motherboard for pc gaming ?

[themasterm3]

greetings
i am building my new pc, and I'm confused which motherboard to buy,
i think asus or gigabyte or msi, and i don't know what will fits my needs
my gaming pc specs
kingston hyperx 2x4gb or corsair vengance 2x4gb,
i7 4790k 4ghz, , nividia gtx 970

and i'm consedring to get another gpu so i want motherboard that have SLI
my budget around 200$
any suggestion would be appreciated

 

[-Lone-]

greetings
i am building my new pc, and I'm confused which motherboard to buy,
i think asus or gigabyte or msi, and i don't know what will fits my needs
my gaming pc specs
kingston hyperx 2x4gb or corsair vengance 2x4gb,
i7 4790k 4ghz, , nividia gtx 970

and i'm consedring to get another gpu so i want motherboard that have SLI
my budget around 200$
any suggestion would be appreciated

So you haven't bought these yet? If not, I could recommend better RAM, but for that set up, the Gigabyte gaming 5 motherboard will work very nicely for you.

 

[-Lone-]

This would be the best for you, although I never recommend 8GB of RAM for such a high end PC, but I suppose you don't need it if you're gaming at 1080p or 1440p.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GYvTVn

 

[themasterm3]

gigabye z97 gaming 7 would be better (for long term) ? and if yes what model ?
what you recommend ram 16gb ?
i' gonna do OC and SLI , is there any other recommendations?

 

[-Lone-]

gigabye z97 gaming 7 would be better (for long term) ? and if yes what model ?
what you recommend ram 16gb ?
i' gonna do OC and SLI , is there any other recommendations?

Well, if you have the money, then yeah, get the gaming 7 instead. and if you mean why I recommend 16GB, because then you won't have to upgrade later and stick with 16GB and don't have to worry about it for a couple years. The newer games are getting close to overrun 8GB of RAM and doing that every passing year, I personally don't like to get too close to the breaking point, plus it is a pretty high end pc you have there.

 

[themasterm3]

ok i get it thanks
but i'm confused about what model of z97 gigabyte should i get ?

 

[-Lone-]

ok i get it thanks
but i'm confused about what model of z97 gigabyte should i get ?

By model, you mean form factor? If so, get the ATX since it is bigger and has more features, it is what most people get these days for like multi GPU support. The bigger the board is, the more feature there is.

 

[themasterm3]

one last thing
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4959#ov
can i put 4x4gb ram ?

 

[-Lone-]

one last thing
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4959#ov
can i put 4x4gb ram ?

Yeah, but I'm not sure why you'd want to when there's 2x8 RAMs for that.

 

[themasterm3]

because its cheaper

 

[-Lone-]

because its cheaper

Oh, well, since I doubt you'd ever need 32GB of RAM, so I'd say yeah, go with it if you wanna do it that way. Which RAM are you referring to? The one I linked above, just in different size?

 

[-Lone-]

According to pcpartpicker, the price of 2x8 and 4x4 are the same, maybe by a dollar difference.

 

[themasterm3]

your ram you linked above wont be compatible with this motherboard
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4959#memory%20support%20list
which compatible one should i get 4x4gb?

 

[-Lone-]

How is it not compatible, it is 100% compatible, ask anyone. This one here is the best DDR3 RAM you can get, and that compatibility note below is just saying it won't be running at it's 2400MHz because your CPU doesn't support it until you OC it, so it's nothing to worry about.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3kVJqs

 

[themasterm3]

ok thanks

 

[-Lone-]

ok thanks

No problem, and to add a little more proof to that note, I bought my RAM which is also 2400MHz, but my CPU can only support up to 2133MHz, so my RAM will run at 2133 instead of 2400, so that's what that note means until you OC your CPU to run at it's maximum.