Motherboard for I5 4690. Asus B85m-g and gaming build

[mettv88]

Hi, I am upgrading my current build to a Intel i5 4690 and I am not sure about the motherboard to my config. I was looking at the Asus B85m-g because it has good features and a good price but in all places they said that is not a motherboard for a gamer pc. What is that mean? In my case I am not going to OC any component (neither cpu, vga, ram, nothing) neither make use of SLI. I currently have a GTX 750 Ti but I dont want to discard the posibility of a GTX 1070 (or GTX 970) for the next year.

BWT I also read this thread. Is this an isolated case or is a common problem in this motherboards when is used with high power demanding video cards?
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2428561/asus-b85m-motherboard-support-zotac-gtx-970.html

And I have other important doubt. This mobo supports ddr3 of 1600MHz : It is safe to put two ddr3 1866MHz? It will downgrade automatically to 1600MHz without problem? Or should I buy ddr3 1600MHz? I am asking because they are at the same price in my city.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lutfij]

You can populate ram sticks that are higher spec'd than 1600MHz but they will be downclocked to run at 1600MHz speeds with relaxed latencies. If there is a problem setting the frequency's and latency in BIOS manually will alleviate the issue provided you've made sure your BIOS is up to date. The price difference between DDR3 1600 and DDR3 1866 isn't much so I'd suggest picking which ever is cheaper, if you're going to stick to the B85 chipset motherboard. Reason I posted with a hint of doubt is because we are unsure if you're running the 4690(standalone version) or the K suffix version(which is capable of being overclocked but will require the Z97 chipset motherboard to pull off that feat.

For concern's of a bottleneck it's advised you will need to overclock your processor(which isn't possible on the B85 chipset motherboard) should you choose to drop in a GTX1070 later down the road. You would also need to make sure your PSU and the rest of your parts tie in with your system.