Five Z87 Motherboards Under $220, Reviewed

Results: 3DMark And PCMark

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As Intel continues to integrate components onto its processors, we find it increasingly difficult to differentiate between motherboards based solely on performance. At this point, we’re only looking for cheaters and/or broken firmware configurations, and suggest that most readers will be satisfied to simply skip to our power consumption tests.

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