GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force Or Better

[shaynoa]

Hi ive been looking at buying a new mobo but not sure on which one,
the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force because of 2 PCI xpress slotes or does Asus have a mobo with 2 slots both running at 16 speed, need help quick
have to get it before fathers day
please guild me in the right direction.
money isn't a problem
thanks

 

[Ketchup]

What is Father's Day in your country?

It's hard to go wrong with a Gigabyte, although reviews I have read say that Asus is better with the UEFI BIOS. I was looking at the top-end Asus boards, and it seems none of them will do SLI in 16. I don't know that it matters much.

That Gigabyte is a hefty price, but they packed some very nice things with that board.

 

[shaynoa]

Fathers day is really just for family to get together in Australia and an excuse to spend money,
i purchased the Gigabyte Z87 OC Force with the Intel 4770K CPU.
For cooling i purchased a corsair H100i
the fact that Gigabyte will do SLI/Crossfire at 16 is why i purchased it.
Im wondering why Asus does not have a top of the range mobo with dual 16 slots
and why is it that when boards do have them it seems as if the 2 slots are side by side rather than slot 1 and slot 3 which allows them to fit in with room to spare,
surely these guru's understand this when they design these boards

 

[Ketchup]

I don't think current boards saturate the 8x bus, even in SLI. You are going to have a nice system though.

 

[shaynoa]

1. 3 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1~3)
   * For optimum performance, if only one expansion card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16_2 slot.
2. 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1~2)
   * The PCIEX8_1 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16_1 slot and the PCIEX8_2 slot with PCIEX16_3. The PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_3 slot will operate at up to x8 mode when the PCIEX8_1/PCIEX8_2 is populated.
   (The PCIEX16 and PCIEX8 slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
   * The PCIEX16_2 slot will become unavailable when an expansion card is installed in the orange PCI Express x16 slot.
3. 2 x PCI Express x1 slots
   (The PCI Express x1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)