Motherboard around 6-8K ?

[jatin17]

Hi,

I am helping some one buy a new desktop ...

Can you guys please suggest a motherboard for intel core i5 2500k?

As we are spending heavily on processor and discrete graphics card my mother board can only cost me around 8k max.

I want atleast 2 x8 PCI slots.
Also the board should have a VGA port ...

Thanks !

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

extend your budget a bit and get MSI Z68A GD55 @ 8.7k.

 

[jatin17]

extend your budget a bit and get MSI Z68A GD55 @ 8.7k.

anything around 6k ?

also for this board 2 models are available, G3 and B3 whats the difference ?

Why should you spend more on motherboard anyway ?

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

^no z68 around 6k.
and pair a k processor with z68 for oc.

both G3 and B3 are same
just G3 has pcie 3.0 slots.

 

[JTdhaval]

by the way which is better MSI P67-G55-B3 or Z68 is better because p67 is for arnd 9.5k i guess..

 

[Cilus]

JTdhaval, MSI Z68-GD55 is priced @ 9.4K, not 8.7K and Z68 supports better feature set than P67 chipset.
Z68 will let you overclock your K Series processor as P67 chipset.
It will let you use the integrated GPU of Sandybridge processor, a feature, missing in P67.
It will let you Lucid Virue software based dynamic switching between the on-die GPU core and the dedicated Graphics card as per applications' need.
It supports SSD caching, a feature to use small sized SSDs as buffer drive between RAM and HDD, increasing the Read/Write performance by 4 times than that of a HDD.
And there is no P67/Z68 board available @ 6K price range.

 

[jatin17]

Jaskanwar Singh, Cilus ... thanx both of you for your valuable advice ...