Intel motherboard chipset confusion...

Tank

Tank

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coming from a mass of amd systems where chipsets are for lack of a better term simpler choices

intel is making a mess of things

h61, h67, h77, p67, z68, z77

all for the same damn cpu socket.

HTF! does it all work? which is better? is one faster? is one slower? better capabilities?

please help me understand...
 
The Z and X series are the "extreme" series of boards with Cross Fire and SLI, extra RAM and DDR3 speeds over 1800
H6x series is the "desktop" series with basic and standard features they are usually mATX size.
H7x series is basically the same as the H6x but a ATX size board, with a few more features.
The P67 series is also a "extreme" board, just a little washed down (slower RAM speeds etc.)

TL;DR

H6 mini mobo's - good for desktop's and HTPC's
H7 ATX sized - standard motherboard
Z/X/P "Extreme" series - for SLI/Cross Fire, overclocking, and DDR3-2600+

I always just looked for the cheapest that took ~16GB's of RAM had PCIe and supported the CPU I wanted I never went very fancy with my motherboards.
 
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which is good for basic high performance gaming, no oc'ing frills, no weirdness just gaming goodness
 
Another Amanzimtexas dude! Wow... I'm Also from Amanzimtoti, I've had the MSI Z68-GD65 and now the MSI Z77-GD65. Very good mobo's.
 
Tank said:
which is good for basic high performance gaming, no oc'ing frills, no weirdness just gaming goodness
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I would go with a H61M gigabyte and MSI make then and they start at about R500, Cheapest I can find is a MSI H61M-P21 @ R433 rebeltech it's a pretty simple board, I have one very similar to it (mine is a LGA775) and it gets the job done.
 
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