Gigabyte UD4 or Asrock Ex 6

[michaela]

Hi All,

I am going to make the leap to P67 instead of H67 I have been looking at these 2 boards which one would be the best to use. or is there another one which is better? I have a budget of £160- 170.

 

[Tortuga]

I would go with the Gigabyte. Also gigabyte has the UD3 to consider also. What are you plans for the machine?

 

[michaela]

just been looking at the UD3 and UD4 and can not see any difference really? Just looking to get a but more hands on with my hardware again. may do some video editing, photo to.

 

[Tortuga]

The UD3 or UD4 will do you just perfectly, as long as your using a single graphics card.

 

[yuri04]

The differences according to the Gigabyte site between the P67A-UD4 and the P67A-UD3:

The UD4 has:

-Support for Dolby Home Theatre

-Support for CrossfireX and Nvidia SLI (UD3 has only CrossfireX)

-Second Graphics slot runs on x8 (x4 on the UD3)

-Extra Marvell 88SE9128 chip (controls 2 E-sate 6gb/s, support for RAID 0 and 1)

-14 USB 2.0/1.1 connections (12 for the UD3)

-A second Renesas D720200 chip for up to 4 USB 3.0/2.0 connections (2 on the backpanel and 2 with connectors) vs only the 2 on the back on the UD3

-the UD4 also has 12 Phase power (couldn't find how many there are on the UD3)