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Which of these setups would be the best for gaming?
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Though, I'd get the I5 4690k and a Z97 if you can swing it. Something like this, ASRock Z97 PRO4 + Intel Core i5-4690K, with the walk in combo deal is $259.00 after the $10.00 MIR and before taxes.
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Moved to here 96S10, more appropriate.
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Are you aware that you can get a much cheaper board with that 4590? No need for an extreme 3, or any Z87/97 board (you should definitely go Z97 now. 87 is last year's chipset).
The advantages of the Z boards are overclocking and SLI/CFX abilities, among some other less important stuff.
You can go as low as $69 (or even lower if you dare) with this little feller right here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157547&cm_re=H97-_-13-157-547-_-Product
You will get the same per-clock CPU and GPU performace as you would on a more expensive board. Just no bells and whistles.
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Oh it's 249? Then totally go for it. That's an amazing deal. Just the CPU costs that much here in Cana-duh.
Go for it. Grab a Coolermaster Hyper 212 for $30-35 too.
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The Z97 Anniversary is a bit of a joke actually. The power delivery section is only 4 phase so its going to get really hot of you overclock that chip very far. Minimum ASRock board I'd look at is the Extreme 3.
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Not to much of an OC'er to be honest.
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I really like the Asrock boards of late but I haven't heard anything bad about the Msi board you linked.
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No. Another 4 phaser. Any board sub $100 is going to be very "meh" for overclocking. If you aren't overclocking it doesn't matter.
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just get the z97 pro4 and the i5, you can't go wrong with that, with a few exceptions.
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If you aren't overclocking a $100 motherboard is more than adequate.
