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Help picking a 1155 mobo

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Recon00

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Alright, I'm going to give up what I'm buying/what I've bought, and try to give a good idea what I may be using it for.

I've got an i5-2500k (not sure I'm going to over clock, but wanted the option to)
4GB DDR3 1300 RAM, have a 1TB 7200rpm drive, eventually getting a SSD for the OS and some games, have a 950W psu. Getting one (and eventually 2 for CFX) Radeon 6950....I'm reading this, and it's a mess, sorry, it's my first time posting for help, first time building a pc....

I plan on playing games. Lots of games. There may come a time when photo editing will happen, but primarily this is going to be a gaming rig. I don't torrent, don't plan on needing to swap massive amounts of data, don't plan on using VM's...not sure what else I might use it for... ask me about ______ if you think it's worth looking at, cause I just don't know. Been blissfully ignorant for too long. I've heard the term p67, and the guy at microcenter tried to sale me a sabertooth p67, but other than that, I know nothing....🙂

Thanks for any help.
 
P67 is what you want for overclocking but doesn't allow use of integrated graphics. H67 doesn't allow overclocking but does allow use of the integrated graphics.
Asus, gigabyte, Evga, asrock, all have good reliable motherboards. From what I've read you'd want to stay away from ecs and biostar but I have no personal experience with them. Intel makes solid stable boards but are usually lacking in the overclocking department.
 
You want a recommendation? ASUS P8P67 Pro. It can do Crossfirex and SLI so you are set for both ATI and Nvidia. It comes with an Intel NIC and is a great all around board. It will also let you overclock if you decide. Its about $190.00.
 
The Intel® Desktop Board DP67BGB3 would be a good board for you. The board is in our Extreme series and is well set up for overclocking and performance oriented computing. It will support both Crossfire and SLI in an x8/x8 configuration.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team
 
Are there any that wouldn't do this?

BTW, you can come down about 300 watts on your power supply spec. You're looking at drawing 600 watts max.
 
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