A good motherboard for £150?

Don't waste your time looking for an ROG Z77 ATX board as their isn't one you can buy. I've been waiting for it and been making do with a M-ATX in the meantime and kinda regret spending the money. I almost feel like Asus have done it deliberately to get you to spend out of their cheaper Z77 board before sinking some real money into a full ATX product - thus getting you to buy two different boards.

There's nothing really special about the Sabertooth and I suspect the thermal armour is all gimick, particularly if you pay particular attention to airflow within your case already.

The Gigabyte Assasin I believe is an X79 solution and sounds like it's outside of your budget of £150. Have a look at their Sniper boards instead.
 
if you want a rog board the 1 i linked is the only rog board on sale at the mo altho the formula is on sale soon but i think it will more like £250-300 thats z77 ofc
 
Dirtyganker said:
Don't waste your time looking for an ROG Z77 ATX board as their isn't one you can buy. I've been waiting for it and been making do with a M-ATX in the meantime and kinda regret spending the money. I almost feel like Asus have done it deliberately to get you to spend out of their cheaper Z77 board before sinking some real money into a full ATX product - thus getting you to buy two different boards.

There's nothing really special about the Sabertooth and I suspect the thermal armour is all gimick, particularly if you pay particular attention to airflow within your case already.

The Gigabyte Assasin I believe is an X79 solution and sounds like it's outside of your budget of £150. Have a look at their Sniper boards instead.
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The chipset does not concern me. I just want a nice motherboard that isn't **** and isn't M-ATX. Gigabyte or Asus are my options. The G1 Sniper is a very nice board and so is the ASUS Sabertooth. My budget is £150 but I'm willing to save up for a motherboard around the £200 mark.
 
BennettWHU said:
The chipset does not concern me. I just want a nice motherboard that isn't **** and isn't M-ATX. Gigabyte or Asus are my options.
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Well to be honest the chipset should concern you as it underlines the entire capability of your system, but I guess it would help more if you could tell us what you're planning to do with it?

Do you play games? Overclock? SLI/Xfire graphics?

If you don't do any of the above then no point in spending £150 on a board at all, but if you do then you most definately want Z77 as a minimum, if only because it's current technology and I'd never advise anyone spend that kind of money on something that isn't current. Not unless you have £150 to burn, and by the sounds of it you don't.

Just looking out for your best interests matey. Wouldn't want to give you duff information, but I would suggest that getting the right chipset and motherboard features is more important than getting hung-up on whether it's M-ATX or ATX, as long as there is a sound technical reason to not use a M-ATX, and those reasons do exist.

If you want the most bang for your buck then you will probably have to look for an M-ATX board to fit into your budget and the ones linked above are very good and reluctantly I would have to recommend the Asus Maximus V GENE-Z as what they offer does represent good value for money.

My own reasons for waiting on an Asus ROG ATX Z77 board is that I want better PCI-E options so my SLI cards aren't so close together - The Asus Maximus V Formula has a nice air gap between the top two PCI-E slots which makes airflow between the two overclocked GTX670's I have an important factor. Personally I've still not ruled out X79.

Tell us what you're planning to do with it and then perhaps we can give you some better recommendations.

Take care.
 
well looking at his other threads hes planning on building a gaming rig,which is why i suggested z77 in the 1st place but guess i should have asked him what chipset he was after
 
BennettWHU said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-321-GI&tool=5

That is a Sniper and it isn't £300.
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It's an X58 chipset for which you can only have a socket 1366 Core i7-9xx CPU and they are getting harder to buy, and when you compare a Sandybridge Core i7 to anything on that platform then Sandybridge pwns it totally. I'm speaking from experience as I went from a Core i7-950 to a Core i7 2700K and another system with a Core i5-2500K - performance is like chalk and cheese. Even the Core i5-2500K is quicker.

Thats why it's only 150 quid because it's practically obsolete and wouldn't be a very wise purchase, in my opinion.
 
Dirtyganker said:
It's an X58 chipset for which you can only have a socket 1366 Core i7-9xx CPU and they are getting harder to buy, and when you compare a Sandybridge Core i7 to anything on that platform then Sandybridge pwns it totally. I'm speaking from experience as I went from a Core i7-950 to a Core i7 2700K and another system with a Core i5-2500K - performance is like chalk and cheese. Even the Core i5-2500K is quicker.

Thats why it's only 150 quid because it's practically obsolete and wouldn't be a very wise purchase, in my opinion.
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totaly agree,he should be looking @ z77 + ivy 3570k and the gene is a great board and looks good even in a full tower case
 
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