Best Gigabyte board for 24/7 high CPU load (not OC)

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I'm building a Windows server that will be under constant high CPU load, the levels I'm expecting are constant up to 90% CPU load for at least 24 hours during Monday to Friday.

The processor will be a standard i7 4770 that is air cooled, if it's kinder on the board I'm even considering the S version of the chip. Case will be cooled well with Silverstone Evolution case, and using Seasonic Gold PSU.

My question is are the higher end Gigabyte boards more reliable over the cheaper boards? The higher end boards have more power phases but does this translate to increased reliability when not overclocking?

If you compare say a £180 Z87X-UD4H over a £110 Z87-D3HP is one more robust over the other, or is the extra cost just for features such as SLI that my server would never use. I notice both boards come with 3 year guarantee, I did look for MTTF failure information but unable to find anything.

GIGA-Man does Gigabyte have any testing data when your boards are under constant high load?

Thanks
Jason
 
As someone who runs higher loads of 99.9% 24/7 365 and overclocked with GPU's running at the same rate, I'd say you would have no problem with any of the major manufacturers boards. I've had Gigabyte, MSI and Asus and they are all fine.
 
Update on this. In the end I went for a Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H and an i7 4770 (standard). There was the 20% cash back so it made sense. The board / CPU will be having a total hammering with near 24/7 high load during it's life however.

Bffa, I do understand what your saying and think any Gigabyte board would be fine. As it happens I have an overclocked i5 750 on a four phase Gigabyte board from 2009 that's still going perfectly fine.
 
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