MOBO Recommendations for a Budget Gamer

[Thores651]

Looking to replace a failing ASRock MOBO, have an i7 with 16 GB rams with a one year old GTX 1060 (will eventually replace). What are some great MOBOs? Not sure I want to go back to ASRock, have had the ethernet port stop functioning, along with eradicate usb ports.

Price range around $150

 

[spdragoo]

What model of Core i7 do you currently have? Haswell CPU will use a different motherboard than Skylake/Kaby Lake CPUs, which will use completely different ones than Coffee Lake.

And do you want ATX, mATX, or ITX?

 

[Thores651]

i7-4770k CPU @ 3.5 GHZ 4 Cores

 

[Thores651]

ATX

 

[tejayd]

Z87 or Z97 I believe? You're likely going to have to find one used/refurbished.

 

[Thores651]

Current MOBO is a Z97. I was looking at getting this MOBO Gigabyte Z370 AORUS ULTRA GAMING WIFI LGA 1151 ATX Intel Motherboard

 

[Thores651]

So, its looking like I'll have to do a complete rebuild.

 

[spdragoo]

Ah, yeah, that's pretty much going to be a new system, as it's going to be hard to find a replacement motherboard. Just on a quick search, PCPartPicker shows only 1 Z87 ATX board available for almost $300 USD, & only 1 Z97 ATX board available for almost $700 USD (https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#c=89,99&f=2&m=8,9,42,14,15,18,21,22,27,94,41,46,39,40&sort=price). At those prices, you might as well just go with a new system.