Compatible Issues with CPU's and GPU's

[holycharlie246]

Hi, i have one question for all of you PC people. If the motherboard is compatible with CPU and GPU it doesn't matter want brand either of them are? right?



PS: thanks for the help and answers

 

[junkeymonkey]

should not. when everything from the brand is peeled back it still the reference card from amd or NVidia

 

[geofelt]

True... I think.
Exactly what did you have in mind?

 

[holycharlie246]

Oh, ok. And im thinking about getting a Asus Z97-A motherboard and i was wondering if an Intel i5 4690k and a Radeon R9 280 would be compatible with the motherboard

 

[junkeymonkey]

the card should but you ned to lok at the boards cup compatabilty list to see about the chip ..I'm sure it is but you may need to check the bios release for it [ say the board started with bios 1202 but you see your chip is supported with bios 1210 so your good if the board that you buy is shipped with bios 1210 on it if it ship's with bios 1202 you may be in a little fix]

 

[holycharlie246]

How do you find out what the bios release is for the chip?

 

[junkeymonkey]

looks like your good http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z97A/HelpDesk_CPU/

 

[junkeymonkey]

7 bios updates already on a new board. hmm

 

[holycharlie246]

Thanks for your help, this is my first time building a computer

 

[junkeymonkey]

not to say that any thing is bad or wrong but for me if a new board seems to be getting a lot of bios up dates kinda fast makes me wonder if theres a issue with it that they are trying to resolve? I can see 2 or 4 but 7 ?? seems like a lot for the short time the boards been out [opinion]

 

[holycharlie246]

Yea, do you have any other suggestions for a board

 

[junkeymonkey]

no - it may just be a thing and work out just fine but after my ''last'' asus build I went with a asrock z87 and so far so good I got msi and gigabytes all been good

I just thought it odd that that new a board has that many bios updates