New motherboard

[Wekas]

I'm rebuilding my pc and the only thing left is my mobo, it's a Gigabyte HA65M-D2H-B3. I was wondering if I need to change it for gaming

[Samppa221]

What is your cpu?

[Wekas]

i7-2600 

[Samppa221]

i7-2600 

If you don't need the fancy stuff it will be enough.

[Wekas]

If you don't need the fancy stuff it will be enough.

What do you mean by fancy?

[Samppa221]

What do you mean by fancy?

Like Crossfire or sli or that kind of things

[Wekas]

Like Crossfire or sli or that kind of things

Alright, thanks.

[TEC]

If you don't want multiple GPU's that motherboard is fine. A motherboard has very little to no impact on your performance so it should be fine for 'gaming'.

[domini123]

Just the basic things and make sure it has enough usb front panel concord as well as enough SATA ports

[Wekas]

Just the basic things and make sure it has enough usb front panel concord as well as enough SATA ports

Thanks for reminding me of the SATA ports, I recently bought an Samsung 850 120gb ssd, and my mobo had no Sata3's, so I created a topic asking if I should plug my ssd to Sata2's or GSata3's. I was told GSata3 is the same as Sata3 so I plugged it in my GSata3 port, but my bios shows my ssd as IDE Ch.4 master even if I made it to AHCI

[domini123]

What is recognised as doesn't really matter as long as you get all the performance and it works

[Wekas]

What is recognised as doesn't really matter as long as you get all the performance and it works

SSD performs better on AHCI

[Pankaic]

Keep in mind, not having Sata3 will bottleneck your SSD. That may be enough reason to upgrade the mobo, but it's still up to you.

[Wekas]

Keep in mind, not having Sata3 will bottleneck your SSD. That may be enough reason to upgrade the mobo, but it's still up to you.

What motherboard would you recommend for i7 2600

[Pankaic]

What motherboard would you recommend for i7 2600

I don't really have any suggestions. Just look around for a board that has the features you need for whatever your budget is.