Asus Rampage III Gene vs Gigabyte X58A-UD3R

specr12

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Hello,

I'm having trouble deciding on which board to buy. I was initially going to buy the UD3R but now the Asus Rampage III Gene is on sale for 10$ less than the Gigabyte.

The salesperson told me that mATX boards generally perform worse than full sized ATX boards. But I did some searching and there was no indication that a mATX board is slower just because of it's size.

My question is, what would you guys recommend? Are mATX boards really slower? Will I have trouble fitting a after-market CPU fan in?

I'm just a casual gamer and I'll probably do some CPU over-clocking here and there.

Thanks
 
Solution
There is no performance difference between MATX vs ATX. Really, the difference is just the number of PCI slots / spacing. You won't go wrong with either motherboard, so go with the cheaper board... IMO.

specr12

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Hmmm, so the performance between the 2 boards is about the same?
Are the ROG (Republic of Gamers) stuff just gimmicks?
and the Asus has the SupremeFX X-Fi 2 sound. Would that make it a better deal?

Thanks again.