ASRock Z87M Extreme4 vs MSI Z87M Gaming.

[KSnitgaard]

Could any 1 help me point out if there's any big difference between these boards except for the little over 30$?
I know they are Micro-ATX. Which is what I'm looking for. Case: Corsair 350D. This is mainly a gaming rig and the motherboard will be equiped with an I5-4670k CPU.

MSI: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z87mgaming

ASRock: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z87mextreme4

Appreciate any input.

 

[Shneiky]

I would personally pick the AsRock. Been their customer for years and they never let me down since the Pentium 4 LGA 775 era. I don't trust MSI anymore after I had some major issues with them back in the days, but people say the same for any company. In the end there is not much of a difference, just that the ASRock costs less, has a power design I would trust more and, well that's it.

P.S But then again, I am known on this forum as an Asus/AsRock fan. Sure some MSI fans will follow.

 

[SchizTech]

It looks like the MSI board charges more for the "Killer" LAN chip. That's probably mostly hype (and internet performance depends a lot on your provider to begin with)

 

[sincreator]

I'd go for the MSI board. Guru3d really liked it's performance and features a lot: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_z87m_review_gaming,21.html Myself and 2 brothers have been running MSI boards for over 3 years now, without a hitch. They have come a long way.

 

[KSnitgaard]

So as I was assuming there's not a whole lot of difference between the boards.
And since I live in Denmark and there's an even bigger price difference here (Little past 50$) I guess I'm leaning more towards picking the ASRock.
If all there is to mention of difference is the "Killer" lan chip, I'm definitely gonna go with the ASRock. Since my internet provider is pretty decent. I'm suppost to have a 40Mbit DL, and with lan on my old laptop I'm getting between 35-40Mbit every time I test it. So that shouldn't really be any problem.

 

[Gee Bee]

Extreme 4 continues to get regular recommendations on Tom's. I continue to recommend it based on such reports. Iv'e only ever used ASUS and Gigabyte mobos for more than a decade. The price is right to for such comprehensive oc tweaking and the MSI is not nearly as popular as Extreme 4. At least that how's it appears, i've been wrong before mind you.