Z87 - What motherboard would you go for 8pack

Aurhinius

Aurhinius

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I am thinking about switching to Z87 and a haswell and wondering what board you'd pick 8PACK?

Looking for a solid no frills board that is rock solid.

I don't need or want, wireless, bluetooth or any other useless feature that detracts from the quality of the motherboard itself.

Also don't want to pay for features I won't use.

Don't need on the fly overclocking buttons either.

I discounted X79 because IVY-E doesn't offer anything over Haswell and X79 is an OLD platform.

Cheers
 
I'm tempted towards the Hero to be honest because it seems to offer exceptional overclocking as well and the more I think about this the more I think pretty much any board will take a haswell to 5ghz because it's the chip that matters not the board!

I'm sure you hit a point where the board starts to matter I am just thinking I will probably not get there on air or custom water.
 
Perhaps but can anyone provide some imperical evidence of this supposed truth using air or custom water as opposed to LN2?

Buying a record breaking LN2 board doesn't mean I'll see any of that benefit when not using LN2.

I think it might be a myth we are dealing with.

I am not denying that there is a point where having a OC orientated board might improve your overclock but I suspect that happens at the point LN2 starts getting involved and that's the point I am considering.

What are we actually talking about? Some extra CPU power phases that might clean the voltage lines slightly (less ripple?) educated guess here.

So that might mean that clock for clock you could drop the voltage by say 0.2 of a volt probably less?

While with Haswell that will equal a lower vcore temp I wonder if that justifies the extra cost when most people will be using AIR or custom air.

Thinking out loud here and enjoying the discussion.
 
Yes I suppose I am just more used to the Asus bios and I find having a ramdisk and Secure erase in the bios a very handy feature.

Not fully decided yet because I see the arguments for the Gigabyte board.
 
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