Any other decent mATX board besides the Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z?

[lsquare]

I'm looking for a good value mATX board to use with the Intel Core i5 2500K. I know that the Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z is a good board, but it's pretty expensive. Are there cheaper, but still decent solution for overclocking the 2500K? I also intend to install 16GB of RAM on the board so it can't be picky with all the DIMM slots populated!

Thanks!

[Rekognize]

Yea the choice among decent 1155 mATX boards is very limited. I've seen the ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z on sale for around $170, so if you can get it at that price it really is the best option I think.

After that your options drop off dramatically, but the MSI Z68MA-ED55 (B3) looks to be the next best choice and comes in around $30 less than the ASUS board.

[gingerbee]

Hell shop around and wait for sales i paid 150 for mine on sale and its much better at overclocking then my sabertooth my 2 cents

[JJThomp]

I have a gigabyte z68MA-D2h with 16gb of ram and it is great

[lsquare]

Originally Posted by gingerbee

Hell shop around and wait for sales i paid 150 for mine on sale and its much better at overclocking then my sabertooth my 2 cents

How often does it go on sale?

[Luay79]

If you call the Maximus IV Gene-Z decent, the I don't have a decent word for the cheaper mATX boards in my vocab. That board outperforms more expensive ATX boards.

[MARSTG]

i see that GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 is pretty popular on newegg. also has VRM cooling and 3 slots PCIex 16 in uatx format

[keto]

Originally Posted by MARSTG

i see that GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 is pretty popular on newegg. also has VRM cooling and 3 slots PCIex 16 in uatx format

But the bios options are very limited on this one. For serious overclocking, give it a pass.

[lsquare]

Originally Posted by keto

But the bios options are very limited on this one. For serious overclocking, give it a pass.

How is it limited relative to the competition?

[keto]

I don't remember all the specifics...I'm pretty sure you cannot manually select your vcore, as a starting point. Bios will still make a calculation and raise your vcore if you put in a higher cpu multiplier - meh. No memory timings. Things an overclocker wants, in other words.