good z77 motherboard for gaming

[froller2]

hey lads, i'm currently looking for z77 lga 1155 for a gaming system, my budget is around 250dollars

what im looking for in it is durable parts, and easy overclocking.

 

[Eduello]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z77ws

You would probably get better bang for your buck if you went with an LGA1150 system.

 

[junkeymonkey]

most are played out and out of stock for the better mid/top boards but that z77 extreme 4 is still around and looking at the reviews at newegg it must be a popular item lots of folks bought into it .. I run asrock z87 exe6 and so far so good with it

 

[froller2]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z77ws

You would probably get better bang for your buck if you went with an LGA1150 system.

i dont think there is a big difrence between 1150 witha 4670k and 1155 and a 3570k

 

[Eduello]

The CPUs are pretty much equal in price and the 4670k is only a bit better, but the motherboards for LGA 1150 offer much better bang for your buck.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($223.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme6/ac ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($199.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $423.96
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-25 13:08 EDT-0400)

This would get you slightly better performance and a board with 12 phase VRM design.

If you really, really want LGA1155, go with the Z77 version of that board. The one I linked earlier is a bit better, but very overpriced.

 

[junkeymonkey]

yes I also feel your better with haswell theres a lot more of that then ib stuff to choose from

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Asrock Z77 Extreme 4

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($128.48 @ OutletPC)
Total: $128.48
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-25 13:11 EDT-0400)

 

[Tradesman1]

Asrock Z77 Extreme 4

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($128.48 @ OutletPC)
Total: $128.48
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-25 13:11 EDT-0400)

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+1 It's the best selling and best rated, have mine in sig, Love it

 

[froller2]

Asrock Z77 Extreme 4

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($128.48 @ OutletPC)
Total: $128.48
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-25 13:11 EDT-0400)

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+1 It's the best selling and best rated, have mine in sig, Love it

ive heard alot of bad things about and also alot of good things about it?, could you give me some pros/cons youve had with it?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Great board all the way around , super stable and overclocks very well.

 

[Eduello]

^^Listen to the professionals, I'm not that knowledgeable on Z77 boards.

 

[froller2]

^^Listen to the professionals, I'm not that knowledgeable on Z77 boards.

hehe:E

 

[froller2]

Great board all the way around , super stable and overclocks very well.

guess ill go that and some corsai fans for my case:E

 

[Tradesman1]

I initially picked mine up to just play with figuring I'd move to ROG mobo, and never found a need to, OCs great and handled everything I threw at it with no problems, which is/was a lot, i use it to test components for new builds, throw in components to test and make sure they are working correctly...Have run up through 290Xs and 780s in XFire/SLI, am running 32 GB of 2400 Tridents on mine, OCs great...for me I've stuuck with it and built a slew of them in addition to other Z77 mobos, haven't found anything that really beats it out, especially at the price