Major issue

[Diceair]

Hi there.

 

I'm from South Africa

 

first my specs

 

i7-3770k

16GB corsair vengeance 1600mhz

2x AMD radeon r9-280x

Sound blaster z sound card

Corsair H100i stock fans in push

Qnix QX2710 @ 96Hz - 110Hz

Corsair air carbide 540

 

 

So I sit with a BIG issue. My motherboard went faulty and my supplier gave me my money back on it. motherboard was a z77a-g45 thunderbolt. Now the thing is they don't have any z77 motherboards in stock but I believe they might have the following in stock for not to much. 

 

http://game.msi.com/product/motherboard/z87-mpower

 

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/B75AG43.html

 

now i could get the plain motherboard as the gaming one just sound like marketing gimmick for what I want to do now anyway. This is just temporarily until next chips comes out that will run cooler and overclock a bit better. I could get that and run 1 card or will i be better off with the following

 

i7-4770k/i5-4670k

 

MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming

 

or

 

MSI z87 Mpower.

 

I'm planning on just playing games like BF4 and some future games. I'm just scared future games might actually make use of more threads. I know the 4770k is just the 4670k with hyperthreading on the cpu and might run a bit hotter. So what do you guys thing. is the z87 mpower really worth it or should I go z87-gd65 gaming or maybe just do the quick fix and run with only 1 card and get okish performance but have more money for when new chips comes out.

 

 

At the moment I'm running the following that I borrowed from work.

 

i7-2600 non k

p67a-gd65

Radeon 6670 (my r9-280x is pushing against the sata ports so it won't fit and the case is even to small)

 

 

So what do you guys suggest?

 

Regards

[Vendetta]

Well I can tell you that your 3770k will not work with a z87 mpower board, it will work with the z77 mpower. If that b75 board is the only one you can get then I would just sell the 3770k (or send to me <3 ) and grab a 4670k and z87 gd65 gaming board.

[Altecice]

Games prefer higher processor speed over the amount of cores. I don't see this changing any time soon.

 

If you are wanting to do any overclocking at all I would go with a gaming mobo as it seems as if manufactures are lumping gaming+OC'able motherboards together as one category.

[flibberdipper]

Games prefer higher processor speed over the amount of cores. I don't see this changing any time soon.

 

If you are wanting to do any overclocking at all I would go with a gaming mobo as it seems as if manufactures are lumping gaming+OC'able motherboards together as one category.

Getting there. They seem to like better IPC (which is why Intel is so damn good in single-threaded or multi-threaded applications).

 

That said, the MPower is worth it, unless you want to upgrade to z97/x99 when it comes out, then you should go with the cheaper one.

[ERSCreeper]

Nvm

[Diceair]

wow such fast response. Amazing forum this is. I know the 3770k won't fit in the z87 motherboards cause 3770k is 15 and z87 is 1150. So I don't have a real answer yet. Should I use the 3770k and get something like a b75 I mentioned and then use only 1 card for now untill I can upgrade in june. I'm thinking about going maxwell anyway when it comes out.

 

but still unsure if I really need the 4770k or if the 4670k should be enough if I you guys ell me rather go that route. I'm just scared that I might end up with cpu that runs super hot on low overclock. oh and another thing what makes the mpower really better than the z87 GD65 gaming? Will I get more overclocking out of it? I'm not going for world class overclocking and the mpower is quite a bit more expensive than the gaming. My graphics cards is the r9-280x gaming so maybe it will even blend in with the gaming motherboard but i don't really care that about looks anymore. Oh and if I upgrade to 4670k/4770k would my overclock suffer from the 1600mhz Corsair vengeance ram?

[Vendetta]

wow such fast response. Amazing forum this is. I know the 3770k won't fit in the z87 motherboards cause 3770k is 15 and z87 is 1150. So I don't have a real answer yet. Should I use the 3770k and get something like a b75 I mentioned and then use only 1 card for now untill I can upgrade in june. I'm thinking about going maxwell anyway when it comes out.

 

but still unsure if I really need the 4770k or if the 4670k should be enough if I you guys ell me rather go that route. I'm just scared that I might end up with cpu that runs super hot on low overclock. oh and another thing what makes the mpower really better than the z87 GD65 gaming? Will I get more overclocking out of it? I'm not going for world class overclocking and the mpower is quite a bit more expensive than the gaming. My graphics cards is the r9-280x gaming so maybe it will even blend in with the gaming motherboard but i don't really care that about looks anymore. Oh and if I upgrade to 4670k/4770k would my overclock suffer from the 1600mhz Corsair vengeance ram?

If the b75 motherboard is your only choice and you want your rig back up and running even down a gpu then it will work but I personally wouldn't. Also just grab the 4670k, it is a phenomenal cpu and the mpower will allow you to OC higher but honestly you will need a seriously custom water cooling loop and a CPU that can actually go that high. A z87 gd65 gaming will easily allow you to OC to 4.8Ghz and higher if you chip can do it. Also no, 1600Mhz ram will not make your OC unstable. 1600Mhz is the standard these days.

[Diceair]

If the b75 motherboard is your only choice and you want your rig back up and running even down a gpu then it will work but I personally wouldn't. Also just grab the 4670k, it is a phenomenal cpu and the mpower will allow you to OC higher but honestly you will need a seriously custom water cooling loop and a CPU that can actually go that high. A z87 gd65 gaming will easily allow you to OC to 4.8Ghz and higher if you chip can do it. Also no, 1600Mhz ram will not make your OC unstable. 1600Mhz is the standard these days.

 

 

cool bit of info so you say it's better to go 4670k. but doesn't battlefield 4 and possibly upcoming games use more threads making the 4770k more future proof? so just want some more confirmation here as to what I should do to decide what is the bestoption. If i go b75 now i would definatly upgrade to haswell refresh or broadwell. I can always lower graphics settings a bit and mantle might be ready soon for my card so about a 10FPS increase in BF4 is good. oh and with dx12 coming next year i might be able to hold on a bit longer with the cpu. 

 

I also don't see why I need i7 but was just thinking maybe I can be a bit more future proof. i don't see the developers making games a lot faster with i7's as there is to many people rnning i5's in their systems but maybe because I'm running 2560x1440 @ 96Hz - 110Hz. For memory i will just stick with my 1600mhz. I feel that doesn't impact performance that much.

[Diceair]

So anyone else that can comment on what I should do? need some more people convincing me what to do. just one person saying get haswell is not enough for me.