The 2nd "AsRock Extreme 4" listed in the poll, totally blows away the 1st "AsRock Extreme 4" listed.
Sorry guys i was out of town. I'll get the UDH5 BK and I'll order when the H220X will be available. Although I'm still not so sure lol. I'm hesitating between that one and the Hero or the Hero if it becomes available in Canada. Any idea when it will be?
Just got the Hero. I'm in Canada. It's available from Direct Canada. I PM'd it at NCIX @ 225 CDN.
Only one day of usage with no OCing yet (4790k, with a Phanteks PH-TC14PE_BK on the way), but I'm impressed with the board so far. It is sexy.
I chose it for a few reasons:
1 - I didn't want a cheap board. I wanted something that I knew would be reliable in the medium to long term with an OC. Higher quality components matter to me.
2 - I wanted to try a gaming board. I know the differences are not that significant, but I wanted to try it for myself to understand. Plus e-peen. I can admit e-peen.
3 - My last board was a Sabertooth 990fx, and I had great experiences with that. I trust ASUS to deliver.
4 - This review sold me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW4soqs-MEY - basically start to finish this guy loves the board & bios.
5 - It has a very visible error code screen thing, which I had once on an old MSI board and loved when it began to age and act up in weird ways.
6 - OC ability seems strong.
Coming from an AMD chipset, I tried to swap over without having to reinstall Windows, and while it did boot up there were enough driver issues for me to wipe it clean and start again.
The only concern I have with this board is the amount of flex it has. It may just be that coming from the Sabertooth I was spoiled and didn't have this concern then, but in the install I did notice what seemed like a tremendous amount of flex in the board, particularly when trying to secure the 24-pin ATX power supply connector. I honestly thought I was going to break it. The PCI-E pins and the springs within them are very tight, which meant I had to push a bit harder than I was comfortable with in order to get the two gpus in, and there was a lot of flex there too. No breakage but I was nervous.
If you are still deciding, I'll post my OC results once I get my Phanteks. But it will be a bit handicapped by my garbage ram. 2 x 4GB @ 1333.
Only one day of usage with no OCing yet (4790k, with a Phanteks PH-TC14PE_BK on the way), but I'm impressed with the board so far. It is sexy.
I chose it for a few reasons:
1 - I didn't want a cheap board. I wanted something that I knew would be reliable in the medium to long term with an OC. Higher quality components matter to me.
2 - I wanted to try a gaming board. I know the differences are not that significant, but I wanted to try it for myself to understand. Plus e-peen. I can admit e-peen.
3 - My last board was a Sabertooth 990fx, and I had great experiences with that. I trust ASUS to deliver.
4 - This review sold me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW4soqs-MEY - basically start to finish this guy loves the board & bios.
5 - It has a very visible error code screen thing, which I had once on an old MSI board and loved when it began to age and act up in weird ways.
6 - OC ability seems strong.
Coming from an AMD chipset, I tried to swap over without having to reinstall Windows, and while it did boot up there were enough driver issues for me to wipe it clean and start again.
The only concern I have with this board is the amount of flex it has. It may just be that coming from the Sabertooth I was spoiled and didn't have this concern then, but in the install I did notice what seemed like a tremendous amount of flex in the board, particularly when trying to secure the 24-pin ATX power supply connector. I honestly thought I was going to break it. The PCI-E pins and the springs within them are very tight, which meant I had to push a bit harder than I was comfortable with in order to get the two gpus in, and there was a lot of flex there too. No breakage but I was nervous.
If you are still deciding, I'll post my OC results once I get my Phanteks. But it will be a bit handicapped by my garbage ram. 2 x 4GB @ 1333.
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The m7 Hero is fraught with problems/DOAs.. whereas the m7 Gene is not.
AsRock OCF is one of the best.
The Giga is 2nd best..Yes both colr schemes are..bright.
As for Extreme4 vs Biostar z97..
The Biostar has better-quality mosfets and inductors + more of them.
also it allows a full voltage range for overclocking/has LN2 jumper, even.Oh..and I just found out it comes with moisture-proof coating
The Extreme4 will not supply enough voltage to run Samsung sticks @ 2800mhz+ I didn't even get into the Vcore range with it..not having enough RAM voltage was a deal breaker for me.I packed it up and shipped it back immediately.
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http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Motherboa...sus+sabertooth
If you can stand the color I don't think you could do much better for $159.99. Latest Realtek onboard chipset and its well shielded.
"Realtek® ALC1150 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- Supports : Jack-detection, Multi-streaming, Front Panel Jack-retasking
- High quality 112 dB SNR stereo playback output (Line-out at rear) and 104 dB SNR recording input (Line-in)
Audio Feature :
- Absolute Pitch 192kHz/ 24-bit True BD Lossless Sound
- Optical S/PDIF out port(s) at back panel
- BD Audio Layer Content Protection
- Audio Shielding: Ensures precision analog/digital separation and greatly reduced multi-lateral interference
- Dedicated audio PCB layers: Separate layers for left and right channels to guard the quality of the sensitive audio signals
- Audio amplifier: Provides the highest-quality sound for headphone and speakers
- Unique de-pop circuit: Reduces start-up popping noise to audio outputs"
If you can stand the color I don't think you could do much better for $159.99. Latest Realtek onboard chipset and its well shielded.
"Realtek® ALC1150 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- Supports : Jack-detection, Multi-streaming, Front Panel Jack-retasking
- High quality 112 dB SNR stereo playback output (Line-out at rear) and 104 dB SNR recording input (Line-in)
Audio Feature :
- Absolute Pitch 192kHz/ 24-bit True BD Lossless Sound
- Optical S/PDIF out port(s) at back panel
- BD Audio Layer Content Protection
- Audio Shielding: Ensures precision analog/digital separation and greatly reduced multi-lateral interference
- Dedicated audio PCB layers: Separate layers for left and right channels to guard the quality of the sensitive audio signals
- Audio amplifier: Provides the highest-quality sound for headphone and speakers
- Unique de-pop circuit: Reduces start-up popping noise to audio outputs"
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