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Cheap mobo as bottleneck?

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As long as the motherboard is compatible with the CPU of your choice then it won't bottleneck your CPU's stock performance. It will however limit the maximum overclock you will be able to achieve because a large part of that is how good the power delivery circuitry is on the board, on cheaper boards if you OC too high the board might throttle the CPU to (for me when I had a cheap board) 1.4GHz , until the power delivery system cools down and the clock jumps back... 

 

Then again Haswell apparently doesn't overclock that well so... not sure it it would make a huge difference there. 

Also make sure the board you buy has all the features you want / need.

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I'm palnning on upgrade before september. It'll include mobo, cpu, ram, ssd and cpu cooler. My budget is 750€ including shipping, so about 700€. I'm palnning on getting i7 either Ivy 3770K or Haswell 4770K. Haven't decided which yet. Since mobo is propably easiest place to save some money, question follows. Will cheaper mobo be bottleneck with i7 cpus? I will do some OC. Atm I'm making decitions between boards that are in ~100€ range and under 150€ range (for z87 boards it's bit higher price points).

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As long as you keep to the Z77 and Z87 chipsets, you can't really go wrong.

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either go Z77 with an Ivy I5 or I7 for overclocking OR a Z87 with a Haswell I5 or I7, it all depends on what the prices are and what features you are looking for :)
 

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As long as the motherboard is compatible with the CPU of your choice then it won't bottleneck your CPU's stock performance. It will however limit the maximum overclock you will be able to achieve because a large part of that is how good the power delivery circuitry is on the board, on cheaper boards if you OC too high the board might throttle the CPU to (for me when I had a cheap board) 1.4GHz , until the power delivery system cools down and the clock jumps back... 

 

Then again Haswell apparently doesn't overclock that well so... not sure it it would make a huge difference there. 

Also make sure the board you buy has all the features you want / need.

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Do you really need a I7? what is your use case scenario? Gaming a lot of rendering? Just thinking you may be able to go with a i5 CPU and spend a little more on a motherboard and get some better features that cheaping out on some other things.

 

I want cpu-mobo combo I don't need to uprgrade in next 5 years. And if I cheap something else than mobo, it's going to be ssd.

 

 

As long as the motherboard is compatible with the CPU of your choice then it won't bottleneck your CPU's stock performance. It will however limit the maximum overclock you will be able to achieve because a large part of that is how good the power delivery circuitry is on the board, on cheaper boards if you OC too high the board might throttle the CPU to (for me when I had a cheap board) 1.4GHz , until the power delivery system cools down and the clock jumps back... 

 

Then again Haswell apparently doesn't overclock that well so... not sure it it would make a huge difference there. 

Also make sure the board you buy has all the features you want / need.

 

This was answer I was waiting, thx.

 

Don't go with the asrock extreme 4. While I have an asrock board before and was very statisfied, I have heard that the extreme 4 has pretty crappy vrm

 

I'll keep that in mind.

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And if I cheap something else than mobo, it's going to be ssd.

Right... I do not recommend that. I can assure you that the performance gain you'll get in Windows and programs and just... the overall snappiness you get from an SSD is much higher and more beneficial than what you would get from a... 25% vs 10% overclock.

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I was going to get that with an 3930K. Guess I will have to dig deeper into my pockets...

My suggestion was meant for the Z77 extreme 4. I dont know about the X79 extreme 4. Can't really give you any tips on that one. Maybe you should create a tread asking about the vrm on the X79 extreme4

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