Ok so someone recently took pity on me and gifted me an Intel i5 LGA 1150. All I gotta do is get a MB since everything else I have moves over just fine. That said, I guess I'm more out of touch than I realized and finding a board is proving more challenging than I anticipated.
So what I'm looking for.
MSI/Asus/Gigabyte are my preferred boards.
I would like to drop less than $200 if possible, I'm not doing tons of overclocking right now and I just need something that is solid and performs.
As many usb 3.0 ports as possible
Preferably decent audio as my audio card bit the dust and I can't afford a new one right this moment.
ATX standard and not a super cheap featureless board.
Sounds easy right? Well I do have one additional requirement that I thought was a given, but evidently I was wrong. I don't want any integrated video on the board. I use high end video cards and really don't want the additional ports/performance drain associated with that unneeded garbage. I go to newegg/amazon and it just seems like every damn board has video tacked on. Honestly I'm at a complete loss for why as last time I built that was never an issue. You only saw that garbage on low end super budget boards meant for resellers pushing garbage pre-builts. I have no clue why there are boards labled "Gaming, performance, OCing" with crap integrated video.
So what I'm looking for.
MSI/Asus/Gigabyte are my preferred boards.
I would like to drop less than $200 if possible, I'm not doing tons of overclocking right now and I just need something that is solid and performs.
As many usb 3.0 ports as possible
Preferably decent audio as my audio card bit the dust and I can't afford a new one right this moment.
ATX standard and not a super cheap featureless board.
Sounds easy right? Well I do have one additional requirement that I thought was a given, but evidently I was wrong. I don't want any integrated video on the board. I use high end video cards and really don't want the additional ports/performance drain associated with that unneeded garbage. I go to newegg/amazon and it just seems like every damn board has video tacked on. Honestly I'm at a complete loss for why as last time I built that was never an issue. You only saw that garbage on low end super budget boards meant for resellers pushing garbage pre-builts. I have no clue why there are boards labled "Gaming, performance, OCing" with crap integrated video.