Asus P9X79 or ASRock X79 Extreme6

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I am getting the Intel i7 4930k and wondering which motherboard would be best for the price per performance. I have heard some bad stuff about ASRock in the past and have had an ASRock lower end LGA775 motherboard go bad on me so I'm still on the fence for that. On the other hand, I love ASUS and have heard great things about the support and the products, i also have an ASUS laptop.

That aside, which motherboard would be better for the price? Right now there's about a $30 difference in the two and I'm willing to spend $30 more for the ASUS if it's worth it. I have looked at the Asus P9X79 PRO, but there's large price difference from the ASRock to that board and at that point I'd just get the Sabertooth.

Please let me know. Thanks!

 
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Fan headers you will use, power, front headphone jacks, power on/off led you will use, spdif is highly unlikely as they are proprietary connections for some Panasonic? stuff, tpu is overclocking, epu is economy/power saving stuff, DrDebug is a numeric led that will flash codes if there is a problem, every board nowadays has a clear cmos jumper just incase you really screw up bios settings you can revert to default manually, Asus bios is an easy upgrade if you do it manually with a USB or saved file. Com port is a dieing hardware, USB is killing it, but my old battery backup has com connector so I still have use for it.

Pretty much your middle range boards have a 'onesize fits all' mentality, low range being tailore. for the older...
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Qualify wise, the boards are comparable, OC wise comparable, so it boils down to features and software. The Asus boards in general have a better layout as far as headers go etc, and more than a few ppl definitely prefer the BIOS. ASRock however, will perform @ the same level for less $, the headers needing a little more planning during build, and the BIOS needing a little better understanding when tweaking.

So, what color mobo do you really want, and who has the combination of headers and software that you will actually use. I mean if you are only going to run 4 sata3 ports max, does it matter if one mobo has 6 and the other 8?
 
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Thanks!
I am looking at reviews now and looks like people are having trouble with BIOS update for ASUS.
Color doesn't matter too much to me. Both boards look nice though the blue on the ASUS does pop a bit more.

In terms of sata ports, I have all HDD's and I read that they wouldn't perform much differently on the 6B/s ports vs the 3GB/s. I will be getting an SSD so atleast 1 or 2 would be useful. Looks like they both have that in order.

In terms of headers I am dumbfounded:

ASUS
1 x TPM connector(s)
1 x COM port(s) connector(s)
1 x CPU Fan connector(s) (4 -pin)
4 x Chassis Fan connector(s) (4 -pin)
1 x Optional Fan connector(s) (4 -pin)
1 x S/PDIF out header(s)
1 x 24-pin EATX Power connector(s)
1 x 8-pin ATX 12V Power connector(s)
1 x Front panel audio connector(s) (AAFP)
1 x System panel(s) (Q-Connector)
1 x MemOK! button(s)
1 x TPU switch(es)
1 x EPU switch(es)
1 x Clear CMOS jumper(s)

ASRock
1 x IR header
1 x CIR header
1 x COM port header
1 x HDMI_SPDIF header
1 x Power LED header
CPU/Chassis/Power/SB FAN connector
24 pin ATX power connector
8 pin 12V power connector
SLI/XFire power connector
1 x Dr. Debug with LED

I don't know if I'd use (or need to use) half of these. And half of these I don't even know what they are. Mind giving me a clue? Thanks!
 
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Fan headers you will use, power, front headphone jacks, power on/off led you will use, spdif is highly unlikely as they are proprietary connections for some Panasonic? stuff, tpu is overclocking, epu is economy/power saving stuff, DrDebug is a numeric led that will flash codes if there is a problem, every board nowadays has a clear cmos jumper just incase you really screw up bios settings you can revert to default manually, Asus bios is an easy upgrade if you do it manually with a USB or saved file. Com port is a dieing hardware, USB is killing it, but my old battery backup has com connector so I still have use for it.

Pretty much your middle range boards have a 'onesize fits all' mentality, low range being tailore. for the older stuff with some new stuff thrown in, and the upper range are for enthusiasts who need the latest and greatest. Your choices are firmly middle range, so while both are excellent boards, you will get stuff on there that you will likely never use, such as the spdif port and com port, but you'llalso have multiple options such as overclocking support (tpu), economy (epu) and stuff that hopefully you never have a need for (drdebug cmos jumper)
 
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I ended up getting the ASUS P9X79 Thanks!
 
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