What is a good motherboard for a Intel processor

[Joshua92]

I have a DIYPC Skyline-07-G Black/Green SECC ATX Full Tower Gaming. I am currently looking to go from a u atx with a amd fx 6120 to a atx full motherboard that can handle the latest i7 or just a i7. What is a good motherboard???

 

[Tradesman1]

What CPU are you looking at, to move to Intel will need an Intel CPU - Do you have a budget for mobo and CPU?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($419.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($153.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $573.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-20 11:30 EST-0500

 

[Tradesman1]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($419.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($153.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $573.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-20 11:30 EST-0500

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+1 Good pick - will also need DDR4 DRAM with a Skylake build

 

[Joshua92]

What CPU are you looking at, to move to Intel will need an Intel CPU - Do you have a budget for mobo and CPU?

how many series of the i7 is there? I just want a bigger mobo and a intel i7 cpu that can handle streaming/recording from OBS Multiplatform without issues my current cpu cant handle running a game and work obs it speeds up and slows down and repeats the noise is annoying after a while.

 

[Tradesman1]

Skylake is the latest release, prior was the Haswell refresh (like the 4790-4790K) and Z97 mobos (1150 socket) which are very viable for the next couple of years and beyond which run with DDR3. Asus Z97-A is a good model for this, I went with the Z97 Hero

 

[Zerk2012]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ccWcRB
I cant see spending the extra 130 bucks for skylake.
Very good motherboard I own it.

 

[Calvin7]

Intel Core i7-6700K is one of the 6th Generation Intel Core i7 Processors. It uses Socket LGA 1151.

The previous model uses Socket LGA 1150.
5th Generation Intel Core i7 Processors
Intel Core i7-5775R Processor
(6M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz)
Intel Core i7-5775C Processor
(6M Cache, up to 3.70 GHz)

4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processors
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/75023/4th-Generation-Intel-Core-i7-Processors#@Desktop

Intel Socket 1150 motherboards for the 5th/New 4th/4th Generation Core i7:
Asus Z97-A
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132118

ASRock H97 Pro4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157511

Z97 chipset motherboards can be used for overclocking with Intel Core processors with a "K" suffix.

The K on the Intel Core processors is used to show that the processor has an unlocked multiplier. By unlocking the multiplier it allows easy overclocking.

The H97 chipset motherboard is more of a non-overclocker. H97 motherboard and non "K" CPU are less expensive. There are also cheaper chipset models.

 

[Joshua92]

Skylake is the latest release, prior was the Haswell refresh (like the 4790-4790K) and Z97 mobos (1150 socket) which are very viable for the next couple of years and beyond which run with DDR3. Asus Z97-A is a good model for this, I went with the Z97 Hero

so the ASUS Z170-A ATX DDR4 is good because I do have ddr3
second what the difference between Intel Core i7-4790 Processor - BX80646I74790 http://goo.gl/v9KqQu and Intel Boxed Core I7-6700K 4.00 GHz 8M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I76700K http://goo.gl/oqeZo0

ps this is my curruent specs http://goo.gl/koZZBb the only thing that changed is my case, power supply which is a 750 watts and my video card is a evga gtx 970

 

[Joshua92]

My mind is blown there is a lot of i7 from quad core to 4 to 8 all the way up to 16. and I am just looking to have a better gaming when streaming or recording lol

 

[Zerk2012]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ccWcRB

 

[Tradesman1]

Gaming/streaming - if you want to use your current DDR3 the the Intel i7 4790K with the Z97-A mobo, if moving to DDR4 then 6700K and Z170-A from Asus are good picks

 

[Joshua92]

What CPU are you looking at, to move to Intel will need an Intel CPU - Do you have a budget for mobo and CPU?

ya new mobo with ddr4 i7 either 3.5 or 4 ghz cores 12 but is intel that good with just 8 cores

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes, you could go Xeon for more cores or over to the X99 platform, but that would depend on how heavily you have a need for all the cores

 

[Joshua92]

Yes, you could go Xeon for more cores or over to the X99 platform, but that would depend on how heavily you have a need for all the cores

i just want to make sure i can run anything and stream/record without issues and nice and quiet

 

[Tradesman1]

Either 4790K or 6700K should be fine 😉 Would go minimum of 16GB of DRAM

 

[Joshua92]

Either 4790K or 6700K should be fine 😉 Would go minimum of 16GB of DRAM

so that mobo you showed me would work with the 8 or12 core

 

[Tradesman1]

Are you talking the X(( base? If so need an X99 mobo

 

[Joshua92]

Are you talking the X(( base? If so need an X99 mobo

ASUS Z170-A ATX DDR4 http://goo.gl/DGzvog with this i7 http://goo.gl/h9AF4p

 

[Tradesman1]

No the 980 X is an old CPU that ran in socket 1366, for a Z97 need an 1150 socket CPU - 1150 is limited to 4 cores or 8 (with Hyperthreading enabled)

http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket_1150_LGA1150_H3.html

 

[Joshua92]

No the 980 X is an old CPU that ran in socket 1366, for a Z97 need an 1150 socket CPU - 1150 is limited to 4 cores or 8 (with Hyperthreading enabled)

http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket_1150_LGA1150_H3.html

I apologize but trying to figure out how I want to do this has been drive me nuts I found this Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 2011-v3 thread it to 12 http://goo.gl/ZiY2DP comes with no fan which is dum and this Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard. I think I might just build a custom from a website

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes the 5930 is an X99 (mentioned above) based CPU 6 Cores, 12 with multithreading, it too is one that will use DDR4