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Best Mid-High End Z97 Gaming Motherboards

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That's not necessarily true, overclocking performance is quite irrelevant for AIO's and Air coolers (even high end ones) but dry ice, LN2, custom loops are a different story.  You could most likely hit a low end board's overclocking limit on a custom loop potentially with low enough temps and high enough voltages.

 

But for the rest of the 99% of the overclocking community it probably won't make a big difference.

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Also, Im going to need wireless. Is it worth getting a Motherboard with wireless, or one without, and getting a wireless adapter?

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Asus Z97-A

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Priority should be this

 

ASUS>Gigabyte>MSI and Asrock

 

IMO

 

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 Motherboard: Asus Z170-AR | Case: NZXT H440 White | PSU: CS750W |

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Priority should be this

 

ASUS>Gigabyte>MSI and Asrock

 

IMO

 

agree with this. I put ASUS at the top of my MOBO searches. My current build is running an Asus Maximus VII Hero. 0 issues, excellent performance.

 

As for the SLI comment about heat. My top card stays at 65 and my bottom card reaches about 75-80 during full runs. Running a reference cooler on top and a blower on bottom is your best option. Or doing dual blower style

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ASRock Z97-M OC Formula is a hella nice board for the money if you want to go M-ATX.

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why would you build new with haswell over skylake?

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