Motherboard Decision

[Geekazoid]

Hi guys,

So I've just been looking at different motherboards in the process of trying to reduce the cost of my build to be done this year and I've got 2 Motherboards that I'm trying to decide between.

They are as follows:

• ASUS Z87-A (http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_1491&products_id=23593)

• Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H Motherboard (http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=23562)

Which out of those 2 motherboards would you guys recommend?

ADDITIONAL INFO

Some member on here posted about the failer rate of motherboards and showing that Gigabyte had least failer rate out of the other two which were ASUS and MSI. Now I don't know how accurate the testing was but surely many of you have used ASUS motherboards without any issues or even failers, would this be correct?

Thanks in advance for your help guys.

[JoshM]

You have 2 MATX and one ATX, what case have you chosen?

[beebskadoo]

Go with the Gigabyte board. It has a better color scheme, it could go along with just about any color themed build.

[SAV1OUR]

u3h i use it its a awesome mobo only issue i had was one of my case fans didnt like the fan header would recommend it though  

[Geekazoid]

You have 2 MATX and one ATX, what case have you chosen?

Fixed. And ATX.

I think you meant 1 mATX and 2 ATX. I just checked.

[acidydragon]

The Asus one supports higher clocked memory, and has PCI-e 3.

[harrynowl]

The Asus one supports higher clocked memory, and has PCI-e 3.

Pretty sure PCI-e 3 is standard in Z87 chipsets.

 

Just get whichever takes your fancy there's no real difference. I personally don't like the new gold scheme ASUS uses.

[acidydragon]

Pretty sure PCI-e 3 is standard in Z87 chipsets.

 

Just get whichever takes your fancy there's no real difference. I personally don't like the new gold scheme ASUS uses.

It's not, thats why you have to look. Many continue to come with PCI-e 2.0.

 

However I agree, go with the one you think is prettier

Current generation GPU's (even super high end), don't use all of the bandwidth that PCI-e 2 gives, so what's it matter if you have even more bandwidth for it to NOT use?

[Geekazoid]

I think I've chosen to go for the Gigabyte one.

I want to thank you all for your help though, twas very much appreciated. I must say, this forum is awesome! I love it how you get really quick responses from people who actually give a damn about what you may be asking for and are willing to help. Good on ya guys, top job.

[harrynowl]

It's not, thats why you have to look. Many continue to come with PCI-e 2.0.

 

However I agree, go with the one you think is prettier

Current generation GPU's (even super high end), don't use all of the bandwidth that PCI-e 2 gives, so what's it matter if you have even more bandwidth for it to NOT use?

Even so, both those boards feature PCIe 3.0 in their taglines so your original post was a tad wrong

 

I've yet to see a Z87 board that doesn't use the 16x/8x PCIe 3.0 standard (excluding ITX), or x8 x8 PCIe3 (effective 2.0 x16) when using multiple GPUs.

 

But like you say it doesn't *really* matter (yet) as 780tis don't eat all of 2.0 x16 bandwidth.

[Geekazoid]

-snip-

Hey, just read your sig, have you received your i7 CPU yet?

[harrynowl]

Hey, just read your sig, have you received your i7 CPU yet?

Nope. Can't wait till I do though it's going straight to overclocking

 

Chose the 2600K + P8Z77-V because I got both for £5 less than I sold my 8320 and board for o_O (plus I like asus boards but not gold boards )

[Geekazoid]

Nope. Can't wait till I do though it's going straight to overclocking

 

Chose the 2600K + P8Z77-V because I got both for £5 less than I sold my 8320 and board for o_O (plus I like asus boards but not gold boards )

How come you're not going for the newer Ivy Bridge or Haswell i7 CPUs?

[harrynowl]

How come you're not going for the newer Ivy Bridge or Haswell i7 CPUs?

The price I got the 2600K for is a steal, I wouldn't have paid full price for a 20% at best multithreaded upgrade

 

and it's costing me nothing as such (sold old for more )

 

I'm hoping to get a 2600K that can do 4.8-5GHz or so. That will make it *roughly* equal to a 4770K @4.2 which is kinda the majority of haswells for overclocking on mediocre coolers.

[Geekazoid]

The price I got the 2600K for is a steal, I wouldn't have paid full price for a 20% at best multithreaded upgrade

and it's costing me nothing as such (sold old for more )

I'm hoping to get a 2600K that can do 4.8-5GHz or so. That will make it *roughly* equal to a 4770K @4.2 which is kinda the majority of haswells for overclocking on mediocre coolers.

Ah, well it sounds as though you have it all sorted out. Good luck to ya mate!

Here, have a cuppa. ☕️

[harrynowl]

Ah, well it sounds as though you have it all sorted out. Good luck to ya mate!

Here, have a cuppa. ☕️

Thanks,

 

the only problem is I don't like tea/coffee :c

[Geekazoid]

Thanks,

 

the only problem is I don't like tea/coffee :c

Hmm...really? How come?

[harrynowl]

Hmm...really? How come?

No idea; never have 

[Geekazoid]

No idea; never have

Hmm...okay, fair enough.