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Hello,

I'm planning to get myself gaming PC with a good MB. And I have several options:
Asrock Z87 Extreme4
Asus Maximus VI Formula
Asus Maximus VI Hero
Asus Maximus VI Gene
MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming

I like the ASUS MBs, but they are quite expensive (overpriced?). And I checked internet that MSI Z87 is quite good and received high marks. Can someone give me like pros/cons of those MBs or in general they are all the same and just some not essential differences for gaming?
 
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Damn, there all excellent. My preference is Hero. It's sits nicely between it counter parts and gives up nothing in performance.
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techgeek

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The Maximus VI Hero is an excellent motherboard and the cheapest of the Maximus boards. I've had no issues with it thus far. Didn't have much time to overclock yet since I built the new computer less than a week before I had to go to work. I don't think that the Hero is overpriced, and it doesn't come with a lot of fluff that you don't need.

I can't speak to the MSI boards, but I've read really critical reviews of AsRock boards.
 
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Gee Bee

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Not on Tom's you wouldn't have (well not many)

And with some recommendations from very senior members. However, i'm in the Asus/Gigibyte and i'll be dead before i deviate :)
Trust me, i,m pretty old, so that maybe not to far away.lol
 
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I am full on ASUS fan. Used to like GigaByte, but I had a motherboard fail under warranty, they fixed it and a year later the same thing again only the second time it was out of warranty. At that point I was a 50 - 50, which ever offered the best bang for the buck, now strictly a ASUS guy and I've never had a bad board from them. I have had 10+ year old boards from them going strong. In fact my wife has a P5 DH Deluxe (one of the first to support Conroe) that I purchased in 2006 still running in her machine.

As for AsRock, I've read reviews that criticized cheap PCB's, quirky BIOS / UEFI implementations, poor layouts, etc. Can't say that it was or was not Tom's but I read the likes of HardOCP, Anandtech, PC Per, Guru3D, all in all, easily as respectable, trustworthy sites as Tom's. Actually to be honest it might have been HardOCP that singled out the issue of cheap quality PCB's. As a old guy myself and someone who works with this stuff (not PC's but high tech industrial electronics) as my profession, flags go up when someone mentions cheap, thin, overly flexible PCB's.
 
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I still believe the hero is better option IMO. The Sabre will be a cooler running mobo, but that is what appropriate case airflow is for. Performance and spec wise is not to different.
http://promos.asus.com/us/z87/comparison/
 
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I was torn when I bought the Hero, I really liked the Sabretooth as well. I liked the TUF certification and the longer warranty. However the warranty you get with the Hero is really long enough. In the end, I just couldn't justify spending more on the Sabretooth when the Hero was just as good a motherboard.

 
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Have you not considered GENE? I believe it was much cheaper than HERO for the same performance. Note that as per this link, GENE has more USB3 slots than hero

GENE = 6/2 (rear/internal)
HERO = 4/2 (rear/internal)

http://promos.asus.com/us/z87/comparison/
 
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