I'm looking for a Ivy Bridge motherboard to work with the following hardware:
Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
Cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212E-20PK-R2 Continuous Direct Contact 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory (with LEDs) x2 (total 16GB)
VIDEO: EVGA 04G-P4-2673-KR GeForce GTX 670 Superclocked+ w/Backplate 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card x2 in SLI
SOUND: Creative X-FI PCI Sound Card
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 Series - MAX IOPS Edition VTX3MI-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
This will be for a normal ATX form factor case, either medium or full tower setup. I'm also not 100% set on the RAM but obviously I'm more interested in what motherboard to get.
Budget is sub-200$ but cheaper is better without sacrificing quality. Thanks in advance. I also prefer to stick with known quality brands since I'm likely going to use it for the next 2-3 years at least.
Looking to get an approximate 4.5Ghz Overclock (or close) and also maybe overclocking the video cards a little to a 680 level. Obviously a concern is fitting the PCI card and two video cards onto the board with the cpu cooler and 16GB of RAM.
Edited by Neovalen - 6/25/12 at 2:18pm
Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
Cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212E-20PK-R2 Continuous Direct Contact 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory (with LEDs) x2 (total 16GB)
VIDEO: EVGA 04G-P4-2673-KR GeForce GTX 670 Superclocked+ w/Backplate 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card x2 in SLI
SOUND: Creative X-FI PCI Sound Card
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 Series - MAX IOPS Edition VTX3MI-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
This will be for a normal ATX form factor case, either medium or full tower setup. I'm also not 100% set on the RAM but obviously I'm more interested in what motherboard to get.
Budget is sub-200$ but cheaper is better without sacrificing quality. Thanks in advance. I also prefer to stick with known quality brands since I'm likely going to use it for the next 2-3 years at least.
Looking to get an approximate 4.5Ghz Overclock (or close) and also maybe overclocking the video cards a little to a 680 level. Obviously a concern is fitting the PCI card and two video cards onto the board with the cpu cooler and 16GB of RAM.
Edited by Neovalen - 6/25/12 at 2:18pm
