MSI Z77 MPower or AsRock Fatal1ty?

[Angry Bellic]

Hi all,

I am building a Gaming Rig, specs are below;

Processor : Intel Core i5 3570K

Graphics Card : Gigabyte Ge Force GTX 660 Ti

RAM : 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz G.Skill Sni.Per

Cooler : Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO+ Cooler

Case : Antec Twelve Hundred Full-Tower

Storage : one 240 GB Intel 520 Series SSD, and one 3 TB WD Caviar Green 7200.00 RPM HDD

Display : Dell ST2240L Full-HD.

So I wanted to know whether I should go in for the MSI Z77 MPower or the AsRock Fatal1ty MoBo, thanks in advance, I will be OC-ing a lot. Also in future I may upgrade to a Liquid Cooling Solution. :lol:

 

[alvine]

I would go for asrock purely because their motherboards are dark and black cases with black motherboards look good in my book haha

 

[g-unit1111]

Personally I'd say neither. I'd go for the Asrock OC Formula or the Gigabyte UD4 with Thunderbolt. Both will allow for some great overclocking.

 

[Angry Bellic]

Ok no problem in extending my MoBo budget a little bit. Now should I go for the AsRock Oc Formula or the Gigabyte UD4 with Thunderbolt Super Speed Ports? I see the speed of USB 3.0 amazing even today so I don't find the use of a Thunderbolt Port.
Also I don't own any Apple products.

 

[Angry Bellic]

I will be buying the NZXT Phantom 820, the Antec Twelve-Hundred, Bitfenix Ghost, or Cooler Master HAF XM. As the AsRock Oc Formula is an E-ATX MoBo; whether there will be any problems.