Motherboard for my 7970 Ghz.

[Littlebro]

Hi all,

So.. I'm planning to get me a 7970 Ghz. in combo with a 3470 within the next few weeks. The question is: what motherboard should I get?

Will a ASRock Z77 Pro3 do the trick? I might OC my 7970 a bit in year or two when the games become to difficult for my GPU to handle. Would the suggested mobo be too bad for my set-up? It gets good reviews...


Thanks in advance!

Littlebro.

 

[discordian]

that motherboard would be more than fine

 

[hytecgowthaman]

Mobo and gpu is better but processor is slower compare to mobo and gpu.

 

[hytecgowthaman]

Mobo and gpu is better but processor is slower compare to mobo and gpu.

 

[Littlebro]

Yeah maybe when i have a couple of € spare I spend more on my CPU as well (3570K)

 

[Littlebro]

But I have another question... Can anybody confirm 'processor is slower compared to mobo and GPU'? Because the I5 3470 has very, very good performance. I haven't seen a single game that it struggles with in benchmarks...

Any comments?

 

[bigcyco1]

Hi all,

So.. I'm planning to get me a 7970 Ghz. in combo with a 3470 within the next few weeks. The question is: what motherboard should I get?

Will a ASRock Z77 Pro3 do the trick? I might OC my 7970 a bit in year or two when the games become to difficult for my GPU to handle. Would the suggested mobo be too bad for my set-up? It gets good reviews...


Thanks in advance!

Littlebro.

It would work just fine.I honestly do not understand why one would buy a $400.00 card then use a barley acceptable budget mobo.But no worries to each his/her own. 😉

 

[Littlebro]

Yeah but that's a part of my question: why would I put more money into it when it has all the necessary features in it? And it's not a retoric question btw, I really am curious. Thanks for the reply btw .

 

[redeemer]

Asrock is for penny pinchers, the 7970ghz definitely deserves a better board without a doubt. However that board is a Z77 spec so you card will be fine running on it.

 

[Littlebro]

Yeah but what's the benefit of a more expensive motherboard. I heard that a lot of expensive boards come with unnecessary features. Btw, I won't have an SSD because I don't care about loading times if that matters.

 

[Littlebro]

And I'm saving up for this PC for over a year now. I have a shitty 2008 laptop that can't even play skyrim on lowest setting on decent fps 😛 . I really don't have a lot of money and don't want to spend it on unnecessary things if I can avoid it.

 

[redeemer]

It more the issue of quality and balance, I am not encouraging you to spend more money.

More expensive Motherboard

better NIC
better PCB
better VRM/Phases
better layout
more fan headers
better BIOS features
Error Codes LCD
PWR/Reset switches

of course your finances are important as well, that Asrock board will be fine though so you shouldnt worry go get it

 

[bigcyco1]

It more the issue of quality and balance, I am not encouraging you to spend more money.

More expensive Motherboard

better NIC
better PCB
better VRM/Phases
better layout
more fan headers
better BIOS features
Error Codes LCD
PWR/Reset switches

of course your finances are important as well, that Asrock board will be fine though so you shouldnt worry go get it

+1 😉

 

[Littlebro]

Ok thanks for your help . I'll stick with the simple mobo as it comes with all the basic and necessary features that I need for some mild OC'ing.

 

[muppetlol]

If you intend to overclock ur GPU in the future , you might also consider overclocking ur CPU since it might become a bottleneck in the future for ur GPU to perform well. Get i5 2500k or i5 3570k so you can overclock them in the future.

 

[Littlebro]

Yeah, as I said before: if I have some extra cash I'll buy the 2500K (cheaper) + cooler.