Which Asus Mother board

[magicc8ball]

So as of late I am in a debate and I cannot decide what Asus Z77 mobo I want to go with either the Asus Saber tooth or the Asus P8Z77 Deluxe.

I like the sabertooth aesthetics, Thermal monitor(which is only a saber tooth software), 5 year warranty, the high end parts, and the ability to mod the voltage the board is pushing to say the onboard gpu(I forget what the technology is called but it is a saber tooth exclusive as well). Things that I feel are missing are the diagnostic number screen, on board on and off button, ssd caching

What I like with the P8z77 Deluxe is it has the on board power button, the diagnostic screen, the aesthetics are nice but the saber tooth is better, the secondary raid controller so that it may support ssd caching when using the other 2 for a raid. What it is missing is the Thermal monitor, and it would be bad ass to have a thermal cover on the board.

My build is going to be white, black and blue so either board would do fine. Currently I will be running 2 120 gig ssd raid and was thinking that I would be getting a sata 3 hdd and get another ssd to do ssd caching. Problem is that I will not be able to do it on the saber tooth. Which I have been telling my self that I want the saber tooth since I found out about it. I of course will be overclocking my system.

I have came to you all to help me way out the pluses and minuses to each board. So please tell me what you think about different boards.

 

[S_I_N]

GA Z77X UD5 bro Asus has left alot lacking of late specially when it comes to RMA's seems they are not properly repairing things before returning forcing another RMA. This or the Asrock Z77 Professional/Extreme those are the 2 I am currently debating

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Get the one with the AGP slot.

Something like this:

 

[magicc8ball]

no one else?

 

[PetrolHead247]

If you're going Asus and your build will have a white, black and blue the deluxe is a great choice, and the Sabertooth too. You could look at other brands too, the MSI Z77 GD65 (or GD80 when it's released), the Gigabyte Z77 UD5 and ASRock Z77 Extreme 6 are all great choices too. I'd say go for the one that fits your needs best and has a good price tag too

 

[Nelly]

If Asus had good RMA in the UK I would of gone for the[font="Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans"] Asus P8Z77 Deluxe.[/font]

 

[wilton84]

tbh im waiting for the z77 maximus extream or i was thing of the evga z77 ftw for my build as i want e atx. but have to say if your not going sli or xfire the maximus gene if good iv got a 4 next to me now and its severy me well only reason i want to swap is the spacing for sli/xfire as one card was getting a bit hot. also the saber dose look a lovley bord from what iv read

 

[8 Pack]

ASUS Maximus V gene is a great board. Very stable clocks Sandy and Ivy very well and DRAM like an absolute beast!!!!