ASUS Z170-PRO-GAMING or ASUS Z170-A or Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming-3 or MSI Z170A-KRAIT-GAMING

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moranraanaan

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Hi I want a good motherboard for my Skylake i7 6700 and my GTX 970 which also supports SLI. So according to research my options are:
1. ASUS Z170-PRO-GAMING
2. ASUS Z170-A
3. Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming-3
4. MSI Z170A-KRAIT-GAMING

Problem is I searched the internet but couldn't find any reviews for any of them. Can someone shed some light on any of these? Didn't anyone try any of these boards?

Thanks.
 
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moranraanaan

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Thanks man so I will do as you say cause I don't have anymore reference... But do you know someone who bought this board?
 
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I would go with Gigabyte. I had to RMA 2 ASUS Z170 Maximus VIII Hero boards because the would boot with more than 2 sticks of ram. Spent nearly a month tinkering with the AUSU boards. 10 mins after unboxing the Gigabyte z170x gaming gt, my 64gb G.Skill 3000 trident Z was installed. The board booted right up. No special timings needed, just booted right up.
 
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You post everywhere about poor MSI quality control, and you may be right. But ASUS by FAR has the worst quality control. If you look a the sheer number of DOA boards. Maybe you have had a dead MSI or two, but I buy computers for business and 10 years ago before they moved their manufacturing overseas Asus and Tyan were THE boards to buy. At like... 2006 ASUS went to crap and has NEVER recovered. Their DOA figures supersede everyone else.
 
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QC is quality control - overall. I won't touch them in large part because on mobo problem calls I get, I see twice as many MSI mobos than any two other manufacturers put together (which to me says a lot as I don't do builds on them. These include more than DOAs, most are failures within 30-60 days of a variety of different mobo components. A mobo being DOA does reflect on QC, and I have no idea what you are basing your statement on, though in sheer numbers, I would expect Asus and GB both to have more total DOAs than MSI as they both sell two to three times as many mobos.
 
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I recently got a Asus Z170 Pro Gaming, no issues so far. Works fine, looks good.

The Asus options are discussed in http://www.anandtech.com/show/9485/intel-skylake-z170-motherboards-asrock-asus-gigabyte-msi-ecs-evga-supermicro/5
Both Support SLI
Gaming Pro has SupremeFX audio, Z170-A has Crystal Sound 3 (I have no idea which is better or worse or are they two names for the same feature)
Both handle overclocking well
Both have good reviews
The gaming pro is slightly cheaper
Gaming Pro comes in Black & Red, Z170-A is in White & Black


From what I could tell, there isn't much of a difference between the Z170 Pro Gaming (Full ATX) and the Z170-A, except the Z170 Pro gaming is supposed to have some ROG features

In my opinion the order is :

    Asus Z170 Pro Gaming
    Asus Z170-A
    Gigabyte (Asus boards are usually more reliable).
    Don't get the MSI, I have had issues with their boards in the past.


Additionally if you are planning to go for GTX 970 SLI, I'd suggest going for the GTX 980Ti instead.
 
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