Which Z87 board?

cr!spy

cr!spy

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Looking to spend around the £150 mark, was going to go for a Gigabyte or Asus board, but wouldn't mind trying something different like Asrock or MSI. My friend has the MSI MPower Z77 board which I personally thought was an amazing board for the money.

Will be overclocking and pairing it with an i5 4670k, single HD7950 and XMS3 1600mhz ram.

On a side note, would I benefit from upgrading my ram to something faster? The XMS3 ram is what I have in my current build and was just going to reuse it in new build.
 
 
+1 for the UD3H. Very good board. Had mine now paired with a 4770K for a while and have very impressed with it. Well priced board with plenty of features. To be honest there isn't much to separate baords around this price bracket. With regards to overclocking, with Haswell its down to the Silicone lottery. If you have a good cpu then the UD3H won't hold you back. Mines at 4.7GHz @1.285V for 24/7 use. Plus there's already been plenty of BIOS updates and I'm sure there'll be more to come.
 
I have an MSI G45 Gaming and tbh it's a great board. My 4670k runs up to 4.8Ghz and a pair of 670 cards fits nicely.

I usually only use Gigabyte but fancied something different. It's also not much over a £100.
 
Thanks for the input guys, but after reading numerous reviews it looks like a no brainer and I'm going for the UD3H.
 
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