What is the best z170 motherboard?

[Guest]

Hello

I would like to know if there is a winner among the z170 motherboards around 300$ or i can just prefer looks or whatever ?
Do you have any suggestion?

Thank you for your help

 

[Tradesman1]

I just got the Asus Z170 Hero, their Z87 and Z97 Hero's were tthe best rated and best selling, as well as the best I built on for clients, am trying a 6600K with 32GB of Trident Z in mine (well waiting for the release of the Trident Z, just got a 2x8GB set of Ripjaws V 3000 yesterday so I can at least get it up and running till they release the Z line (with my luck probably in the next couple of days )

 

[Guest]

Any flaws with it? Or it functions as intended?
Do you miss the killer e2400 internet thingy the other mobos have or never even thought ablout it?

 

[Tradesman1]

All basically use Gb ethernet chipsets, and most have software that lets you quasi manage the stream of data, the Asus has their LANGuard and GameFirst tech. I like the audio, OCing, DRAM management, fact they run cool, great BIOS

 

[Guest]

Any stability issues? We expect none from a rog hero right?
The things i read on review forums is that it is a must have (kitguru) platinum editors choise kind of board

 

[Tradesman1]

Putting it together today and tomorrow, have a few odds and ends I want to try with it (GPUs, PSUs, drives) basically when I build for myself I play the first few days

 

[Guest]

My last board was an asrock fm2a55 dgs and i would like a worlds better motherboard something like a day night change
The thing is the gigabyte z170 gaming 7 eu the rog viii hero and the msi gaming 7 trade blows so its terribly hard to coose :/
This is when a there is real competition among products and companies

 

[Tradesman1]

I generally look to Asus first, then the Rock followed by Gigabyte for Intel mobos, those are the only 3 I'll build on for myself or clients, won't touch MSI due to their poor QC.

 

[Guest]

What is QC?

The only thing gigabyte has over rog hero is a second ethernet connection on the back
not really a gamechanger but it comes with no additional cost

 

[Exeonx]

I'd say get the RoG hero, I own one as well and they come with quite some nice perks, however all the additional tools were a bit overwhealming, the amount of fine-tuning you can do is amazing.

 

[Guest]

Nobody for the gigabyte ? lol
Well this means something too xD

The boards will arrive at sepember 16th i will check the giga too but probably buy the rog hero and send back the rest

 

[Tradesman1]

Drop us an update

 

[Guest]

Ok i will for sure
I also ordered some x99 mobos like the msi x99a mpower and the i7 5820k so there is a chanse i will go for that not much chanse thou

 

[Guest]

I ordered the rog hero viii but still dont know
Gb z170 gaming 7 has more features
But rog hero viii ocs better and feels more stable i decided next to this
But gb can be the better mobo if it gets a better bios update fixing xmp vdroop and gliches hmm...