Which Motherboard would you pick?

[TylerS]

ASRock Z68 Extreme3 - $80
MSI Z77A-G45 - $110
GA-Z77-D3H - $105

These three boards are on sale and I am considering buying one of the three.

I will be pairing them with a 2500K or 3570K and 8GB Ram.

Is seems feature wize there isn't much difference. Being Z68 the Asrock doesn't come with LucidMVP, but neither does the MSI.

Would I be making any sacrifices by buying the Z68 board?

 

[Insert_Nickname]

ASRock Z68 Extreme3 - $80
MSI Z77A-G45 - $110
GA-Z77-D3H - $105

These three boards are on sale and I am considering buying one of the three.

I will be pairing them with a 2500K or 3570K and 8GB Ram.

Is seems feature wize there isn't much difference. Being Z68 the Asrock doesn't come with LucidMVP, but neither does the MSI.

Would I be making any sacrifices by buying the Z68 board?

Z68 does not support USB3 natively, but many boards have a 3rd party controller. Also PCIe 3.0 compatibility, some boards support it others don't. It's really the Ivy Bridge CPU that enables PCIe 3.0, but motherboard traces have to be designed for it. I think that's about it.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Why aren't you considering a Z77 board?

 

[suteck]

Doesn't really answer your question but I would go with the 3570K chip and a motherboard that can use the advantages that come with it. Like the intel graphics 4000, pci-e 3.0, only 77 watts instead of 95 watts and 3 monitor support instead of just 2. I say, get your money's worth.

That chip and this -ASUS P8B75-V LGA 1155 Intel B75 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard from NEWEGG for only $95 would make a great combination.

 

[Charlie98]

If I was buying an ATX board today I would get the Z77-D3H with the 3570K chip.