motherboards with built in wifi adapters, any good?

[random betrayal]

I am in the research phase for replacing my ancient laptop with a new desktop.

The location of the computer means no ethernet cable. I asked in the networking section about powerline vs. the AC wifi standard and that discussion is on going,

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2360334

but as I searched parts the following asrock board came up:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

and I was wondering if anyone has any views on motherboards with the built in wifi. There is an ASUS board with basically the same features but it is $40-50 more than the asrock.

The reviews on newegg are generally positive, but I seldom trust those...

 

[Alan G]

I've used the Gigabyte GA H77N WiFi in a workstation and two HTPC Builds. The HTPCs do all their streaming via WiFi and it works just fine. Gigabyte make an Z87N board for Haswell chips (my builds are with Ivy Bridge and are not OCed which is why I didn't get the Z chipset): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128615