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Difference between motherboards. GA-Z97X-Gaming 3/5/7 (Also, is it a good motherboard?)

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Does anyone know why the GA-Z97X-Gaming 3/5/7 cost so different with the same specs? Am I missing something? I'm really confused.

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4966#ov

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4953#ov

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4959#ov

 

Edit: Also, do you think the GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 is a good motherboard?

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the 7 has onboard controls

personally  I recommend jsut not going with a Gb board 

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Does anyone know why the GA-Z97X-Gaming 3/5/7 cost so different with the same specs? Am I missing something? I'm really confused.

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4966#ov

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4953#ov

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4959#ov

Overall the same with the 7 having the most features. 

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Yeah, they look pretty much the same.

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Looks and a few features. I have the Gaming 5, and I'm happy with it. Works great, looks nice, and the BIOS is pretty easy to do stuff with. Fan control leaves a little to be desired though.

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Looks and a few features. I have the Gaming 5, and I'm happy with it. Works great, looks nice, and the BIOS is pretty easy to do stuff with. Fan control leaves a little to be desired though.

What do you desire? What's missing?

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What do you desire? What's missing?

Mainly better fan control and more fan headers. And another USB 2.0 header wouldn't hurt.

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Mainly better fan control and more fan headers. And another USB 2.0 header wouldn't hurt.

Woot woot, Z97X-SOC with 9 fan headers (which doesn't matter too much since the control is a bit lacking).

But for real, I have a MATX gaming 5 in a system and it's running great. The gaming series as a whole is solid.

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I just picked up the Gaming 5, should be a pretty good board for the price

 

 

From what I can tell the Gaming 5 has better capacitors, larger VRM heatsinks and gold plated audio connectors. The Gaming 7 has the same only with a POST LED and on-board on/off switch.

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