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- Jun 28, 2012
Gotcha. Yea, that makes sense. If you go with the 4790K, OP, all you need is a board which will support it. It boosts pretty high on it's own, so you don't need an "overclocking-friendly" mobo. Just google whichever board you do go with regarding ram speeds. My experience was with the Asrock H97 Pro4. Could only get it to boot with RAM whose default (and XMP profile) was CAS9/1600Mhz. Higher speed was a no-go (I tried 1866 and 2133). Lower latency also a no-go (tried C7/1600). YMMV with other H97 boards, just something to keep in mind.
This is typical, only the Z boards allow for RAM overclocking (which is anything over 1600MHz 9-9-9 according to Intel)