which MOboard to buy?

[nunyabusmus]

Hey guys Tossing up here 
between 
gigabyte H170 D blah blah 
http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5519#ov

and Asrock H170 performance 
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty H170 Performance/

not using K series so no need for Z chipset 
which would you buy 

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4 minutes ago, nunyabusmus said:

Hey guys Tossing up here 
between 
gigabyte H170 D blah blah 
http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5519#ov

and Asrock H170 performance 
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty H170 Performance/

not using K series so no need for Z chipset 
which would you buy 

Gigabyte for the color scheme/aesthetics.

ASrock for the I/O options

 

Slight edge to Gigabyte simply because I have more faith in their boards over ASrock as a whole, however that is entirely subjective and can be countered fairly easily with anecdotal evidence. 

[Clanscorpia]

Gigabyte. I have that board and I love it

[2FA]

Asrock since I've never owned one and I want to try one out.

[mrchow19910319]

Gigabyte, the 1st one and the only motherboard I have owned.

[nunyabusmus]

yeah the Asrock has heaps more Rear USB which I use a lot. and I dont have a case at the moment so dont have front usb to use. 
2nd is it has more gold in PCIE, DIMM and CPU which gigabyte dont do until the higher end gaming/ Z series chipsets 
it also has 10 phases and Digi VRM as oposed to 6 and std VRM on the gigabyte 
asrock also lets you overclock the RAM in their H series so I can run the DDR 4 at 2400mhz instead of 2133 which isnt much I know but... Im not interested in K series CPU i find them silly and overpriced 
the one negative for asrock is the sata plugs are not in the flat position like so many other boards. they stick up but im not into asthetics 
the gigabyte board is about 20 bucks cheaper as well.

but im putting in a I5 6500 3.2ghz. and in 2 weeks I was putting in the i7 6700 (non K) so the extra power phases will help with the high end cpu 
so feature wise the Asrock wins hands down. 
 

[nunyabusmus]

34 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Asrock since I've never owned one and I want to try one out.

i have had a B150 board from asrock. and it was pretty sweet. It had more features compared to asus and gigabyte. and it was flawless I just sold it to get this upgrade 
their PCB are quite thin. the ultra durable mobo's have a good feel of quality 

but asrock is offsetting that with extra featres and good components. the have 12K caps on this board  to. and high end audio. so I am 75% sure ill go AASrock. see what a few more ppl say