Which z77 Gigabyte board should I go for?

[Mutoscope]

hey Overclockers-
I'm looking to make a new build as soon as I get the money and I've been checking out some motherboards. Ive been looking at some gigabyte ones I want to know if the more expensive one will be worth the money.


Gigabyte D3H for a £100
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA...rboard/dp/B007KZQFEI/ref=cm_lmf_tit_3_rsrssi0

Gigabyte DS3H for £70
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA...QFOS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343043585&sr=8-1

Is the first one worth the extra £30 or shall I stick with the cheaper model. I am planning on overclocking the cpu and the gpu.

 

[MattNo5ss]

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The downside to the DS3H for overclocking is that it doesn't have heatsinks on the power section, and it's good to keep it cool when pushing extra voltage into them.

What other components are you planning to get and what will you use the PC for?

 

[DaveB]

I can recommend the micro-ATX Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H which I paired with an i5 3750K running at 4.5 GHz. It’s a nice board for a budget build if you need SLI capability in a small, inexpensive package. I’m running it with dual GTX 460s in SLI and 16GB of Kingston DDR3-1600 RAM. While it doesn’t have the heatsinks on the VRMs, it runs nice and stable at 4.5 GHz.

It's a nice inexpensive mATX board with the normal overclocking settings, if you'd consider a downsized mobo. They did a review of it at Anand's a while back.

 

[xander89]

i sound like a broken record but an Asrock extreme 4 if you can afford the extra £10 . best board around that price i would say

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Z77-Extreme...Y4A6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343227193&sr=8-1