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ASUS Z87-A LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
 
Won't Even Post to BIOS
- Pros: Board installed easily, looks great, solid feel, LED lights almost to the point of letting you know your coffee is finished brewing! Easy to use fan headers, easy access to power headers, STAT ports, etc.
- Cons: Cannot get the board to recognize the RAM. Tried (2) 8GB sticks of Mushkin and (4) 4GB sticks of Corsair (all DDR3 1600). Tried every combination from single sticks on up. Tested the RAM in alternate systems and all RAM is recognized and tests out perfectly. I've been reading on other forums the ASUS Z87 boards are having issues with RAM and boot up. Not happy! Looks as if I'll have no choice but to RMA the board.
- Other Thoughts: This isn't my first system build, by a long shot. I've never had an issue with ASUS products in the past, so this is very disappointing. I usually recommend ASUS components and apparently, I will need to re-evaluate those recommendations! Anyone from ASUS on here that has a suggestion? Kind of tough to do anything when I can't even reach a BIOS screen!
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Reviewed By:Randy,6/19/2013 2:59:51 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is Somewhat High and has owned this product 1 week to 1 month.
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MSI Z77A-G41 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
Cheap but failing features
- Pros: Cost? Works as long as you don't want a RAID 5 setup. I've seen a lot of issues with USB 3.0. I dodged those issues mine work.
- Cons: Setting up RAID 5 causes blue screens repeatedly. Bought the board b/c of the great price/features promised. set up the sytstem with a fresh Windows 8 install using an SSD drive. All was fine in the world. Then I bought 4x 3TB Western Digital Red drives tested each all are working perfect. Go into bios to turn on RAID and BOOM blue screens of death. Turn off RAID and business as usual. the fact that I can't RAID is a deal breaker for me.
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Reviewed By:Not a big fan of MSI,6/19/2013 2:34:00 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is average and has owned this product 1 week to 1 month.
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GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-OC Force LGA 1150 Intel Z87 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
Z87X-OC Force
- Pros: Orange and Black
OC Features
PLX Bypass
16 phase IR PWMs
Overclocking - Cons: Price, I guess it is a premium product and you get what you pay for, but it is very expensive none the less.
- Other Thoughts: You obviously don't have to use the watercooling, I just unplugged both the fans that the board comes with and I also don't use the watercooling. I have used the board for a while now with a 4.8ghz OC 24/7(delidded my CPU) and my VRM heatsink never gets hot. So straight up the watercooling barbs are un-needed and are just marketing, same with the fans.
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Reviewed By:godofthunder,6/19/2013 2:27:31 PM
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GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Worst board setup ever
- Pros: It is new. debug codes easy to access/read.
- Cons: Needs a PS2 key board to install BIOS/OS on a fresh blank sytem. USB is the standard being required to find a PS2 to load system settings, bios, os, drivers etc is simply unacceptable, had I known this I would have moved on and purchased a different more modern product. Also cannnot load more than 2 sticks of memory or system will not post. Owners guide/manual is very short on information.
- Other Thoughts: This is a case of putting and evening gown on a street walker and hoping no one will notice the oozing sores ...
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Reviewed By:JustMe,6/19/2013 12:52:26 PM
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ASUS MAXIMUS VI GENE LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Listed feature not included
- Pros: - Lovely red accents
- Lots of settings to tweak with - Cons: - Doesn't include WiFi/Bluetooth card listed in features. At the end of install instructions, it says must be purchased separately. Also couldn't fit a card borrowed from a laptop into the holder. Listing stated "A dual-band 2.4/5 GHz Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac and Bluetooth v4.0 card, bundled into its mini PCI Express 2.0 port on one side, along with the M.2 socket, which supports a SSD add-on, save valuable space on the motherboard." and "mPCIe Combo II - Latest Dual-Band Wi-Fi 802.11AC with New Antennas, Bluetooth 4.0, and M.2 SSD support".
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Reviewed By:Bernie Midget,6/19/2013 12:48:57 PM
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ASUS P9X79 LE LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with USB BIOS
bunk reviews
- Pros: great board
inexpensive for an LGA 2011 socket mobo
USB bios flash is super simple and convenient
lights on the board communicate issues to you - Cons: only 2x sata 3 slots
- Other Thoughts: if you read carefully and with a bit of skepticism, you will determine that most of the negative reviews are from clueless people that damaged their boards lol.
"my mobo came with bent pins and now i cant get a refund." yeah rightttttttt. more like you tried to jam an LGA 1155 chip into an LGA 2011 board and broke it.
i read several reviews from people that obviously broke their boards due to their own incompetency. then they give the board 1-star and it makes ASUS look bad.
ladies and gents, ASUS doesnt ship mobos with bent pins. it happens zero percent of the time
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Reviewed By:Captainthrall,6/19/2013 12:00:23 PM
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ASRock Z87 Extreme4 LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
AVOID
- Pros: On paper, seems like a good board
- Cons: -BIOS is UEFI, but the background looks like its from a website from the 90's
-BIOS seems to display incorrect values for voltages at times (found mention of this across the web
-Physical layout is terrible. HD audio header is at backside at or betweeen where pci cards would meet the back of the case, means you have to run front cables over board.
-PCI slots, pci-e 1x blocked by dual slot cards.
-Ugly
-Software was useless, RAMdisk software had issues in that it would not keep settings saved. OC software wouldnt work (prefer bios anyway but tried it)
- Other Thoughts: Replaced with a MSI Z87-G45. Same price at the time.
Looks much better, has pci-e slots instead of legacy pci, enough pci-e slots that dual slot card still leaves at least 2 pci-e x1 slots available. audio headers at bottom of board with other audio headers. Better sound and better NIC.
BIOS on MSI board is WAY better. Had gotten a good Asrock board for a FM1 platform, bought another for FM2 and this one because i had a good experience with that board and both had major issues.
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Reviewed By:N/A,6/19/2013 10:39:32 AM
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Intel BOXDZ68BC LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Not sure yet
- Pros: I so needed a newer board w/ at least 2 PCI slots for my super expensive audio cards.
- Cons: Be mindful of your chip & generation. I bought a gen. 3 and it originally worked w/ a gen. 2 or less. Thanks to Intel, I'm waiting for a 404 version (they go from 400 to 404 BIOS) that should work w/ my gen. 3 processor and everything else. The 'sale' one which I exchanged twice was a 402 version. Unfortunately I have to EAT this first board after several attempts at installation. Bent pins. No thanks to Newegg for selling me a mismatched processor. Hate saying it. But I feel like I made several 'rookie' mistakes as well. Dual channel memory, get 2 sticks; 32bit OS=4Gb; 64bitOS= up to 32GB;Check the manufacturer's website, the processor. and the BIOS version first before you build your new awesome machine. Or you'll be sorely disappointed like me for a month; and many phone calls later...
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Reviewed By:N/A,6/19/2013 10:05:38 AM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is Somewhat High and has owned this product 1 week to 1 month.
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