Tom's sample of the Asus board was even so bad at overclocking that the GD-65 Gaming could reach the same clockspeeds.
And he had a good MSI board (possibly). So the review was for that specific board rather than a general review for all MVIE boards (if we're saying it was a bad sample).
I think it only has 2 more SATA ports than the D3HP, which means 32TB instead of 24TB of storage. That's a lot of games, but possible I guess.
Onboard switches being handy? Inside a case or do most gamers use testbenches?
Maybe I am being hard on MSI, but I've had bad experiences with them in the past so find it hard to believe they've made the perfect board.
The Z87X-OC review seems to show the Gigabyte board beating the MSI board in a number of benchmarks too. It also has even more onboard buttons, an extra PCI-e slot and the stupid PCI brace and it cost £7.20 more and only gets a 9 for value. Presumably because of the lack of ASMedia SATA ports? It also hit 5.1GHz.
I'm wondering about the consistency of the scores.
On the plus side it seems whichever one I buy (and I do plan to buy one, maybe this is why it matter so much to me as it's not theoretical for me) should be ok.
The odd thing is that I consider £160 quite reasonable for a motherboard these days (since I bought the Rampage 4 Extreme), but not long ago £160 would've been too expensive to really justify when you can get something as close to it for around £100.
Also, you're a friendly bunch aren't ya!
While I may be having a go at the board I never questioned anyone's knowledge or made it personal. :sad:
Anyway, I'm gonna leave it now before you get really nasty. Besides it's not going to change anything, it's just a differing of opinions that's getting personal.
