Caporegime
id go gigabyte purely for their excellent rma/customer services,
Poll: POLL: Which Z77 Manufacturer - Motherboard will you be buying this time around?
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Asus. Simply because their UEFI bios is **** hot.
Going to grab a P8z77 pro as soon as it comes to market or thereabout
Going to grab a P8z77 pro as soon as it comes to market or thereabout
Caporegime
would anyone choose biostar? i think they make some good boards
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Anything that is not gigabyte and I own a gigabyte z68x-ud4
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Who clicked AsRock!
Please don't.
Please don't.
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AsRock offered pretty hard-to-beat value and performance with P67 and Z68 so my initial vote goes to them. However, as others have said: read reviews, look at features and best-value-per-pound as anyone sensible should.
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Asus have always been rock solid for me, have used them years over several motherboards, see little reason to change.
Caporegime
There's very little to complain about with recent ASRock motherboards.
There were a couple of people with damaged CPU socket pins, assuming this was actually ASRock's fault.
Other manufacturers have had their fair share of issues.
ASRock are currently up there with Asus, Gigabyte and MSI.
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Of course, i certainly wouldn't say they were a premium brand though.
Gigabyte>=Asus>MSI>AsRock.
Soldato
Hi All,
Finally de cloaked after much reading and searching I often find an interesting topic here
So far I've only seen one which I think can handle at least two PCIe x16 3.0 slots at x16 speed. That would be the Gigabyte G1 Sniper 3, but I hate the look of it.
I was hoping for something better from Asrock, I like what they did with Z68, I thought that showed innovation with how they handled PCIe lanes with the PLX chip. Can't see anything outstanding from them this time round though and wish they hadn't littered all their boards with old PCI slots.
My decision for this major upgrade of mine is going to hinge on whether the motherboard can handle a second GFX card in PCIe 3.0 at x16 speed. That would give some potential for extra lifespan rather than ditching the mobo and cpu when Haswell arrives.
Failing that it will be the cheapest one that includes the new Virtu MVP, at least one PCIe 3.0 x16 and then I think I will choose the i5-3570K over the i7-3770K.
So far my front runner is looking like the MSI Z77A-GD55 which is their entry point to getting the new Virtu MVP. Unclear though what their PCIe 3.0 is capable of though, am currently waiting on confirmation from an email on this.
Great little demo of this new Virtu MVP on youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FB1wfM53E
I'm going to put up a separate thread for my pending new build shortly which I welcome anyone's input. What I'm typing on is around 12 years old now, yes 12 years, the old faithful Supermicro mobo has done me proud.
Finally de cloaked after much reading and searching I often find an interesting topic here
So far I've only seen one which I think can handle at least two PCIe x16 3.0 slots at x16 speed. That would be the Gigabyte G1 Sniper 3, but I hate the look of it.
I was hoping for something better from Asrock, I like what they did with Z68, I thought that showed innovation with how they handled PCIe lanes with the PLX chip. Can't see anything outstanding from them this time round though and wish they hadn't littered all their boards with old PCI slots.
My decision for this major upgrade of mine is going to hinge on whether the motherboard can handle a second GFX card in PCIe 3.0 at x16 speed. That would give some potential for extra lifespan rather than ditching the mobo and cpu when Haswell arrives.
Failing that it will be the cheapest one that includes the new Virtu MVP, at least one PCIe 3.0 x16 and then I think I will choose the i5-3570K over the i7-3770K.
So far my front runner is looking like the MSI Z77A-GD55 which is their entry point to getting the new Virtu MVP. Unclear though what their PCIe 3.0 is capable of though, am currently waiting on confirmation from an email on this.
Great little demo of this new Virtu MVP on youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FB1wfM53E
I'm going to put up a separate thread for my pending new build shortly which I welcome anyone's input. What I'm typing on is around 12 years old now, yes 12 years, the old faithful Supermicro mobo has done me proud.
Soldato
Thanks Surveyor I hadn't noticed the Extreme 9 yet as it's not yet listed on their site. One to watch but I wish they'd drop them old PCI slots in favour of PCIe.