Opinions on these Z68 motherboards, please :)

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Hey folks,

Going to be upgrading the core bits of my system soon to i5 2500k, 8GB RAM and a Z68 motherboard.

I've be eyeballing a few motherboard and these 4 look great to me. Looking to spend around £130 - £150 on a good mobo.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-051-AK&tool=3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-183-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-360-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-458-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

All features seem to be pretty much the same, all crossfire/sli compatible etc. Just looking for opinions/reasons why one might be better than the other from other peoples experiences with them.

Any help is great thanks :)

Matt.
 
Either the Asrock or MSI...

Asrock are great but for me MSI with their Military Class boards and Japanese solid parts will be more durable and better at overclocking than Asrock... Hope this helps xD
 
erm, why would an operating system need a UEFI (graphical bios) to run. A bios is a bios! As long as you can change settings, overclock etc, it shouldnt really matter. I am using an Asrock motherboard with the classic blue/white bios and will more or likely update to windows 8 when it comes out. Just because the bios is pretty looks like something made in photoshop, doesnt mean the OS will not run.

Sorry to say dude... get some proof... and total cods wallop!
 
CinderzFTW said:
erm, why would an operating system need a UEFI (graphical bios) to run. A bios is a bios! As long as you can change settings, overclock etc, it shouldnt really matter. I am using an Asrock motherboard with the classic blue/white bios and will more or likely update to windows 8 when it comes out. Just because the bios is pretty looks like something made in photoshop, doesnt mean the OS will not run.

Sorry to say dude... get some proof... and total cods wallop!
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Sorry to say that you are wrong, Windows 8 will need full UEFI support. MAC OS has needed UEFI for a long time now, in fact when we launched UEFI on our laptops a couple of years back there was a lot of buzz about the fact that people could now install Mac OS on non-Apple laptops.

By the time Windows 8 is released Gigabyte may have resolved their UEFI issues and produced a full UEFI board but their current "hybrid-UEFI" won't work. It's a legacy shell with a UEFI immitation interface, it's like buying an old Mazda and sticking one of those immitation ferrari body kits on it.

Source : http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wind...Architecture-Sessions-at-IDF2011-220707.shtml

I checked and it has been confirmed by our HQ engineers also.

Sorry but only those users who have currently got a motherboard with full UEFI BIOS or upgrade to such beforehand will be able to adopt Windows 8
 
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erm, why would an operating system need a UEFI (graphical bios) to run.
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UEFI is not just about having a graphical skin there are other advantages as well.

I'm not sure that Windows 8 will require UEFI (it would be nice though) as Microsoft have said computers that can run Windows 7 should run Windows 8 and the early release builds certainly have no such requirement.
 
ScottiB said:
Sorry to say that you are wrong, Windows 8 will need full UEFI support. MAC OS has needed UEFI for a long time now, in fact when we launched UEFI on our laptops a couple of years back there was a lot of buzz about the fact that people could now install Mac OS on non-Apple laptops.

By the time Windows 8 is released Gigabyte may have resolved their UEFI issues and produced a full UEFI board but their current "hybrid-UEFI" won't work. It's a legacy shell with a UEFI immitation interface, it's like buying an old Mazda and sticking one of those immitation ferrari body kits on it.

Source : http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wind...Architecture-Sessions-at-IDF2011-220707.shtml

I checked and it has been confirmed by our HQ engineers also.

Sorry but only those users who have currently got a motherboard with full UEFI BIOS or upgrade to such beforehand will be able to adopt Windows 8
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UEFI is not a requirement on windows 8 at all where did your HQ engineers hear that?? Only devices based on ARM need UEFI and not on X86/64 hardware. Microsoft would reduce there market by doing that and they will not do that on X86 as its huge.


Also UEFI bios based boards are not looking to good anyways for ivy bridge/pcie 3 support.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/the-upg...ight-be-blocked-by-changes-to-uefi/13513.html
 
ScottiB said:
Take a guess but dont assume that we deal in rumours
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Well if that is the case how come you are wrong?

http://www.h-online.com/security/ne...ude-secure-boot-using-UEFI-2-3-1-1335246.html

UEFI 2.3.1 will allow secure boot for enterprise and business, which by the way nobody supports yet as intel hasnt developed this version yet and will only come once there panther point chipsets become available in 2012.

I suggest you check with HQ again before you start throwing mud at other brands as it looks very unprofessional.
 
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