This board vs asus z97-pro. i really need an opinion for this thank you
1578888
Go with the Gigabyte. Asus used to be the best in my opinion, but I heard that a lot of their employees went to Gigabyte a few years ago. So it's no coincidence that Gigabyte's quality has improved. Of all the manufacturers of hardware out there, I would rate Gigabyte as number one, followed by Asus and EVGA.
1578889
I too would go with gig, just returned an asus mobo for being doa, newegg tech aggreed ! Newegg is not the company it used to be either - which is why I am here :-)
1988053
The maximus impact has an mpcie slot that the z97i does not have. If you don't plan on using it I don't see why you'd spend the extra money. FYI the audio line in picks up interference from my 970.
54581
Im using this on a Asus pro intel board and a Extreme9 asrock 990fx am3+ board on the intel it works great, on my amd I had to set it to 1800 speed in bio to work. And I dont like my asrock board I should of went with a Asus or MSI. The Asus may work better then my Asrock with that ram. It should be fine with that board you may just have to play with the speed settings if it has any problems.
1432308
I assume its all about what u need it for, im currently running that matherboard with 1600's and i have not expierienced any issues, however i only use mine for personal internet and gaming, as you may already know games these days are more graphics card demanding then cpu...that being said in my opinion faster is better but i am still learning the pc world myself
353442
No, and I would not recommend this Mobo to anyone! Asus also just so happens to have some of the worst customer support. Give it a try call them tell them you just bought something of theirs that is defective and its to late to return it to the store. They will want you to pay for the S&H; to and from them even if they make mistakes.
242865
What I would build that one with is a 990 series mb which is a am3+ series mb's. MSI has them Gigabyte,Asrock just look for AM3+ and you will see the 990 number in the descriptions.
2096527
Something is wrong with these boards do a search for finding 9370 will not boot, will not post etc. Not a good board
495579
I personally regret not going with the M5A99 for 2 reasons. I already had 2 Nvidia cards I planned to SLI and found out this board only supports cross fire. One of the sata ports is blocked by my video card so I am limited in adding drives since I am already using 4 ports.
1923397
HI I HAVE THIS BOARD WITH AMD 8350 AT 5GHz ULTRA stable this board is a beast
2109032
Yes, but if you want to OC this board you are going to be limited. Would recommend the extreme series over the pro series, if your are a gamer, though.
1921789
The asus bios was made to do simple overclocking. You type in your voltage and go, but the board itself wouldn't be the part at risk. Feeding higher voltage to your CPU and GPU will be the risky part. I'm not a fan of the concept, but the board will let you give it a shot.
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Shouldn't be a problem. I know the Asus Z77 Nuvoton chips have some problems with anything older than the 3.10 kernal. I haven't heard anything wrong with the Gigabyte version though. I think Linux Mint has one or two very select issues? But, this was around a year ago when I heard of the problem. The only issue I've had with the board was the fact that I had to update the BIOS firmware to run a newer graphics card. But, you will probably do that anyway. The LED POST display is super useful if you need to troubleshoot something, just drop the number it shoots out into Google.
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Gigabyte HybridEFI is the worst EFI implementation anywhere, hands down. I would avoid buying a new Gigabyte board with "dual bios" an "hybrid EFI" for that reason alone. It'll work ok if you only run a single install of Windows and only use the default setup, but anything else is asking for trouble.Get the Asus.
1296354
It's an obsolete board, the current version (Z97) is much cheaper. I can's imagine why someone would buy this, but if they had a real gem of an 1155 CPU, maybe it's worth it to the right person?
156391
my opinion, dont get this board. i had issues with it having bad DIMMs, the dual channel didnt work and kept crashing to blue sceen. just do a quick google of this board and ram issues and you will see what i had to go through. save yourself some grief and go for another board.
2280486
i got this for my asrock z97 extreme9 mobo and its flawless, i love this ram if your willing to spend the moneh :D
1906585
No, boards like these are never as efficient as having a motherboard with an embedded interface. That said, there are speed improvements - See my posting for the speed increases I saw.