Best Motherboard for Intel Core i7-4790K

[warren5421]

I had a Intel Core i7-479oK gave to me by my brother who up graided. What would be the best current motherboard to buy. Brother had an Asus board that is broke/stopped working. Had 32 ga memory that he also gave me.

 

[beers]

Any budget or feature requirement?

 

[warren5421]

Up to $350. I have no idea what this CPU can do. Board must take the 32 ga of mem I have.

 

[Moka67]

What's the ram frequency ?

And are you going to overclock it ?

 

[beers]

'ga' is a really awkward phrasing. Or are you saying 'guh' like G as a word?

Depends on your goals, unless you have a particular requirement there isn't a huge difference between a $120 board and a $300 board.

 

[hogdaddy]

I am using an Asus Z97-AR and it does fine.

 

[C4C]

+1 for the ASUS Z97-A. My friend really enjoyed the build I did for him. It's been about 6 months and he hasn't had an issue with the mobo

 

[spirit]

I did a build recently with an i7 4790K and a Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 5 and it all went well and the Gaming 5 is a good board. I didn't need to upgrade the BIOS on the Gaming 5 to get the 4790K support because it already had a BIOS that supported it.

The Gaming 5 is probably cheaper than what you are looking for but general rule of thumb is that Gigabyte boards are great, as are ASUS and MSI boards too (but I usually stick to Gigabyte now for new builds).