Asus H97M-E VS Gigabyte H97M-D3H

[MrFunktastic]

I'm choosing a mobo in building my new rig for gaming/school, and I narrowed my choices to these two. Ideally I'd like to stay under $100 for a mobo. I've heard good and bad things from both brands, so does anyone have experience with these boards and offer an opinion, or maybe even a better alternative? My planned build if that matters: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/MrFunktastic/saved/WmbwrH

Update: I was originally choosing between an ASRock H97 PRO4 and the Gigabyte board, but I decided an Asus board I found was better. Check latest post.

 

[TechyInAZ]

I've been using gigabyte boards for years, and except for their new and terrible embedded solution mobos, their regular mainstream desktop boards are great and reliable.

 

[MrFunktastic]

I've been using gigabyte boards for years, and except for their new and terrible embedded solution mobos, their regular mainstream desktop boards are great and reliable.

Thanks for the advice! Decided I'd eliminate the AsRock I was considering with this pretty good Asus I found(http://pcpartpicker.com/mr/amazon/asus-motherboard-h97me). This one is about $10 more than the Gigabyte but I figure it would be worth it for brand alone, as I always see people say that Asus is top of the line brand for mobos and I figure I would get one that I know will be reliable and will last me a long time. Definitely leaning towards the Asus right now, but does the Gigabyte model have any advantages?

 

[TechyInAZ]

What I've noticed is that gigabyte stays simple (which is what I like) while Asus has all these nice features like automatic overclocking and such. I never will use all the fancy features like asus has which is why I like gigabyte's simple BIOS.