Five Z87 Motherboards Under $220, Reviewed

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Intel’s Haswell architecture displaces Ivy Bridge in its desktop line-up, bringing with it yet another new CPU interface. We tested six motherboards that claimed to be ready for your overclocking efforts, and included the five survivors in today’s review.

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One-second differences in our A/V suite are likely only a few hundredths of a second before rounding, and differences that small can be attributed to minor clock speed variation and/or chance.

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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.