Please Help in Choosing a Motherboard for my Gaming PC

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gamer123456

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Hi guys .. I want to Choose one of these great motherboards . I put it in a list with my reasons that bothering me on that Motherboard . So see it and tell me if my reasons are right or wrong and tell me why ? and please choose one of them as your choice for me
My uses are :
Gaming / overclocking / SLI or Crossfire ..
..Please help

Gigabyte :
GA-Z87X-OC
No DVI-I / Realtek® ALC892 codec / Only 6 SATA / Support until 4-Ways Crossfire but have only 3 PCIe 3rd generation .

GA-Z87X-UD5H
Having 3 PCIe 3rd generation but allow 2-ways SLI or Crossfire / Not like GA-Z87X-OC in overclocking (Not supporting in board (Overclocking buttons)).

ASRock :
Z87 Extreme6/acNot Supports DDR3 3000+(OC) / Not supporting in board (Overclocking buttons).

Z87 OC Formula/ac
Only Have 1 x LAN Port .

MSI :
Z87-GD65 GAMINGNot Have Display port / Only Have 1 x LAN Port .

Z87 MPOWER MAX
Not Have DVI-I / Only Have 1 x LAN Port .

ASUS :
Z87-WS
Only support until DDR3 2800 (O.C.) / Not supporting in board (Overclocking buttons).
 
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inzone
A work Station motherboard is made for the business end of computing and will have features that add to the ease of use for that. A gaming motherboard is made strictly for gaming and will have features for that. Work Station boards can be overclocked but the gaming boards are just a bit better.

I find that setting up overclocking in the bios is the best way to overclock. Those motherboards that have an overclock button will have a preset overclock setting that is activated when the button is pushed, those type of overclocks are ok but they are typically a medium overclock and will give you a 4ghz or 4.2ghz overclock.
Asus boards typically do not have an overclock button but will have a number of presets in the bios to choose from and...
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The thing that you want to do first of all is to make some adjustments in your way of thinking about a gaming motherboard. You listed the onboard video ports as a reason for not going with certain boards or that it's a lack of having those ports that is making you rethink that boards usefulness at gaming?
When gaming is the main focus of a computer you are not going to be using the onboard video or the ports, you will be using a separate video card or cards.

Next is the lan ports and unless you plan on using a teaming option one lan port is sufficient. You need an Intel server chip on the motherboard to enable teaming or you can simply add a separate Intel server card. I have tried the teaming function and it's very hard to set up and not worth it.

Overclocking buttons ? Are you looking for actual buttons on the motherboard or is it a lack of overclocking options in the bios? I noticed that you listed an Asus Z87 WS , not sure why your looking at a Work Station board for gaming.

This is what you want for a gaming motherboard;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131989

Two way SLI/Crossfire is all you need for gaming, if you look carefully at the benchmarks of the three and four card set ups you will see that the scaling of more then two cards drops off with the third and fourth cards and that becomes a waste of money to get an added 20 or 30 fps for the expense of a third video card and even less fps for the fourth. Once you go past 60 fps it becomes un-noticeable , you can't tell the difference between 60 , 80 or 100 fps.
 
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gamer123456

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Ahh thank you ..thats it
I will use the cards as you saied and it will nothing to do with the onboard GC .
what i meant with "on board buttons" are the buttons on the board its self like whtat you see on GA-Z87X-OC for overclocking .
By the way i am confused of the overclocking , is the all boards in the list support it as same level or not ?also why we see each company produce a special version for overclocking ?
and what you meant with "workstation motherboard" it have a good features , isn't it for gaming why?
Thanks again
 
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A work Station motherboard is made for the business end of computing and will have features that add to the ease of use for that. A gaming motherboard is made strictly for gaming and will have features for that. Work Station boards can be overclocked but the gaming boards are just a bit better.

I find that setting up overclocking in the bios is the best way to overclock. Those motherboards that have an overclock button will have a preset overclock setting that is activated when the button is pushed, those type of overclocks are ok but they are typically a medium overclock and will give you a 4ghz or 4.2ghz overclock.
Asus boards typically do not have an overclock button but will have a number of presets in the bios to choose from and it is just a matter of clicking on the one you want and it's set.
I find that Asus boards are very overclocking friendly and you can easily get a good overclock with little effort, most boards will have some overclocking available and it usually depends on what price range the board is in as to what features it will have. The higher the price the more you can do and the more features you get.
 
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