welcome to the fourth and final installment of the $1 100ish z97
motherboard Showdown as you probably know by now we've been adventuring into
the world of affordable motherboards instead of top tier motherboards which
are expensive and don't really impact performance anyways we're doing this
because we want to explore the pros cons and trade-offs of boards that people are
actually buying in this video we'll be covering the finished system experience
of each board things like OneTouch overclocking uh utilities and the final
conclusion will be covered in this video don't forget to stay subscribed for Less
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we'll start off with the fun stuff generally all of the board's various
overclocking utilities resulted in a 4.4 GHz overclock for the Intel g3258 CPU
and XMP settings for the gskill rip Jaws 2400s except for the azrock board which
simply had a selectable profile on the azrock board the 4.7 GHz profile failed
and 4.6 GHz seemed stable enough but it wasn't really fair as I had to manually
verify the stability anyways which kind of defeats the purpose of One Touch
overclocking next up we have the driver downloading experience something that
might not seem that important in the grand scheme of things but we measured
it so MSI comes in first at 7.7
megabytes per second on average with a Seuss as a close runner up at around 6.6
mbytes per second Gigabyte Trails behind at 2.1 megabytes per second Landing it
in third place and last and in this case least is azck at 1.3 megabytes per
second please keep in mind that while we tested all of these one right after the
other we were unsure of how loaded these companies networks were at the time of
testing and we downloaded all of these files to our office in western Canada so
your results will vary so with all those megabytes per second what did I download
well naturally all the drivers some would expect and some utility software
as well something you may know if you've perused the software utility section of
your motherboard's downloads before is that there are tons of them and honestly
you shouldn't download most of them but whatever you do no matter how many you
download avoid Network utilities like the plague Windows is actually totally
fine at handling this on its own and doesn't need additional bloatware to do
it instead unless you really need
prioritization for some reason and don't have that feature on your router where
it belongs if you do want to download any utilities you could go for their
overclocking fan speed or monitoring software I suggest you use these largely
just for monitoring however and use your UEFI for actually setting things up if
you're looking for information on UEFI check out our last video here and also
please note that that if you do want to overclock in your operating system that
you'll need the Intel management engine driver installed so it's time for the
final conclusion obviously if you're looking into buying a motherboard I
would suggest watching all of the other videos in this series but as a quick
overview let's look into what really matters first and foremost IO matters
make sure that you're going to be able to plug in all the peripherals and drives into the board that you will need
most of these boards will have you covered but it is still an important question to ask yourself then we have
PCI layout same type of question make sure you can hook up everything that you
need to and not have any conflicts in terms of positioning another thing to
note is the comparison of fan headers on your board and fan slots that you'll be
filling in your case make sure there's enough and make sure that they are in
the right spot in general case compatibility is important as well if
your 24 pin connector cable management holes don't line up with the location on
the board you're going to have a bad time now thanks to Intel moving so many
things onto their CPUs there is very little difference between boards when it
comes to Performance and overclocking so this shouldn't be that huge of a factor
when looking into boards especially in this price range but looking into things
like if it's running a dual BIOS and or a socketed BIOS setup might not be a bad
idea and choosing a board with a good software layout for all these biosi
dials and switches will help a lot
overall the motherboard landscape especially in this bracket is pretty
level there is much less of of a difference between boards now than there
has been in previous years which is great news for folks looking to save a
few extra bucks so then what's the best for you ASUS was a clear winner in ufi
and overall usability experience but as rock has a ton of fan headers compared
to everyone else and was rocking loads of other features like SLI MSI has great
compatibility like ASUS but a few more physical features than ASUS while still
having nice things like Rich fan control Gigabyte had a great aesthetic style and
a great dual BIOS mentation to keep you going along with a variety of other
features who do you think one let me know in the comments down below or
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