Hey all!
Currently have a x58 system still rocking hard. i7 950 OC'd to 4.3ghz on water. Asus x58 Sabertooth motherboard still as stable as can be!!
Time to upgrade. Any advice between these 3 boards? THANKS!
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII HERO LGA 1151 - Love my ASUS from the years of reliability but TONS of reviews on newegg show both this and other 1151 ASUS boards are not doing so hot right now. I am most familiar with ASUS as I have used them for the past 15 years or so.
GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming GT (rev. 1.0) - Have a Gigabyte in my AMD based media center and the thing seems stable and rock solid. Never used Gigabyte on a main machie before though so unfamiliar.
ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ - Is this thing too good to be true? I mean the features are absolutely insane and it seems (seems) to use high end components. I have always though of asrock as the crap cheap brand but have things changed? Is this really an awesome board or has the features blinded me?
I will be installing windows 7 FIRST on the machine, activating, updating to 10, the clean installing 10. So the board needs to at least be able to install windows 7 for a short time enough to get the free upgrade.
Thanks all!!
Currently have a x58 system still rocking hard. i7 950 OC'd to 4.3ghz on water. Asus x58 Sabertooth motherboard still as stable as can be!!
Time to upgrade. Any advice between these 3 boards? THANKS!
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII HERO LGA 1151 - Love my ASUS from the years of reliability but TONS of reviews on newegg show both this and other 1151 ASUS boards are not doing so hot right now. I am most familiar with ASUS as I have used them for the past 15 years or so.
GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming GT (rev. 1.0) - Have a Gigabyte in my AMD based media center and the thing seems stable and rock solid. Never used Gigabyte on a main machie before though so unfamiliar.
ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ - Is this thing too good to be true? I mean the features are absolutely insane and it seems (seems) to use high end components. I have always though of asrock as the crap cheap brand but have things changed? Is this really an awesome board or has the features blinded me?
I will be installing windows 7 FIRST on the machine, activating, updating to 10, the clean installing 10. So the board needs to at least be able to install windows 7 for a short time enough to get the free upgrade.
Thanks all!!