About to replace my mobo... suggestions?

[j03h4gLund]

After hours and hours and days of troubleshooting, I'm about to just start replacing each piece of my system until the issue is fixed, starting with my motherboard. Any suggestions as to a good board for this overclocking build? Looking to spend around $100-$150 and am not opposed to spending more if it means more performance. Primarily this rig is for gaming. SLI is a must.

Thanks for the suggestions ahead of time.

 

[techpun]

this is to replace the motherboard in your signature?

 

[crazymonkeyzero]

I presume you are looking for an 1155 board for your sandy 2500k correct? You should definitely go with the z77 chipset, in case you want to upgrade to ivy in the future for optimal performance. I just answered a similar topic on another thread, so I just copied most of the following below.

Here some good gaming mobo choices imo. Should be able to get some decent OC and sli support is there as well.

My choice for less than $150
Asrock

IMO Asrock Z77 Extreme4 is agreat budget alternative at $135 (120 on sale now ). It will yield almost similar overclocks to boards less than $200, unless you want to milk every last megahertz of the chip, where more expensive boards will be better. If you are strongly set on less than $150, this is definitely the board to buy and is a good bang for the buck. Also comes with 8gb ram free at newegg for a limited time haha.

My choices less than $200

Gigabyte

If you want another board with more bells and whistles go with Gigabyte UD5H. It got the Anandtechs editors choice and is about $180. In terms of Overclocking, it should do a bit better than the extreme4, however, this really only matters on the extent you plan to OC.

Asus

Asus P8Z77-V. You can't really go wrong with this board. It's $190, but comes with onboard wifi, which is a nice perk. Plus it's an Asus.....need I say more?


Anything more expensive (over $200) is pretty much overkill for a gaming pc mobo.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

I'd definitely suggest the Asus P8Z77-V over ASRock. I tried an ASRock board recently after hearing so many great things about them but experienced quality control and OC stability issues on the original board and the RMA replacement. Went back to Asus and it's been flawless (I'm running a P8Z77-V Pro).

Of course that's just my experience with ASRock--many others love them--but I'm guessing that since you're currently experiencing problems with an ASRock board you might not want to get another one of theirs.