need new motherboard

[chaos]

Ok..I believe my ECS Hydra board has taken a crap(system just started powercycling without anything coming up on the screen-already tried a different psu--same thing-guess that why folks don't get ECS)..Trying to keep with my black/white theme for the system... Looking at these boards...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128506
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128498
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135336 -probably wont go the ECS route again-but I like the color scheme
Only thing with the biostar boards is that I've read some reviews about them getting in a 'rebootting loop' ..Would lke to stay around $150
(shoulsve bought the open box sabertooth for $165 when newegg had it)..

 

[Bobnova]

The Extreme4 is an easy price winner. It's a solid board in general too.

 

[Ajay57]

Well OP you could do a lot worse for yourself than take time to look at this review from OCF! And buy the Extreme 4 or 6 Mobo, if i was to make a choice here it would be the 6 with the much higher grade componants. I.E. Japanese Gold VRM Caps and a up graded VRM Section comes in handy when overclocking. AJ.

1, http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=722124&highlight=asrock+extreme+review

2, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157295

And overall you are still under Budget!!

 

[chaos]

Whats up with the Gigabyte boards? Noone has said anything about them...

 

[Mjolnir]

Z77X-UD3H is a great board too. Its just the Asrock extreme 4/6 for the price feature wise is hard to beat!

The UD3H is also more expensive. I wouldn't buy z68 anymore though tbh.

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The d3h model. Another good option.