Which is a better Motherboard?

[Vandorlot]

Which of these motherboards are better? Instead of just saying which board, can you also explain why.

ASRock Z270 Pro4

Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2

Gigabyte GA-Z270XP-SLI

[RadiatingLight]

The cheapest one.

 

Explanation: Motherboards don't affect system performance at all. Just get the cheaper one to save money

[OsuMasterz]

I just question why in general ASRock boards are always cheaper which hinders me from buying them...

[STRMfrmXMN]

Just now, OsuMasterz said:

I just question why in general ASRock boards are always cheaper which hinders me from buying them...

Up until relatively recent this was the case. Nowadays I prefer Asrock boards over pretty much every other manufacturer.

[Clyne]

Just get a high end Z170 board instead as their more featured pack than low-end Z270s, most Z170 boards are usually on sale at around the Z270 low-mid end price bracket considering their clearing inventory for them. 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132855&cm_sp=Homepage_FDD-_-P3_13-132-855-_-05142017

If Kaby Lake is an issue, just use USB flashback on it since it's an Asus board. 

[OsuMasterz]

Just now, STRMfrmXMN said:

Up until relatively recent this was the case. Nowadays I prefer Asrock boards over pretty much every other manufacturer.

I will give ASRock a few years to see if they have any long term issues, I don't want my board ending up like Soltek lel

[STRMfrmXMN]

Of those I would buy the Gigabyte. Best VRM heatsink design and looks nicest.

[genexis_x]

6 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

looks nicest

MSI boards looks nicest IMO

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

AsRock

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

10 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

MSI boards looks nicest IMO

Their sexy red

[bcguru9384]

side note all these boards show shared dimm ram upto 1024mb

so is this limit for system to have gpu pci card(cards have more than 1024mb their own ram) use dimm ram as gpuram paagefile pool???

hard drive uses sysram total × 1.5 get hdd pagefile pool size

ram×1.5=pagepool=<1024mb

[genexis_x]

22 minutes ago, EasonIDontKnowAnything said:

Their sexy red

White too

[Vandorlot]

15 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

MSI boards looks nicest IMO

MSI makes crap motherboards. That's why i didn't even include them in the selection.

[Vandorlot]

15 hours ago, bcguru9384 said:

side note all these boards show shared dimm ram upto 1024mb

so is this limit for system to have gpu pci card(cards have more than 1024mb their own ram) use dimm ram as gpuram paagefile pool???

hard drive uses sysram total × 1.5 get hdd pagefile pool size

ram×1.5=pagepool=<1024mb

 

Can you rephrase this, please?

[Vandorlot]

15 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Of those I would buy the Gigabyte. Best VRM heatsink design and looks nicest.

It will match my current color scheme ands cheaper than the asus one so ill go with it

[bcguru9384]

1 hour ago, Vandorlot said:

Can you rephrase this, please?

all 3 boards have a 1024 limit on share size of the system ram available

the gpu dedicated ram when pciex type card used will now use system ram like a pagefile system

normal pagefile uses hdd space to cover system ram

if gpu uses hdd then horrible bottleneck why it uses sysram

but unless you tell sysram to not pagefile to hdd the gpuram that being pagefiled to sysram then add very slow and extra data hop in the data recall process