Sandy Bridge decisions

[Kruug]

I have a i5-2500k that is very overclockable and i want to upgrade. I have heard that my p68 Msi motherboard doesn't support trim for ssd. My questions are

Is this really important?
Is this correct that it doesn't support trim?
What chipset should I look for?
Any standout boards that are under $150 I should look at?

I'm not picky, Atx , micro Atx or mini itx it's all good to me, I have a case for all three.

Thanks!

 

[Darkbreeze]

This is the board I'd recommend that meets all your criteria. Not positive about TRIM on that board though, but I'll check into it. It does have an 8+4 power phase so it's a very decent OC'ing board for the price.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($128.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $128.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-09 22:22 EST-0500

 

[nikoli707]

your far too close to skylake/ddr4 and gm210/berumda to even think of replacing a 2500k. trim does speed up the ssd when it needs to write over a deleted block, but it shouldn't be much of a deal breaker. for most of us, we just have the os and a couple games on the ssd and use a mechanical for other games and media files. most of your writes should be small so performance shouldn't suffer much. newer ssds have internal measures of garbage collection and now that make certain aspects of trim somewhat obsolete. otherwise find a used z68 or z77 on ebay.

the mars rovers ssd is just now starting to fail, so its pretty safe to say that if your ssd is newer than 3 years ago, you will not be losing sectors anytime soon even without trim. by the time it dies, you will have replaced it with a 1tb or 2tb ssd.

 

[Darkbreeze]

It supports Intel rapid start technology so it should support TRIM. Make sure you install the latest version of IRST and update your bios if you go with that board.

 

[Darkbreeze]

your far too close to skylake/ddr4 and gm210/berumda to even think of replacing a 2500k.

Nikoli, he was asking about replacing the board, not the CPU, in case you overlooked that.

 

[nikoli707]

your far too close to skylake/ddr4 and gm210/berumda to even think of replacing a 2500k.

Nikoli, he was asking about replacing the board, not the CPU, in case you overlooked that.

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