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What specs should a motherboard for a GTX 970 have? The processor will be a i5-4460 (socket: 1150) btw.

Would the card benifit from a PCIe 3.0 x16 instead of a PCIe 2.0 x16? What else is important?

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All mobos with socket 1150 have pcie 3.0, i think

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There would be a 1-2 fps (max) improvment nothing much from 3.0 to 2.0. What motherboard are you looking at?

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PCI 2.0 or 3.0 won't bottleneck the card, and 1150 anyway has 3.0. Any 1150 mobo will be fine.

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There would be a 1-2 fps (max) improvment nothing much from 3.0 to 2.0. What motherboard are you looking at?

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What specs should a motherboard for a GTX 970 have? The processor will be a i5-4460 (socket: 1150) btw.

Would the card benifit from a PCIe 3.0 x16 instead of a PCIe 2.0 x16? What else is important?

For a 970, there is no performance difference between PCIe 3.0 x16 and 2.0 x16

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Usually like 0.5

 

 

There would be a 1-2 fps (max) improvment nothing much from 3.0 to 2.0. What motherboard are you looking at?

 

Actually there  is 0 improvement because 3.0 is just a bandwidth increase. There is only a difference when you have multiple PCIe cards dividing the bandwidth among eachother.

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I haven't decided which motherboard I want to buy. At the moment I'm looking at this:

http://geizhals.de/?cat=mbp4_1150&xf=1244_2~3074_2~4400_2#xf_top

 

What I need:

*µATX

*1150 socket

*1 internal USB 3.0

*1 internal USB 2.0

*6 external USB 2.0

*6 GB/s SATA

 

Those specs don't really make this any easier since every 1150 board has those features (every mATX). Are you going to OC and what CPU you will be using?

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That's not true, there are plenty of 1150 that don't have all of these specs.

I have redecided on the ext USBs: 4x USB 2.0 and 2x USB 3.0 would be okay too.

 

I don't need overclocking capability or anything. I just need a stable, reliable as-cheap-as-possible board.

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