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[Mauru]

I5 4570

 

Asus H81m-A

 

GTX 760/970

 

Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB)

 

Western Digital 1TB Blue 7200rpm

 

Seasonic M12II-520 Evo

 

 

Q> Asus H81m-A Good?

 

Q> Do i need higher Wattage if i choose the 970 

 

Q> Does H81 support Dual Channel Memory?

 

Q> Better Mobo out there?

 

Q> Is there any compatibility issues? will this build work ?

[Fate]

1> Not sure, sorry - but Asus does make very good motherboards.

2> No, I believe the 970 only uses about 10 more watts but it is much more powerful

3> I believe it only works when 1 dimm is filled up, but there's really not much performance gain anyways iirc.

4> Again, not sure.

5> It should work.

[KRImSIN]

I think it's pretty good don't really see any problems.....

Power seems fine.

Motherboard is good. (Could get better)

Gpu get the 970 it's worth it!

H81 does support dual channel memory.

[brob]

All Intel 8x and 9x chipset motherboards with more than one memory socket should support dual channel memory. Dual channel requires two matching memory modules.

 

There are few reliable studies of dual channel memory performance on Haswell but the improvement over single channel operation is likely in the 10%-20% range.