Need help to choose between GA-B85M vs ASUS B85M

[Kimshiyun]

Hi,
I couldn't find reviews regarding these two motherboards so I am a bit confused as which to chose from the two:
Gigabyte GA-B85M-HD3-A link here
ASUS B85M-GAMER link here

Could someone help me choose which is better considering the quality-board and features?
The motherboard will be used for 3D works/modeling, gaming, modding-games. And possibly working from 8 to 24hours/day.

PC SPEC:
CASE: Thermaltake Core V21 Back (Micro-ATX)
CPU: Intel i3-4160 or i5-4460 or i5-4590S
CPU-FAN: Intel Fan Aluminum+Copper base.
RAM: Avexir PC1600 8GBx2 Core Black
PSU: EVGA Supernova 550 GS 550w
GPU: Gigabyte R7 360 OC 2GB or possibly a GTX 960 Gigabyte WinForce2 4GB

Which of the two motherboards would your recommend for me? and please explain why?

 

[MCID47]

Well, motherboard version may not effect on your 3D modeling and rendering. I prefer Gigabyte because of their customer support and service does the job. B85 is quite sufficient as long as you're not planned for overclocking.

 

[Kimshiyun]

Well, motherboard version may not effect on your 3D modeling and rendering. I prefer Gigabyte because of their customer support and service does the job. B85 is quite sufficient as long as you're not planned for overclocking.

Thanks for the reply.
At first I was going for the Gigabyte (despite the fact that I am an Asus user for about 5years now ), but was a bit worried that some motherboards with 16GB max and due to some limitations they can only make use of 15GB out of the 16GB installed. So I looked for the GA-B85M-D3H but no chance. And yesterday found new boards at the shop so that's why I thought about the ASUS motherboard since it has 4DIMM slots and 32GB.
And after reading that I got more worried that the GA-B85M-HD3-A is related to the article.
What do you think?

 

[MCID47]

If you really want to push the max. amount of the memory that can be used by your system, the ASUS board should be your choice, but if you are fine with 16GB and you think its fine, then you have no worry to go for GA-B85M-D3H.

And yeah, i never heard of pushing a maximum supported memory can cut some memory, except for hardware reserved than sometimes can take up a few megabytes from your memory. I'm currently using a Core i5 with ECS H110M4-C21 for office use with 16GB of Kingston 8x2 DDR4 2133MHz, the motherboards can handle 16 Gigs memory without losing its capacity, there are 8 Megabytes for Hardware though. The articles, well, i think its not such a big problem for office or small workstation configuration, as long as youre not planning with any serious overclocking with your system, you should be fine. So what i think about these mobo is; if you really want more memory slot for heavy multitasking (not really, 32GB is too much for standard rendering system) and somewhat about customer statifaction, then you can go for ASUS board. IF you really don't even bother about how the internet says because Gigabyte is also a good company and don't need more memory than 16GB of system memory, then you can go for Gigabyte boards, there's no big different between both of ASUS board and Gigabyte board for this case, they're using a same chipset.

You can Consider picking this gigabyte board for saving some budget, for the same performance comparison.

 

[jay_rogers]

I would go with ASUS B85M-E providing 4 RAM slots and boards utilizes Dual-Channel RAM architecture, which is the most common configuration. Even it is also cost effective.