I've been running the Z87 VI Hero for a long time (in sig), to me it was the best Z87 I built on out of about 17 different Z87 mobos, so I grabbed the Z97 when it was released - the Z97 Hero is even better, (I have a spare 4770K in it while waiting for the DC K CPUs to be released), it OCs better and w/ less voltage, runs cooler and handles even faster DRAM.