Motherboard Question!

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OneEyedEd

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Hey everyone, quick motherboard and CPU question!

I'm helping my friend build a new gaming rig and had a couple questions regarding a few of the parts he bought. He is currently strapped for cash and is pretty much at his budget limit so he plans to transfer his GTX 460 from his old rig until he can buy a new card. The mobo he bought off of newegg is a MSI B75A-G43. I wasn't overly thrilled with his purchase and I also couldn't find any definitive answers to my questions online. So we were hoping you guys could clear the air for us!

1) Will the board support a single Nvidia card? Everything I've seen about this board points to it only supporting AMD crossfire, so I'm assuming it dosn't support SLI. That being said will it support his one GTX 460 and a future Nvidia single card upgrade?

2) Does this board support overclocking of the CPU etc...? I've looked on a bunch of forums and most people are saying that it dosn't or not very well. The box however says it has "1 sec overclocking OC genie 2".

3) He bought a Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge. I was thinking he should have gone with a i5 k or i7 k to allow for the overclocking ability. Would it be worth returning for that or would the difference be negligible? I was thinking it might have been smarter to have gone with the i5 k and spend that extra money on a better motherboard, since he's pretty much at his limit already. Thoughts?

Any other thoughts, opinions or concerns about this motherboard or about the rig in general are more than welcome! If the motherboard turns out to be a bad option he can easily return it and get something else... So suggestions are welcome!

Thanks in advance for the help everyone!

His specs will be:

MSI B75A-G43
Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge
Nvidia GTX 460
Team Xtreem Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
250g Blue western digital HDD
a FSP 1000w PSU
Corsair 400R case
LG optical drive
 
Yeah you can run one 460 in that board without a problem and don't bother getting the K unless he is really desperate to overclock. You can probably overclock with that board but it's not the best board for overclocking in the world, so you may as well just stick with the 3770.

He should have gotten a 3570K and a better board if he wants to overclock, yes. What's he doing that requires an i7? The 3570K is all you need for gaming.
 
If he's not bothered with overclocking just leave him with the B75 and the 3770.

Wouldn't waste your time getting stuff exchanged.
 
Yeah that's something he needs to think about. The other issue is if he wants to SLI his cards at some point. If he does I'm assuming another mobo will be needed?
 
Yeah looks like he may need a new board if he wants to do that.

When he wants to go SLI, just get him an i5 4670K and a Z87 board unless you can can get a good Z77 board for cheap.
 
Well money for him is going to be quite tight for awhile. I'm assuming this build of his will need to last him roughly 3 years. A second card is probably all he'll be able to do. Maybe we'll just go for a Z77 board now.
 
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If you wouldn't mind explaining your reasoning that would be greatly appreciated. That ASRock comes with free 2x4gb memory.
 
Is a second 460 really required?

Honestly besides not being able to overclock and add another card, his build is fine.

If he's happy with what he's got now, just leave it. If not, yeah maybe go Z77 and get the UD3H. Gigabyte's boards are generally higher quality than ASRock's.
 
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