Which mATX gaming mobo should I get?

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in corner one we have the MSI gaming mATX board, msi has been known for great products. I already have an msi GTX 760 ITX edition and plan on getting a second one.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130737

In corner two we have ASUS's take on a gaming mATX board, it costs about 30 bucks more but is it justified? I've compared them time and time again but I want to know, what would you guys get?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131975


I should also note I have a core i7k Haswell

and 8gb of g.skill ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231638
 
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I just finished my build using that msi board and honestly couldn't be happier. It's quick and speedy and I've little to no problems with it. The only ones I have are related to drivers, but that's because I don't have a cd reader installed yet so I have to search for driver files online.

All in all, I too needed matx and this was my first ever build. The msi board not only looks sexy as hell but performs quite fast
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You sure? that MSI one looks pretty good.... what's mpci-e combo?

It looks like the MSI board runs two cards at 16x while the ASUS one, if SLI'd would run two cards at 8x, where again, the msi one looks like it would run two cards at 16x
 
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I'm pretty sure that both motherboards would run at X8-X8 mode when SLI'ed, There is no motherboard with native dual X16 configuration, even Maximus VI Formula runs at X8-X8 configuration,
Gene board has better on-board audio and mPCI-E combo slot where you can put small form factor SSD or Wi-Fi adapter :)
 
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but I already have a USB wifi 802.11 A/C adapter so built in wifi isn't an issue. It just seems to me that the MSI board looks to be a better buy. even if both boards run the cards at 8x on each slot. I've heard ASUS can be a pain in the ass, but I do have asus products and they've been great, but so have the msi products I've bought have been great as well. So taking out the fact that I don't need built in wifi or a pci express x2 slot, all I need are two pci-e slots that I can put gpu's into, and when it comes to these mobos price is not an issue....

I mean is there anything on the ASUS board that is better than the MSI board? (Not including price, built in wifi, or extra pci-e x2 slots, the only pci-e slots I need/want are ones that can run a GPU, which both have.) I'm not the best at tech, but from what I've seen the msi board looks better than the ASUS one, but I'm not as experienced as most people on these forums are. I just wanna know, but I want reasons also, excluding the reasons I mentioned above... which would be better? The msi board or the ASUS one?
 
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I just finished my build using that msi board and honestly couldn't be happier. It's quick and speedy and I've little to no problems with it. The only ones I have are related to drivers, but that's because I don't have a cd reader installed yet so I have to search for driver files online.

All in all, I too needed matx and this was my first ever build. The msi board not only looks sexy as hell but performs quite fast
 
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