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Cannot decide with the mobo

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Hi guys, I have all my rig decided but the mobo.

 

Im leaning towards these mobos so some feedback would be awesome =)

 

ASRock z87 Extreme 4

ASRock Fatality z87 Killer

Gigabyte z87x-UD3H

 

I was about to get an Asus z87-A, but it seems there's a lot of ppl who dislikes it and on the other side the z87x-UD3H seems to be rock solid. But what about the ASRock ones?

 

My build: i5-4670k, 1 SSD, 1 HDD and GTX 780.

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Go with the Gigabyte one.

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Probably from lack of experience, but I just recently built an AsRock H87M Pro 4 and that UEFI was brilliantly designed. I've heard mostly good things from ASRocks' UEFI this time around, then again most the Z87 UEFIs are above decent to amazing.

 

I've read good things about the UD3H, regardless what reviews are saying. Anandtech reached a 4.6 stable OC on it. That's a pretty solid OC. Plus it's beautiful. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6989/intel-z87-motherboard-review-with-haswell-gigabyte-msi-asrock-and-asus-at-200/5

 

And I have zero experience with the Fatal1ty line of boards.

 

So off my limited knowledge regarding these boards, if I had to choose one of these, I'd go with the Gigabyte. Seems like a very legit board. From all the reviews I've ready it's uber well received. My personal opinion would be to use ASRocks UEFI, but personally I've always used Gigabytes in my board and I've never had an issue at all with their build quality. Though I do also hear that the MSI G series boards are pretty dang good too.

 

P.S. Apparently Fatal1ty now plays Titanfall.

 

 

EDIT: After seeing reports of people struggling to get anything stable over 4.4 on the Extreme 4 and realizing the Gigabyte is only like $10 more, I changed my opinion to the Gigabyte.

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loved my z68 by gigabyte and love my z87 by gigabyte. had asus and msi boards a few years ago but liked gigabytes buildquality the most (they survived)

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