Which motherboard to buy?

Protino · Apr 25, 2014

Asrock h77 pro4/mvp v/s Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H ???

I know that they are lot's of articles on this topic but i wanted to know about the sata headers of these two mobo :

Asrock supports 4 6 gbps and 4 3GBps connectors.

Gigabyte supports only 2 6GBPS and 3 3GBPS connectors with 1 msata.

I'll be connecting two hard drives of 1 tb each and no SSD.

So please help me pick one.

jmeister · Apr 25, 2014

Either one would be fine, since mechanical hard drives can't take advantage of sata 6 speeds anyway, just connect them to the sata 3 headers and call it a day.

Protino · Apr 25, 2014

what about the quality?

Asrock or Gigabyte?

jaquith · Apr 25, 2014

Protino :

Either is fine for your needs, most HDD's cap out around 1/2 of SATA2 (3Gbps) speeds or ~150 MB/s, but if the HDD's are HHD's (hybrid with small internal SSD cache) then the SATA3 (6Gbps) connections would be better.

Now a days an SSD + HDD's is the best and next is to use an SSD + HDD where the SSD is a cache and in that case the SSD is 'invisible' and augments the most used files on the HDD after the 2nd run.

Most of my builds are ASUS based and to me the extra few bucks for better quality components is worth it.

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edit - I assume that this is not a new build, the LGA 1155 uses the older SB/IB CPU's whereas the new LGA 1150 uses the Haswell based CPU's!

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