intel mbo's question

[adrenochrome]

First time getting an Intel and I'm going with i5 4460 that's gonna be coupled with R9 380.

 

Now I've found a couple of newer H81, B85 boards that support Haswell Refresh out of the box. Now, I know that for AMD you can't pair expensive 125w CPU with cheap board because of power phasing, what about Intel?

 

I really don't need features of Z97 mbo, so will a H81/B85 deliver good and stable performance with this CPU?

[The Official Czex]

First time getting an Intel and I'm going with i5 4460 that's gonna be coupled with R9 380.

 

Now I've found a couple of newer H81, B85 boards that support Haswell Refresh out of the box. Now, I know that for AMD you can't pair expensive 125w CPU with cheap board because of power phasing, what about Intel?

 

I really don't need features of Z97 mbo, so will a H81/B85 deliver good and stable performance with this CPU?

 

Yes, but a BIOS update is required.

[MegaDave91]

Yes

[The_Stig]

Yup, a B85/H81 mobo will be fine. You could run an i7 on them and they still would be fine.

[pokechat8978]

First time getting an Intel and I'm going with i5 4460 that's gonna be coupled with R9 380.

 

Now I've found a couple of newer H81, B85 boards that support Haswell Refresh out of the box. Now, I know that for AMD you can't pair expensive 125w CPU with cheap board because of power phasing, what about Intel?

 

I really don't need features of Z97 mbo, so will a H81/B85 deliver good and stable performance with this CPU?

Yeah, H81/B85/H97 should be more than enough.

[adrenochrome]

Nice. I found this board, looks good and doesn't need bios update for haswell refresh. My case has just 1 usb 3.0 port so that suits me too.

 

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/B85M-HDS%20R2.0/

 

This should be ok?