ASRock z170 Extreme 4 vs Gigabyte z170x Gaming 3?

[Cthanion]

I have somehow ended up with both of these boards for my latest build, I'm just wondering which would be more preferable to use?

 

I'm using crossfire'd 480's although that doesn't really change anything, but I am currently using a i5 6600k which overclocks to 4.4ghz, I tried getting it up to 4.6 but the ASrock overclocking utility is to say the least, poor.

 

Just wondering if there's any discernible difference between the two brands and if I should swap over to the gigabyte? I know ASrock used to be a subsidiary of ASUS, but ended up making bad products. I'm not currently having many problems with the ASrock at the moment, but the overclocking leaves a lot to be desired.

 

Thanks

 

 

[DarkBlade2117]

Are you using software to overclock or are you going into BIOs? The BIOs on the Asrock board is straight forward and simple to use

[Cthanion]

1 minute ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

Are you using software to overclock or are you going into BIOs? The BIOs on the Asrock board is straight forward and simple to use

I've gone into bios to do it, it does have predefined profiles for the cpu but the 4.6 just bombs out straight away after bios boots up again, I'm using a pretty decent cooler too so there's no issue of overheating, or at least there shouldn't be. I just assumed it wasn't getting enough voltage but for the life of me I can't find the setting to let me adjust it

[Energycore]

Not gonna lie, I love the look on the Extreme4

[DarkBlade2117]

1 minute ago, Cthanion said:

I've gone into bios to do it, it does have predefined profiles for the cpu but the 4.6 just bombs out straight away after bios boots up again, I'm using a pretty decent cooler too so there's no issue of overheating, or at least there shouldn't be. I just assumed it wasn't getting enough voltage but for the life of me I can't find the setting to let me adjust it

When you go to the OC tab in BIOs it should have 3 things to choose from. One should be like Voltage or whatever and it should let you changed it to fixed mode and set it to whatever. Skylake is safe up to 1.4v btw and what cooler?

[Cthanion]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Not gonna lie, I love the look on the Extreme4

It does look really nice, goes well with my white and blue theme in my case, moving over to the gigabyte might ruin that theme come to think of it....

[Cthanion]

Just now, DarkBlade2117 said:

When you go to the OC tab in BIOs it should have 3 things to choose from. One should be like Voltage or whatever and it should let you changed it to fixed mode and set it to whatever. Skylake is safe up to 1.4v btw and what cooler?

Ah okay I didn't consider, apologies I'm not as computer adept as I'd like to be, I'm getting there though! 

And it's an arctic freeze xtreme rev. 2, I'm hoping to move over to the Corsair h100i v2 however

[anybodykek]

2 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

When you go to the OC tab in BIOs it should have 3 things to choose from. One should be like Voltage or whatever and it should let you changed it to fixed mode and set it to whatever. Skylake is safe up to 1.4v btw and what cooler?

For overclocking, why can't you just use Intel's XTU?