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Bombfish
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Asus imo. Reason: Personal (good) experience with the brand.

The Beast: CPU: i7 4790K GPU: EVGA 1080 SC Cooling: Dual NZXT Kraken x61 RAM: HyperX Fury 1866MHz Storage: SSD: 500GB Samsung EVO 840 + HDD: 1TB WD MOBO: Asus Z97 - a PSU: RM850x Case: H440 green-black Setup: Link PCPP: Link Evolution: Link 

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Other stuffs: Acer aspire 128GB SSD 10GB RAM // MacBook Pro 13" 500GB SSD 16GB RAM // A 2009 iMac 21"

 

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pick the cheaper one, mobo dosent matter that much

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

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#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

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The Gigabyte board has a slightly better audio (ALC892 vs ALC 887). It also has 2x PCIE x16 slots and 2x PCI slots, whereas the Asus has 2x PCIE x16 and 2x PCIE x1.

The key difference is that the Asus board supports 4-way CrossfireX, the Gigabyte only supports 2-way.

 

The Gigabyte looks like it has a slightly better power delivery system (although not sure)

You should pick depending on your use case, personally I'd choose the Gigabyte for the slightly better audio and (probably better) VRMs.

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The Gigabyte board has a slightly better audio (ALC892 vs ALC 887). It also has 2x PCIE x16 slots and 2x PCI slots, whereas the Asus has 2x PCIE x16 and 2x PCIE x1.

The key difference is that the Asus board supports 4-way CrossfireX, the Gigabyte only supports 2-way.

The Gigabyte looks like it has a slightly better power delivery system (although not sure)

You should pick depending on your use case, personally I'd choose the Gigabyte for the slightly better audio and (probably better) VRMs.

Who would ever want to have 4-way crossfire in a mATX board xD

And yes, I am propably going for Gigabyte on this one. Thanks :)

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