i5 2500k choosing a motherboard

ivanlabrie · Jan 26, 2012

I'll be buying a 2600k soon too...any good reasons not to go p8p67 instead of a p8z68 board? -it's really expensive here atm...only z68 boards I can pay would be a Biostar Tz68k+ and Gygabyte z68ma-d2h-b3.

B7akk0 · Jan 26, 2012

ivanlabrie said:
I'll be buying a 2600k soon too...any good reasons not to go p8p67 instead of a p8z68 board? -it's really expensive here atm...only z68 boards I can pay would be a Biostar Tz68k+ and Gygabyte z68ma-d2h-b3.

the only difference is that z68 can make use of the i5/i7 intergrated graphics as far as I know. I have a p67 and it runs my i7 2600k at 4.7ghz without a fuss

ivanlabrie · Jan 27, 2012

Perfect, P8P67-M it is then.

Mjolnir · Jan 27, 2012

Pretty sure only Z68 boards will support Gen 3 and therefore Ivy Bridge?? someone correct me though please if I'm wrong..

ivanlabrie · Jan 27, 2012

I thought all p67 and z68 gygabyte and msi boards were confirmed to have an upgrade path to Ivy and pci3...I can get the z68ma one if that one gives me a better upgrade path.Thouh having an i7 2600k I doubt I'll need to upgrade too soon...that shouldn't bottleneck a kepler card also, right?

Mjolnir · Jan 27, 2012

I believe to be able to use Ivy bridge; you need a Gen 3 motherboard with PCI-E 3.0 lanes. None of the P67 boards have PCIE 3.0 Lanes far as I know. Even a lot of the Z68 still don't have 3.0 lanes. You need to make sure they have them.. Not all models/revisions have them..

ivanlabrie · Jan 27, 2012

Oh, that makes a lot of sense...Would it be worth it the extra 100 bucks it would cost here?...Not too sure.Might as well grab a good new mobo once Ivy bridge gets a few steppings and mobo revisions.-thinking sandy bridge b2 mobos...yikes-

Mjolnir · Jan 27, 2012

I believe you'll only see around 15% max gains for going Ivy bridge over Sandy.. But I'm talking rendering and such here.. I doubt there'd be any real difference for gaming.

HeatM1ser2k4 · Jan 27, 2012

+1 for Asrock Z68 Extreme 3

I may have gotten a good chip, but was able to hit 5.4Ghz with this mobo--AND its inexpensive!

ivanlabrie · Jan 27, 2012

That makes the p8z68v-evo's 250usd price-tag even less enticing, considering I can get the p8p67m-pro for 155...

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