Biostar H61MLV3 still good for gaming

[nic55]

Good day everyone,I had a good gaming pc for a few years and i had no issues with performance,until last year towards the end of the year that my mobo packed up and I had no choice but to sell my cpu and ram. So I want to know whether this motherboard which i know is old can still handle intensive games for this year. Its been months since I never been gaming and I have been using my laptop for the meantime.

I still have my other pc parts from the pc which is:

1tb HDD
GTX 1070
630 watt bronze psu
24 inch LG Full HD 3D LED
gaming keyboard
gaming mouse
Zalman Mid Tower case
5.1 Logitech speakers

So far I bought a second hand i7 3770 and will be getting a secondhand 16gb DDR3 ram. I would like to play games at maximum settings and still enjoy smooth gameplay.Next year i will be upgrading the pc but for the meantime i want to enjoy the last of Ivy bridge generation gaming. Thanks.

 

[nic55]

Forgot to mention I had an i5 3570k overclocked to 4.9ghz and 8gb DDR3 2200mhz

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Yes you will be able to have a smooth gaming experience with the i7-3770.

 

[nic55]

Thanks. I'm not to sure if the 16gb DDR3 ram i will buy which has a high speed like 1866mhz to 2000mhz will run at that speed on the motherboard.

 

[ZRace]

Should work out fine, and since you got the 3770 already, it isn't worth mentioning a platform upgrade.

 

[RobCrezz]

Thanks. I'm not to sure if the 16gb DDR3 ram i will buy which has a high speed like 1866mhz to 2000mhz will run at that speed on the motherboard.

The memory controller is on the CPU. The ram speeds that high are effectively overclocking the memory controller, depends if yours will run it or not.

You wont be overclocking the CPU on that motherboard.

 

[nic55]

Thanks. I'm not to sure if the 16gb DDR3 ram i will buy which has a high speed like 1866mhz to 2000mhz will run at that speed on the motherboard.

The memory controller is on the CPU. The ram speeds that high are effectively overclocking the memory controller, depends if yours will run it or not.

You wont be overclocking the CPU on that motherboard.

I know,but i'm sure it has the bclk feature in the bios.The highest i can see is like maybe 200 mhz more out of the cpu.

 

[RobCrezz]

Sandy and Ivybridge cpus really dont respond well to blck overclocking. If you get it to 105mhz without getting weird crashes and data corruptions I would be surprised.

If you want to overclock, try and find a cheap Z77 motherboard.

 

[nic55]

I had an Asus Z77 motherboard before and it overclocked well but I'm on a tight budget at the moment and i can only buy this motherboard. I'm sure this motherboard won't affect performance in games considering i have a GTX 1070 8gb.

 

[RobCrezz]

Yeah will do fine, just avoid BCLK overclocking (on ivybridge) in my opinion - more hassle than what its worth.

 

[nic55]

Thanks.