- Apr 20, 2013
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Asus Z87-A
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-HD3
Now to start I'm slowly piecing together my next build and making sure that every part has the maximum price to performance ratio. For the motherboard my minimum requirements were a z87 chipset, with at least 2 PCIe 3.0 ports (one at 16x and one at 8x) because this build is going to have SLI cards. At first I was going with the gigabyte board, but then I realized I've never seen a build with a gigabyte board, my brother who has built computers for 6 or 7 years now has only used asus boards, and I've been building for about 3 or 4 years and my past 2 build have been asus boards too, and non of our builds have ever had a motherboard failure. From what I've compiled with google, gigabyte is slowly taking over asus in market share, but their reliability and support is still a little lacking. The reason I'm still sticking to the gigabyte board for now is that it matches my case theme of black and white, with a boldly understated looks, with the asus board I got this gold thing sticking out with its wacky heat spreaders. But another reason I want to stick with asus is that I've only overclocked with their bios, and I'm wondering if gigabyte's new full HD bios is comparable for overclocking? I watched a video from NCIX where they overclocked with an asus, msi, and gigabyte board and the guy said that the gigabyte was the best looking, but that doesn't mean its the feature rich and supported the best. I'm mainly just worried that the gigabyte board will fail, because they have had many reports of their boards only lasting a week to a month. If gigabyte has really stepped up their reliability and bios support I'm all for the GA-Z87X-HD3, but if the asus is a truly better board at around the same price i'll go with it if it clashes with my build because i'm getting a better value. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Asus Z87-A
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-HD3
Now to start I'm slowly piecing together my next build and making sure that every part has the maximum price to performance ratio. For the motherboard my minimum requirements were a z87 chipset, with at least 2 PCIe 3.0 ports (one at 16x and one at 8x) because this build is going to have SLI cards. At first I was going with the gigabyte board, but then I realized I've never seen a build with a gigabyte board, my brother who has built computers for 6 or 7 years now has only used asus boards, and I've been building for about 3 or 4 years and my past 2 build have been asus boards too, and non of our builds have ever had a motherboard failure. From what I've compiled with google, gigabyte is slowly taking over asus in market share, but their reliability and support is still a little lacking. The reason I'm still sticking to the gigabyte board for now is that it matches my case theme of black and white, with a boldly understated looks, with the asus board I got this gold thing sticking out with its wacky heat spreaders. But another reason I want to stick with asus is that I've only overclocked with their bios, and I'm wondering if gigabyte's new full HD bios is comparable for overclocking? I watched a video from NCIX where they overclocked with an asus, msi, and gigabyte board and the guy said that the gigabyte was the best looking, but that doesn't mean its the feature rich and supported the best. I'm mainly just worried that the gigabyte board will fail, because they have had many reports of their boards only lasting a week to a month. If gigabyte has really stepped up their reliability and bios support I'm all for the GA-Z87X-HD3, but if the asus is a truly better board at around the same price i'll go with it if it clashes with my build because i'm getting a better value. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
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