Gigabyte vs MSI Z97 motherboard

[Cheese4395]

Which motherboard do you think is better? I'm pretty certain they are almost the same at this point and I'm about to pick the one that my little brother will like better based on looks at this point.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130770&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128711&cm_re=gigabyte_z97-_-13-128-711-_-Product

[Shd0w2]

Gaming 5 is better for looks.

[Clyne]

Gaming 5

[TheSLSAMG]

The Gaming 5 supports SLI, so there is that. I would prefer you get the MSI for multiple reasons including aesthetics and slightly better quality, but it's not bad if you pick the Gigabyte.

[Cheese4395]

The Gaming 5 supports SLI, so there is that. I would prefer you get the MSI for multiple reasons including aesthetics and slightly better quality, but it's not bad if you pick the Gigabyte.

They both support SLI I'm pretty sure.

[Recon97]

Both of these manufacturers are shit.Have you ever looked at MSI ads?,Stupid shit

[Cheese4395]

Both of these manufacturers are shit.Have you ever looked at MSI ads?,Stupid shit

First off, thanks for contributing!

 

Secondly, my brother wants a black red scheme and so I went with a black and red motherboard that was also affordable and had a lot of nice features. Sorry it's not the most premium board but it is manageable.

[Cheese4395]

I like the msi for looks the gigabyte for quality and the gigabyte has dual bios so its hard to brick your motherboard if things go south. I did run into someone the other day on the forum who bricked a msi motherboard when he was trying to update the bios 

How... Hahaha. Yeah I have a gigabyte mobo right now and I like it a lot hasn't failed me yet, although it does require the cpu run at turbo 24/7 which i don't like toooo much but I live.

[Cheese4395]

never heard of that but cant you turn off turbo in the bios?

Nope... If you disable it, my cpu will just run constantly at 3.4. Rather just pay the power bill for 3.8.

[Cheese4395]

What? turbo mode saves power when it boosts it will sacrifice cores for speed and i dont think your turbo boost is messed up ive never heard of that. and you have a 4670k why arent you overclocking? and btw 3.4 4 cores is better than 3.8 with two cores now im not 100 percent sure if what i said is correct about turbo boost but thats what i understand

So what I really mean is when your doing nothing, your cpu is running at 3.8 at least when your running single core or dual core activities. It will never downclock to conserve energy. Hope that helps?

 

And I haven't overclocked it yet because i need to put at least a days worth of time into losing it and I just havent had that day yet. =(

[Cheese4395]

it should drop the clock speed unless its running something in the backgroud play around with the minimum processor state inside windows power management settings

It just has to do with the motherboard. Tomshardware wasn't happy with it because they couldn't compare motherboards the same across the board.