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Old October 6, 2011, 10:54 AM
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Check out the ASRock Extreme 3. Seems to be excellent motherboard for $160.
Where did you hear that?

That board has numerous issues from BIOS problems to software BSODs.


Personally, my vote goes to the ASUS board. Their Z68 BIOS maturity is at least two generations ahead of Gigabyte, MSI, etc. and their features are (almost) second to none.
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Old October 6, 2011, 01:33 PM
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Is there not a revision of the p8z68-v that includes PCI-E 3.0? I think it's called gen3 or something.
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How about the gigabyte ga-z68xp-ud3p? Same price as asus p8z68-v. I also see that gigabyte has better review than asus mobo. What do you think guys? Arghhh. Cant decide. This is hard than building your pc.
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Is there not a revision of the p8z68-v that includes PCI-E 3.0? I think it's called gen3 or something.
The new GEN3's are coming out with PCIE 3.

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How about the gigabyte ga-z68xp-ud3p? Same price as asus p8z68-v. I also see that gigabyte has better review than asus mobo. What do you think guys? Arghhh. Cant decide. This is hard than building your pc.
After doing a ton of researching, I chose the -V and I am more than happy with it. The Gigabyte is still a good board just no UEFI.
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Where did you hear that?

That board has numerous issues from BIOS problems to software BSODs.
I haven't seen or read of any bad news regarding the ASRock Extreme 3 Gen 3 or whatever the naming is lol.
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How about the gigabyte ga-z68xp-ud3p? Same price as asus p8z68-v. I also see that gigabyte has better review than asus mobo. What do you think guys? Arghhh. Cant decide. This is hard than building your pc.
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The new GEN3's are coming out with PCIE 3.




After doing a ton of researching, I chose the -V and I am more than happy with it. The Gigabyte is still a good board just no UEFI.
pci-e 3.0 is a gimmic


gigabyte boards dont compare to asus boards this round
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I haven't seen or read of any bad news regarding the ASRock Extreme 3 Gen 3 or whatever the naming is lol.
Ditto. I read of more issues with the more recent Asus boards. Tons of posts of having problems with the Asus P8Z68 boards.
Decent reports of the Asrock:
ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 - Who has it? - AnandTech Forums
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