(Quick question) Better Z170 mobo for overclocking

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jimmysmitty
ASRock is, funny enough, a subsidiary of Pegatron which is a subsidiary or Asus. ASRock was originally spun off by Asus to be more like Foxconn, a big OEM manufacture, but now makes its own board but uses a lot of the same tech Asus has since they are in the end owned by them.

For overclocking, they will perform very similarly. The Ranger has a Digi+ 10 Phase, the ASRock has a Digi+ 12 Phase so you might squeeze a bit more out of the ASSRock but again they will be close because what will matter a lot more is the CPU you get and how little voltage it needs to overclock.

I personally buy Asus but either board are good choices if you plan to overclock.
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And If it were up to me, i would also choose the AsRock board, but for what you will probably be doing, I think its a wash. I run a 4670k at 4.5GHz for about 2 years now with an MSI G55.

Good news is, since its gonna be a wash, you can just save some money on the AsRock
 
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ASRock is, funny enough, a subsidiary of Pegatron which is a subsidiary or Asus. ASRock was originally spun off by Asus to be more like Foxconn, a big OEM manufacture, but now makes its own board but uses a lot of the same tech Asus has since they are in the end owned by them.

For overclocking, they will perform very similarly. The Ranger has a Digi+ 10 Phase, the ASRock has a Digi+ 12 Phase so you might squeeze a bit more out of the ASSRock but again they will be close because what will matter a lot more is the CPU you get and how little voltage it needs to overclock.

I personally buy Asus but either board are good choices if you plan to overclock.
 
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They both have heatsinks so there is no advantage there to either. The Asus does have a bit better audio design to it but other than that they are very similar short of the power design on the ASRock.

The Asus does also look to have a bit better overclocking features in the BIOS but they are ones that are designed for extreme OCers using LN2 more than standard OCing.
 
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