Gigabytes Z87X OC Force - £100 off until Monday the 4th!!

[Addicted]

As said its for "real" overclockers which means 99.9% need not apply to asking "why do much". Its almost a case of "if you have to ask you cant afford" but instead on "not afford" it should read "if you have to ask you shouldnt buy one".

Its a high end board to overclock, run MORE THAN 2 overclocked cards on etc. The OC options, memory tweaking and overall tweaking of the board far surpasses that of pretty much anything else you can buy bar perhaps the Maximus 6 Extreme and depending on what your doing this board is either going to be better for the job or worse.

The Z87X-OC is an overclockers board for those who like to overclock and get the most from a system. It is not a benchers board, its a cheap alternative so you can build a system with an "OC" board thats orange saving you a few hundred to spend elsewhere.

See this as a no expense spared option

This is the most crucial bit

 

[reiyushin]

Plus it's dead sexy

 

[implosiveturnip]

CPU
- Support for Intel® Core™ i7 processors/Intel® Core™ i5 processors/Intel® Core™ i3 processors/Intel® Pentium® processors/ Intel® Celeron® processors in the LGA1150 package

On that board? lol

 

[Roady]

See this as a no expense spared option

Except it lacks some high end options other boards have, like direct thermal probe connections, power monitoring connections and LN2 modes...?

Also it looks like it has watercooling barbs already fitted?

Spoiler

 

[Nelly]

Yeah it's expensive, it's definitely for a small niche market, will be plenty of people using a £150 board for SLI for the sake of 1-2 fps. I managed to get the Z77 version of this board for £200 on a one day deal, but never even bothered to use it.

Except it lacks some high end options other boards have, like direct thermal probe connections, power monitoring connections and LN2 modes...?

- 1 x onboard voltage measurement module
- 2 x BIOS switches (one is LN2 mode)

Not sure if this board has direct thermal probe connections, I think the ASRock Z87 OC Formula does? Other than that I don't know if any other Z87 boards do?

 

[Roady]

I'll eat my hat then!

Does it say what the voltage measurement module covers? Input/CPU/RAM/PCI-E?

 

[spoffle]

It'd make far more sense (and you'd get much more performance too) to put this sort of money towards a socket 2011 set up.

 

[shadow_boxer]

Amazing board but a pretty hefty price tag to match. Great for real enthusiasts but for 99% of users a much cheaper board will be suffice.

 

[ademcg]

for those who like to flaunt and compare E-peni$'s only I would have thought.

Ludicrous for all but the vast minority !

 

[ademcg]

silly 5 second rule

 

[scotsdragon]

ouch that's one expesnive mobo have you guys reflected the price change in your z87 extreme build list?

 

[NeostarNeko]

Not sure if i like the orange theme :|