I'm also trying to expand this list to include P67/Z68 - overclocking options on such chipsets, and what hurdles you need to jump to make the board IB compatible (removable bios chips, some revisions even have out of box IB support).

Coming from a Biostar board, as well, I was quite surprised how common it is for motherboard companies to simply neuter their lower end boards to force you to buy their higher end stuff in order to have very basic control.īuying P67/Z68 as a cheap alternative for a high quality board for IB (or for an SB build) There's also some caveats to Intel CPUs in general - as someone coming from AMD, I was quite surprised by the differences and what options are important, and how many Intel boards are just gimped. So I decided to list what I found out in my research.

You don't exactly see on the MSI Z77 G41 list of features 'Absolutely no voltage control at all!'. Turns out, with Intel board, a bunch of them are limited in voltage controls, no ram voltage, etc, it's very complicated. I was trying to purchase a new Intel system and had a rather difficult time trying to figure out what board to get, that simply had voltage control and better than a non-heatsinked 3+1 phase.

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