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DrDray
By DrDray
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So the board I bought had a broken pin on the CPU socket (unfortunately bought second hand and the guy isn't replying to me) and am looking at NEW boards.. I'm tossing up between the Asus Z97 Pro Gamer (http://www.dragonpc.co.nz/p.aspx?315726) and the Asus Z97 Maximus VII Ranger (http://www.dragonpc.co.nz/p.aspx?287711)

 

I've got a 4770k and a 2x4gb kit of G Skill Ram.

 

what do you guys think? the price is virtually the same but I think I'm leaning towards the Ranger. 

If you have the option to get a high refresh rate monitor, do it.

 

Main PC CPU: i7 14700k CPU Cooler: NZXT x62 280mm Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Elite X WiFi 7 GPU: Asus Strix 3080ti RAM: Gskill Trident Z5 32gb DDR5 SSD: 990 Pro 2TB, 980 Pro 1TB Case: NZXT S340 Black PSU: Corsair RM1000e ATX3.0

 

Server: CPU: i7 9700k RAM: Corsair 32gb DDR4 HDD: 36tb Usable SSD: Samsung 500gb NVME Case: Fractal Define R5 PSU: Corsair RM1000e ATX3.0

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See the LTT video on repairing sockets. It's sketchy, but worth a try if you're just gonna chuck it otherwise.

These two mobos are very similar; I'd advise on spending less on mobos in general, but if it's gotta be one, and if the price is the same for you, the ranger has a couple of extra features like extra SATA, usb 2.0 and a BIOS reset on the IO (none of that should be price differentiators though), and a tighter aesthetic. 

If you make a post contradicting mine that doesn't directly address my claims, or cites 'facts' without evidence, I'm probably not going to bother responding to it, because you probably didn't bother reading my post properly, and because life is too short. It doesn't mean I don't have an answer for you. It means I'm not dignifying you with a response. 

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See the LTT video on repairing sockets. It's sketchy, but worth a try if you're just gonna chuck it otherwise.

These two mobos are very similar; I'd advise on spending less on mobos in general, but if it's gotta be one, and if the price is the same for you, the ranger has a couple of extra features like extra SATA, usb 2.0 and a BIOS reset on the IO (none of that should be price differentiators though), and a tighter aesthetic. 

I've tried that, managed to fix the bent pins but the broken one is still giving me grief. The symptom it's giving me is that it won't run my 2x4gb of ram in dual channel and will only run one stick at a time, but after fixing the bent pins it will run them in slot one and 3 but not slot one and two (in dual channel) but for some reason it ran them in dual channel last night and this morning it just wouldn't post.. I'm trying to send it back to the guy i bought it off or even just sell it, it works but its a bit sketchy and I don't want to deal with it :P

If you have the option to get a high refresh rate monitor, do it.

 

Main PC CPU: i7 14700k CPU Cooler: NZXT x62 280mm Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Elite X WiFi 7 GPU: Asus Strix 3080ti RAM: Gskill Trident Z5 32gb DDR5 SSD: 990 Pro 2TB, 980 Pro 1TB Case: NZXT S340 Black PSU: Corsair RM1000e ATX3.0

 

Server: CPU: i7 9700k RAM: Corsair 32gb DDR4 HDD: 36tb Usable SSD: Samsung 500gb NVME Case: Fractal Define R5 PSU: Corsair RM1000e ATX3.0

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