Micro ATX board, couple of questions.

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I'm doing a build for a mate, he doesn't want the case to be massive but he still wants good power and performance from a PC.

Ive been looking at the Corsair 350D which is a Micro ATX or Mini ITX case, from the bit ive read it seems that the Micro ATX board is the way to go ahead of the mini with having more expansion slots, is that correct ?

Compared to an ATX board, does the Micro ATX lose anything performance wise or should it perform very similar ? He'll be putting in a Haswell Intel CPU and probably a Radeon R9 270 GPU, may possibly go the Corsair H110 or H100i route but not decided on that over an air cooler at the min.

These are the 2 Micro ATX boards i was looking at, not 100% sure which is the best to go with.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-440-GI&groupid=701&catid=5

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-439-GI&groupid=701&catid=5

Any feedback is appreciated.
 
The Sniper is the better board,

• Creative sound chip with fancy Nicichon Capacitors and op-amp upgrade.
• 8X/8X support on the slots so it does SLI.
• Killer LAN
 
So by going for a Micro ATX board you don't get any performance loss over an ATX board but just a few less expansion slots, is that correct ?

I was reading a Sniper board thread which is at the top of the forum, are people having issues with this board mainly sound or is that just confined to the ATX version ?
 
The mATX is just as good as the ATX sized board, as you say it is just "less"

There does seem to be a couple of people with sound issues with the Z87 Sniper (ATX) but then it could be something they have done or a genuinely faulty board.

At least there is a Gigabyte rep on these forums and a UK based RMA repair centre.
 
Thanks Stulid

While your here, just a quick one on memory.

This is what the sniper board says about memory.

4x DDR3 1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules, (1866/2133/2200/2400/2600/2800/ 2933Mhz OC)
* Due to Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than 4 GB.

Will it be ok to put memory in above 2000mhz, it will be running windows 7 64 bit Pro. He'll probably be going 2 x 4GB of some kind as 8GB is plenty for what he'll use the PC for.
 
Havn't decided on the Ram as yet, it can be any really as i'll probably be putting a H100i or H110 in for him so height won't be an issue, just need to decide what speed ram for that Sniper board will give the best results.
 
Anything 2133+ will be good, avoid Crucial as Giga Z87+Crucial RAM is a bad combination.
 
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