I'm really leaning towards asus maximum and the formula. The sabortooth is still appealing but I think the formula would be better. The formula adds more power inputs and the watercooling ability straight out of the box. One question for anyone with the formula or knowledge of, the watercooling blocks on board are aluminum and ive read not to mix that with copper (which is what the die is for my cpu block and gpu block, so should I not use this for watercooling then?
But I'm a big fan of asus, maybe go msi but really big fan of asus and never done me wrong. Board price $200-400, more towards 200 unless there is a benefit from a step up, like maximus is great, but formula adds a lot of features I believe worth the price difference.
I'm coming from a fx 8350 overclocked to 5.1, will be going to i7 4770k and heavily overclocking, and love on board features.
Rest of my system is corsair 540 case, 2x intel 530 240gb ssd raid, 3x 3tb sagate hhd raid, gtx 770 but will be upgrading once new nvida gpu comes out probably going 780ti unless the new ones are that much better, have custom water cooling, 360mm rad, 240mm rad, and 140mm rad. D5 pump on 170mm photon res, raystorm cpu block, xsps gpu full water block, 16 gb vengeance ram, ultra 850w plat psu, raid bay for 3 3.25 hhd's with 80mm fan, 2nd 80mm fan for exhaust on back half of behind motherboard section of case.
But I'm a big fan of asus, maybe go msi but really big fan of asus and never done me wrong. Board price $200-400, more towards 200 unless there is a benefit from a step up, like maximus is great, but formula adds a lot of features I believe worth the price difference.
I'm coming from a fx 8350 overclocked to 5.1, will be going to i7 4770k and heavily overclocking, and love on board features.
Rest of my system is corsair 540 case, 2x intel 530 240gb ssd raid, 3x 3tb sagate hhd raid, gtx 770 but will be upgrading once new nvida gpu comes out probably going 780ti unless the new ones are that much better, have custom water cooling, 360mm rad, 240mm rad, and 140mm rad. D5 pump on 170mm photon res, raystorm cpu block, xsps gpu full water block, 16 gb vengeance ram, ultra 850w plat psu, raid bay for 3 3.25 hhd's with 80mm fan, 2nd 80mm fan for exhaust on back half of behind motherboard section of case.