Fast And Cheap? Five Sub-$160 Z87 Motherboards For Enthusiasts

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Intel’s Haswell architecture has mainstream leanings. And yet some of the motherboards out there are really high-end. Today we're looking at five platforms under the $160 mark that hopefully put some value back into being an enthusiast.

Results: SiSoftware Sandra

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Sandra's Arithmetic and Cryptography modules are fairly consistent across all boards, despite tiny base clock differences.

Gigabyte drops slightly behind in Sandra's Memory Bandwidth test, though only by a few percent.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.