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Best board for Intel 2500K?

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iGypsy

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Help me pick a board! There are so many, and the price range is huge. I'd like to save money, but be able to access relevant features such as sli / crossfire, etc. Thanks!
 
Maximus IV Extreme is what I would consider to be the best board for any unlocked Sandy Bridge processor.

Now, if you would please be a bit more specific about the features that you want/need.
 
$200.00 budget ideally. I'd like to build a solid gaming pc for under $1000
 
iGypsy said:
$200.00 budget ideally. I'd like to build a solid gaming pc for under $1000
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If you're trying to build a solid gaming PC on that budget I wouldn't spend $200 on a motherboard personally. You'd be better off getting a ~$100 motherboard and putting what you saved into video.
 
basically 1155 chips are easy to OC... 4.4ghz at 1.3 (easy), 5.0 at 1.5(dangerous)

I would just look for boards with enough heatsinks over the mosfets/VRMs if you go past EASY mode.

anything else would be features like x16 SLI/CF, how many PCI / x1 slots you need... almost all boards have SATA 6, USB3.0, eSATA, 4 DIMMS
 
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