candy_van

Putting a mATX 1156 build together and it's come down to these two boards:

Gigabyte P55M-UD4 or Asus Maximus III Gene

Gigabyte has 14-phase power for CPU, Asus has 10
I've seen i5 750s tap out at roughly 4GHz (in reviews) with the Gigabyte, but me thinks the Asus should still be able to hit 200+ BLK just as easily, and I'd like to see 4.2GHz

I've also used my share of Gigabyte boards in the past and like their BIOS. Asus I'm not so much a fan of in that dept, but I know I should be able to get what I need done regardless...

EVGA also has a mATX offering, but I'm not so hot on it's 6-phase delivery (know it has Lotes socket but meh) :/


Votes, thoughts/opinions and any personal experience with these boards are greatly appreciated!

Thanks - CV

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keenan

Two things...

* Your info about gigabyte not having turbo boost is wrong..

* You'd wanna go with the Gigabyte

Look at the 3rd pic of the bios...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=237166


Incase you're still doubtfull.. I've got the budget version of that one, the Gigabyte P55-UD2..

What I'm running now

candy_van

Hmmm well alot of reviews showed the UD4 with a max of 20x multi...

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keenan

Right there...

Clever ninja edit..

candy_van

Thanks, I'm stealthy like that.

OK well clearly it can handle 21x, but all the reviews I have read suggested that the board was not stable with it, and using 20x was the only way to even POST when shooting for 4+ ...teh eph?

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keenan

Clearly I'm not down with the lingady...

At the end of the day you need to go with your gut, that's what I did...

Gigabyte has always been top of the line for me..