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[PP Mguire]

4570 has a slightly higher clock speed, that's it.

 

[ncore]

4570 has a slightly higher clock speed, that's it.

is it worth going for 4570 than 4430 or its just gonna be a waste of ££? Also is it true that only K series CPUs are enable for OC?

I wanna finalise my new mobo and cpu ready to order probably by tomorrow.

Btw softwares I used are
- Photoshop
- Lightroom
- Text editors (Dreamweaver, Sublime text) but I don't they need that much power.
- Games (Dota 2, CounterStrike and other MMORPG)
- Microsoft office

 

[PP Mguire]

The 4430 is sufficient for what you want to do, it's up to you whether you want to pay the extra cash or not. Only K series processors can overclock with the proper Z series board, in this case the Z87 and 4670k or 4770k.

 

[ncore]

Okay I'm down to these two boards which isn't Z87 since you other mentioned that it's useless to get a z87 if I don't plan to OC.

Any thoughts about these boards?
Mobo 1: MSI H87-G43 Intel H87 Socket 1150 Motherboard - Scan.co.uk

Mobo 2: Gigabyte GA-H87-HD3 Intel H87 Socket 1150 Motherboard - Scan.co.uk

Though just curious, this board says multi-gpu support but only XFire is it really just solely for xFire?

Plan to upgrade my GPU soon once I have the money but I wanna try nVidia this time, kept seeing some youtube builds and forums suggestions that gtx 770 is a good gpu.

CPU: 4430 Core i5

 

[PP Mguire]

Both boards have a second slot that is full length but only 4x electronically. SLI will not work in that mode unless using a hack which is 50/50.

The H87 boards are rather useless compared to the B85s. Just get the ASRock I linked.

 

[ncore]

Sorry but can you explain why H87's are useless?

 

[PP Mguire]

Because you're paying more for the same feature set?

4 DIMM slots, 6 SATA, 2 PCI-E, variant of PCI.
At least the second slot on the ASRock is PCI-E 2.0 16x, rather than 4x on the other boards.
H77 was also pointless compared to B75 Pro boards.

 

[ncore]

Ohh right that make sense, but I'm looking for an ATX rather than mATX as I have a full tower case, I know there's nothing wrong with mATX just thought ATX would make more sense on a full tower plus extra pci-e slots.

Can you help me? planning to buy it from Computer Hardware - Scan.co.uk as they're cheaper compare to overclockers.

 

[PP Mguire]

What do you need more PCI-E for? If you plan to do SLI/Crossfire later you need to divy up for a Z87 anyways.

 

[ncore]

Ah nvm about multi-gpu it will just cost more however I want to set up a multi-screen but for productivity not gaming. I plan to buy a dedicated sound card not a very expensive one but a decent one. Unless the onboard audio is decent enough.

So that'd take another PCI-E 1 i think?

Xeno killer pro takes 1 PCI-Ex1
5870 takes at least two slots.