Looking for a LGA 1150 ATX Motherboard (for an i7 4790k)

[godlyace]

I was looking for a motherboard with a LGA 1150 socket for a high end PC. Must be <$300.

 

 

 

I was looking at the Asus z97 Mark S for now, any other suggestions?

[007agentHP]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128702&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

[lani100]

I was looking for a motherboard with a LGA 1150 socket for a high end PC. Must be <$300.

 

 

 

I was looking at the Asus z97 Mark S for now, any other suggestions?

Nice board you can go with a Z97 ranger if you want but this board is so damn sexy.

[SeanAngelo]

I was looking for a motherboard with a LGA 1150 socket for a high end PC. Must be <$300.

 

 

 

I was looking at the Asus z97 Mark S for now, any other suggestions?

MSI Z97 Gaming 5

Asus Maximus Z97 VII Hero

MSI Z97S Krait

Asus Z97-E

Asus Z97-A

Asus Z97 Mark 1

[Elfuego]

have you bought the CPU already?

[godlyace]

have you bought the CPU already?

Not yet, but im decided on the i7 4790k . 

[Elfuego]

Not yet, but im decided on the i7 4790k . 

 

Please seriously look at the 5820K and X99. There is literally 0 point in mainstream i7s anymore, its i5 or go X99..

[Curufinwe_wins]

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

i7-4790k is still king of the single thread performance. As we have to deal with games being developed by shops of all levels of coding sophistication, a higher clock speed and low core count is still going to give you a better overall experience than large multi-core procs with slower clock cores. If you think this is annoying for $60 titles, trust me.... its super annoying that these cheap processors run the $300,000 / per seat / per year licensed software better than the $20,000 workstations running top of the line dual E5-2699v3. We live in a time were poor coding across the board is the biggest limiting factor in pushing new hardware.

Just saying that benchmark cannot possibly be right. No way a 3.1 Ghz xeon is second best single core out there.

Every single bit of data we have says clock for clock skylake>broadwell>haswell.

(Assuming edram isn't a notable boost).

With that in mind, at the same voltages (say 1.4 or something) a 4790k should hit around 5.0 GHz, an x99 chip should hit 4.5-4.7 (4.5 and 4.6 is most common), and the 6700k should hit 4.7-4.8.

At those speeds the 6700k and 4790k should be roughly on par with each other and the x99 chips should lag behind by less than 3% (because cache actually does help).

Ofc then the x99 will obliterate if using more than 4 threads, but just as you say, few programs manage to use that many. (Although it is quite doable to run them in parallel.)

I won't say x99 or bust, but I would argue the differences in single core are minimal enough that I would personally recommend it more than a 4790k due to all the other factors available to the x99 (and to a lesser extent the z170) chipset.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Otherwise I've heard good things to the msi gaming series for z97 and the gigabyte z97x gaming gt is supposedly a very good z97 mobo.

[Elfuego]

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

 

i7-4790k is still king of the single thread performance.  As we have to deal with games being developed by shops of all levels of coding sophistication, a higher clock speed and low core count is still going to give you a better overall experience than large multi-core procs with slower clock cores.  If you think this is annoying for $60 titles, trust me.... its super annoying that these cheap processors run the $300,000 / per seat / per year licensed software better than the $20,000 workstations running top of the line dual E5-2699v3.  We live in a time were poor coding across the board is the biggest limiting factor in pushing new hardware.

 

Unlike Xeons these are K Series chips so can b e easily overclocked to 4.4Ghz+... Which is really not noticeable vs 4.5/4.7 of Skylake/haswell E quad cores

[Kevguy]

ASUS Z-97 Pro is just under $300 and goes real nice with a 4790K.

[Kevguy]

Please seriously look at the 5820K and X99. There is literally 0 point in mainstream i7s anymore, its i5 or go X99..

Dude, not sure whee you get your logic. The i7-4790K Where it's at these days in terms of price with performance. Even with skylake and x99 cpu's considered. The sales and reviews blatantly show this.

[Elfuego]

The major value of those chips comes in the # PCIE lanes.  If you plan to do dual video cards, 40 lanes should be a requirement.  That way you can dual 16x lane cards and another 8x for an NVMe drive.

 

I'd honestly hold off on skylake until mid to late 2016, without PCI Gen4 support, it's a waste.

 

x8 Doesnt really bottleneck cards.

 

but yes I went 40lane because I will soon be swapping to PCI-E SSds

[Elfuego]

Dude, not sure whee you get your logic. The i7-4790K Where it's at these days in terms of price with performance. Even with skylake and x99 cpu's considered. The sales and reviews blatantly show this.

 

Wut?

 

Its not much cheaper than a 5820K and both will OC to 4.5Ghz or so. Plus 2 extra cores is win.

[Astralify]

Another vote for x99. 5820k + Asrock Extreme4 mobo and you're golden.