket pins.. No quality issues or fault of the board or anything. It's a good board if you only need the basic ports and are overclocking on air.
 
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icanhascpu2

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Yeah thats pretty much what Ill be doing. OC on air with the basics. I definitely wouldn't be looking for a <$100 if I was considering 3way CF/SLi or water cooling to 5ghz. The SSD thing is not worth 1$ to me let alone 10.
 

MrDavid

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Maybe you can consider biostar. I am using their AMD boards for quite a while and i am really happy with its quality. The pricing is really fair and i feel confidend that its a good value for your money in that price range!
 

Anonemous

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Using an MSI Z77 mATX and it was around $105. Works pretty well and it's pretty compact.
 

Belial88

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The problem with motherboards is people often don't understand what makes a good or bad motherboard. They plug it in, it works, they rave it's an awesome board. Furthermore, most people never come close to truly stressing their board. Which is fine and dandy, but a board like an Asrock Pro3 is going to die a lot sooner than a higher quality board with better parts.

Also, MSI was a total train wreck on Z77. They dont have any offset voltage control, meaning that they are useless for 24/7 overclocks, where you want to use power saving features for your chip to downclock when it's idle/low load, which will be the majority of the day.

Even for an air overclock, a motherboard can get quite hot. Basically, the VRM is the heart of the motherboard. The VRM is literally a power supply for your CPU. It converts the 12v power from the PSU (which converted the 115v power from the wall to 12v/7v/5v/3.3v) to your CPU voltage, ie .9-1.6v. The lower quality the VRM, the less efficient it is and more of the power that is drawn, is wasted, thus it draws more power (a lot like the efficiency rating of a PSU, ie a 560w psu may draw 700w from the wall with 80% efficiency). This wasted power comes off as heat. And VRMs on lower quality boards, get hot - as in, they will get hotter than the CPU, and often be the limiting factor in an overclock.

You really should try to spend the extra money, and go for a Gigabyte Z77-D3H for the cheapest board possible on Z77. But a Z77X-D3H or Z77X-UD3H are worth extra money if you like overclocking and got it.

For a budget board, Biostar has an okay offering at the Biostar TZ77EX4, it's got a decent digital VRM (asrock and msi are analogue).

Asrock really is bad on Z77. Analogue VRM, extremely low quality mosfets with no low rds on and run very inefficiently, they used D-PAKs, and they are extremely generous in their voltage read-outs (hence, a lot of terrible review sites, like anandtech, raved about asrock on z77 because they supposedly did same overclock but on .06v less than every other board, turned out it was just lying about the voltage). Not worth the slight reduction in price. Extreme4 was a terrible board, as were the Pro series, and anyone recommending asrock on z77 say that because they have no clue what they are talking about and never used any other board.

edit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128546
Z77X-UD3H

For just $29 more than your budget, you can literally get one of the best motherboards on all of Z77. It has the same featureset as high end Asus boards - really good at RAM overclocking, extremely high quality VRM, voltage read-out points, overclock buttons, dual bios. This board has been used to reach 7ghz+ ivy bridge overclock world records on LN2. It'll handle any overclock, it'll stay cool on 1.6v on the chip (if your heatsink can handle that!). A very solid board. Definitely worth the extra price. It's higher quality than the extreme4 by miles, similar quality to the extreme6, and better than any msi board by far.

There's a reason it's the most popular z77 board amongst people who know what they are doing.
 
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icanhascpu2

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Thanks Belial88. I appreciate the insight. Knowing more intimate details like that will make it easier to spend the extra $ if I go Z7x. Do they have a Z75 version?
 

icanhascpu2

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So I have the option of a Microcenter in the next month. However the CPU/Mobo combos are limited and I want to try to stay under 260 pre tax.

http://www.microcenter.com/site/brands/intel-processor-bundles.aspx

If you were put in my situation, what would be the combo you would go with and why? Hearing things about digital vs analog VRM and its made me really re-think some mobo choices and Im not sure where to go from this limited selection.
 

UaVaj

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Belial88 hit the nail on the head dead center and hard.

if you want a typical everyday board that works. asjunk is okay.

if you want a quality board with reliability and some overclocking headroom. stay away from asjunk.

current own both asjunk pro3 and asjunk extreme4. both sitting in their retail box collecting dust. asus and gigabyte has replace them.

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lastly it is your money. spend it as you see fit.
 
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