I am a 'gamer' looking to buy a motherboard to pair with an i7 3770K. I do not have water cooling nor do I plan on any large overclocking, if anything at all from the start. I have heard great reviews on both of these boards along with others. What is the big difference? My needed features in a motherboard are:
1. Good SATA III 6GB controller. I don't use RAID. - (I had a X58 SLI 3 w/Marvell controller that under-performed my SSD by 150MB/s read and write)
2. Single GPU (Nvidia GTX 480) slot.
3. USB 3.0 connectivity for front panel
A nice to have would be an audio chipset on the mobo that is better than my 5+ year old X-Fi XtremeGamer.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102006&Tpk=X-Fi%20XtremeGamer
Thanks,
Xerical
1. Good SATA III 6GB controller. I don't use RAID. - (I had a X58 SLI 3 w/Marvell controller that under-performed my SSD by 150MB/s read and write)
2. Single GPU (Nvidia GTX 480) slot.
3. USB 3.0 connectivity for front panel
A nice to have would be an audio chipset on the mobo that is better than my 5+ year old X-Fi XtremeGamer.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102006&Tpk=X-Fi%20XtremeGamer
Thanks,
Xerical
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