is an H81 board good for i5 4570?

[blake0812]

I got this motherboard, is it good enough? I'm not planning on overclocking

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128667

 

[PPB]

It's more than enough for a non-overclocked i5. Go for it.

 

[inf1nity]

Its fine.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

Yeah, should work and perform fine.

Main reasons to get a more expensive chipset is more memoryslots, sli/crossfire ability, or other extras that they don't put on budget boards, like better audio chip, wifi etc.

I run a H81 system myself, pentium g3258 cpu and a gtx670, no complaints.

 

[Burpo]

Was looking at these last night..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813132249R

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Its fine. The only thing is that you'll be limited to PCIe 2.0 for the 16x slot. But the performance impact is minimal at worst.

 

[blake0812]

Thank you everyone for the comment! Gonna go ahead and order that CPU.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I have that board too. If you already have the board up and running right now, you might consider updating the BIOS to a new version so that you can install an i5-4590 instead of the i5-4570, as it gives you 100MHz more clockspeed for the same price.

 

[papapapapapapapababy]

i got this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-607-_-Product gigabyte ga-b85m-d3h , i have 2 friends with problems using both giga h81 and asus mobos maybe its unrelated @ bad luck but i didnt wanted to risk koss it was only a few bucks and it seems like a solid mobo

 

[blake0812]

I have that board too. If you already have the board up and running right now, you might consider updating the BIOS to a new version so that you can install an i5-4590 instead of the i5-4570, as it gives you 100MHz more clockspeed for the same price.

Eh, well I already ordered the 4570 off of ebay so whatever. Clock rate isn't a big thing for me if the CPU is already powerful enough

 

[blake0812]

WELL TIME FOR AN UPDATE


After looking at the motherboard I decided to take the cpu cover off, and I discovered the pins were slightly bent. I know they're supposed to be bent a certain way but the light shining off shows that they're out of place. What do I use to realign them? I'm kinda freaking out here and I don't want to wait until my CPU comes in Thursday if I can fix this now

 

[blake0812]

So I tried to bend the pins back, but I'm unsure if it'll work, do they have to be bent back perfectly or at least the same direction?

 

[Flapdrol1337]

You shouldn't have touched those pins, and contacted support.

Now you might have broken the board.

 

[blake0812]

You shouldn't have touched those pins, and contacted support.

Now you might have broken the board.

Damn, I might have to send it back then.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

could see if it still works once you get the cpu.

 

[blake0812]

could see if it still works once you get the cpu.

Nah, i'm gonna send it back, better safe then sorry.

Or well I guess i'll just issue an RMA, if the CPU does work i'll keep it, if it doesn't I'll send the board back.