Need some fairly quick help

Speedz · 16 Dec 2011 at 22:34

Ordering the final piece of my pc tomorrow due to some issues. Motherboard.

Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3

MSI Z68A-GD65-G3

Which one is better? Or suggest a different one if there is a better one
Because i've seen some bad reviews about the Asrock one. Just wondering if you guys could help me out

Thanks

RJC · 16 Dec 2011 at 22:36

The MSI gets a good review below:

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/msi_z68a_gd65_g3_review,16.html

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/msi_z68a_gd65_g3_review/11

Karateyid · 17 Dec 2011 at 00:39

Asrock gets a good review too

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/asrock_z68_extreme4_gen3_review,13.html

Buchanan0204 · 17 Dec 2011 at 00:52

None

Try Gigabyte

fowler002 · 17 Dec 2011 at 03:03

out of the 2 the msi, it's cheaper.

Atom · 17 Dec 2011 at 04:36

Gigabyte has UK RMA, believe MSI has aswell. Couldn't comment on the Asrock but they don't do anything for me..

Out of those 2 MSI..

IvanDobskey · 17 Dec 2011 at 09:10

I went for the Asus P8Z68-V Pro/Gen3 myself. Don't rate Asrock as a brand.

Karateyid · 17 Dec 2011 at 09:54

have you had Asrock ?? it was born as a subsiduary of asus.... I've been an asus mobo user for a number of years and i think that the Asrock is onpar if not better in some respects..

TFC · 17 Dec 2011 at 11:00

+1 for the Asrock, good board

Nightglow · 17 Dec 2011 at 11:13

+1 for the Asrock.

They make some excellent boards, how can you knock them when you haven't use them.
I have a Asrock skt 939 board, & it's still going strong.

And I have built four pc's now all using a Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3 board, superb board, rock solid, can't fault them.

Reaper 392 · 17 Dec 2011 at 11:20

if you are likely to use two graphics cards in crossfire/SLI and another PCIe device (soundcard, TV card, wireless network card, OCZ revodrive, recorder for console gameplay etc) then i would go with the asrock becuase it has more PCIe lanes to play with. if not then the MSI will be just fine

Davefran · 17 Dec 2011 at 11:35

+1 Asrock everytime superb board.
If you investigate those bad reviews you'll find that one of them had a faulty board but reviewed it anyway, then absolutely slated it.
Another review said the sata 3 benchmarks were below par, turns out they hadn't installed the drivers.
Read the Vortez review, ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Review that's the one that convinced me to buy it. And I'm very glad I did.