I'm sure this is a good deal, but all these Intel motherboards are vastly overpriced - why, because Intel charges an arm and a leg for the northbridge/chipset - having driven off Nividia etc from making compatible chipsets by legal action. They have tried to make it seem normal to pay £160 - £200 for a motherboard, which is in fact ridiculous. Hopefully AMD with Ryzen will be a true competitor and we can get back to the days of £80 fully functional motherboards.

This is a decent deal.

Been thinking about building a new pc, so tempted to go for this but haven't bought any other parts yet

i think this is a better deal - https://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intelsocket1151/z270chipset/z270sliplus.html

with a free coolermaster seidon water cooler

I'm sure this is a good deal, but all these Intel motherboards are vastly overpriced - why, because Intel charges an arm and a leg for the northbridge/chipset - having driven off Nividia etc from making compatible chipsets by legal action. They have tried to make it seem normal to pay £160 - £200 for a motherboard, which is in fact ridiculous. Hopefully AMD with Ryzen will be a true competitor and we can get back to the days of £80 fully functional motherboards.

True say. Paying extra for light's. Ok better components.

If anyone was wondering, it's the Siberia V2's that come free.

Do u get the game and cash back with that one?

Just make sure it won't boil your M2 drive ; ) http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2781-msi-m2-heat-shield-increases-temperatures

no game no cashback either but its 20 quid less than the others anyway and besides...a cooler master seidon is like 50-60 quid by itself

​Exactly what I'm doing bit annoying 6 month wait turned to a year wait aha but not long left now and pricing looks very fair. Worth the wait so far for me. Also like supporting AMD for obs reasons.

Dose any one know exactly which headset is in the promotion, please? I had a look at their website and could not discover which one it is

Never saw the point spending this much on a mobo, 70 quid tops for me. Hot though if this is what you're looking for.

heat added

With ryzen around the corner anyone considering building a new system should wait and see what the prices are as amd has promised long term future chipset support so you wont need to keep buying a new motherboard to use their latest cpu unlike intel of course.

Nice board, I was thinking of getting this but the other deal from Box.co.uk made more sense as I needed a cpu too. So I've got the MSI M5 gaming board.

Any further details on the free Coolermaster cooler? Can't see it mentioned in your link.

Awesome deal too OP :smiley: been planning a build for a while so this type of deal is great to know about.

wait for ryzen/zen, then reevaluate. intel dropped the ball to focus on cloud based hardware. disclaimer: intel 1155 rig here.

I wonder if anyone has compared whether it's better to spend £70 on a motherboard and use the £90 saved on a faster chip instead of overclocking.

Wait for ryzen

AMD Ryzen is coming.

Yeah I know mate, but I spent only 70 on my current mobo and it clocks my old 3570k to 4.4ghz no problem, don't see the need for anything else.

​I got myself an Asus Z170-A from ebay for £70

lol why are people always saying AMD Ryzen is coming ?! so its not here yet so buy intel ! And to be honest looking at the bench marks i'll stick with my 7700k.

Where exactly is the Siberia Headset deal detailed?

Why would you not wait for Ryzen? it is most likely going to be out in the next 2-3 weeks and all signs are very promising. Why would you not wait to at least see the benchmarks?
If you don't need a new rig right now you would be silly not to wait.
I personally am eying up the 1600x

Whens this RGB fad going to die? its the PC Equivalent of them boy racers parked in tesco who look like the ram raided the local halfords

2.2% cashback from Quidco

​I said a Z170 or Z270 motherboard which are for skylake and kaby lake only? They are the only motherboards which allow overclocking on k series CPUs for the current generation cpus as far as I know.

Just got this mb. Very good for what you get including the For Honor and the cashback. This is great for the headset to. Also MSI had taken less than a day to comeback with the For Honor code (Uplay)

I got this board with free headphones @ Ebuyer last week:
http://www.ebuyer.com/769859-msi-intel-z270-gaming-pro-carbon-lga-1151-atx-motherboard-z270-gaming-pro-carbon

Showing in stock @ £159.95, whereas Novatech isn't... if it helps anyone!

The board is pretty good and the headphones are too.

Ebuyer makes no mention of the cashback/game, but I've already received the game code, so assume cashback will work fine when MSI open up the claims form.

i can't see the free cooler in the offer

in that case the offer is finished.

Ryzen out in two weeks. only a nutter would buy a new kaby board now.

Ryzen out in two weeks. only a nutter would buy a new kaby board now.

just my luck, i spent more than this on the motherboard alone :neutral_face:

The actual release date hasnt been set by amd, its only rumors as everything else, just another hype train.
Dont expect prices to be low either, knowing how deep in debts amd are, most likely will be in same price bracket where intels closets rivals are.

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-1700x-1700/

This is the news so far.
It is looking like an i7 ish quad core will be under £200.
Eventually.

Unlikely to price close to the Intel rival when they are looking to get market share.

​They are just a plain rumors, from uknown sorces, would take them seriously.

Slightly 'leaked' pre order prices table for Ryzen chips,maybe 12 days short of release.
An i7 equivalent cpu is gonna be under £200 as stated.
If you have a denial problem here it is probably 'buyers remorse'.
Anybody buying a Z2 series mobo at this juncture must have the attention span of a frog.
And Shkapars can barely speak English. let alone Geek.Opininion worthless.

​Wccftech are not a reliable source, they should never be quoted if you want to be taken seriously. It's obvious that buying now isn't the best idea, wait for real world benchmarks and see if there's movement in Intel's pricing, if the benchmarks and pricing are favourable to AMD.

I've already bought DDR4 RAM ready for whichever platform I choose. It's almost doubled in price since I got it. No way they'd drop the RAM pricing with this competition arising and it was already inflated for the Christmas period. So I'm quids in already.

Wccftech simply reproduced the pre order price chart.
They are by far more reliable and accurate than any source I have seen on this site,
and currently that includes YOU.
If you wish to be taken seriously, post a source and figures that dispute said prices.
.If you cannot, stop flapping your lips.
Know it all.

spec says the motherboard takes upto ddr4 2400...is that true?