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welcome to the fourth and final installment of the $1 100ish z97

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motherboard Showdown as you probably know by now we've been adventuring into

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the world of affordable motherboards instead of top tier motherboards which

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are expensive and don't really impact performance anyways we're doing this

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because we want to explore the pros cons and trade-offs of boards that people are

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actually buying in this video we'll be covering the finished system experience

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of each board things like OneTouch overclocking uh utilities and the final

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conclusion will be covered in this video don't forget to stay subscribed for Less

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videos on affordable motherboards in the future since apparently you guys aren't

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that into them

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we'll start off with the fun stuff generally all of the board's various

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overclocking utilities resulted in a 4.4 GHz overclock for the Intel g3258 CPU

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and XMP settings for the gskill rip Jaws 2400s except for the azrock board which

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simply had a selectable profile on the azrock board the 4.7 GHz profile failed

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and 4.6 GHz seemed stable enough but it wasn't really fair as I had to manually

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verify the stability anyways which kind of defeats the purpose of One Touch

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overclocking next up we have the driver downloading experience something that

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might not seem that important in the grand scheme of things but we measured

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it so MSI comes in first at 7.7

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megabytes per second on average with a Seuss as a close runner up at around 6.6

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mbytes per second Gigabyte Trails behind at 2.1 megabytes per second Landing it

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in third place and last and in this case least is azck at 1.3 megabytes per

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second please keep in mind that while we tested all of these one right after the

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other we were unsure of how loaded these companies networks were at the time of

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testing and we downloaded all of these files to our office in western Canada so

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your results will vary so with all those megabytes per second what did I download

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well naturally all the drivers some would expect and some utility software

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as well something you may know if you've perused the software utility section of

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your motherboard's downloads before is that there are tons of them and honestly

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you shouldn't download most of them but whatever you do no matter how many you

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download avoid Network utilities like the plague Windows is actually totally

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fine at handling this on its own and doesn't need additional bloatware to do

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it instead unless you really need

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prioritization for some reason and don't have that feature on your router where

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it belongs if you do want to download any utilities you could go for their

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overclocking fan speed or monitoring software I suggest you use these largely

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just for monitoring however and use your UEFI for actually setting things up if

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you're looking for information on UEFI check out our last video here and also

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please note that that if you do want to overclock in your operating system that

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you'll need the Intel management engine driver installed so it's time for the

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final conclusion obviously if you're looking into buying a motherboard I

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would suggest watching all of the other videos in this series but as a quick

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overview let's look into what really matters first and foremost IO matters

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make sure that you're going to be able to plug in all the peripherals and drives into the board that you will need

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most of these boards will have you covered but it is still an important question to ask yourself then we have

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PCI layout same type of question make sure you can hook up everything that you

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need to and not have any conflicts in terms of positioning another thing to

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note is the comparison of fan headers on your board and fan slots that you'll be

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filling in your case make sure there's enough and make sure that they are in

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the right spot in general case compatibility is important as well if

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your 24 pin connector cable management holes don't line up with the location on

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the board you're going to have a bad time now thanks to Intel moving so many

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things onto their CPUs there is very little difference between boards when it

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comes to Performance and overclocking so this shouldn't be that huge of a factor

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when looking into boards especially in this price range but looking into things

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like if it's running a dual BIOS and or a socketed BIOS setup might not be a bad

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idea and choosing a board with a good software layout for all these biosi

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dials and switches will help a lot

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overall the motherboard landscape especially in this bracket is pretty

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level there is much less of of a difference between boards now than there

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has been in previous years which is great news for folks looking to save a

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few extra bucks so then what's the best for you ASUS was a clear winner in ufi

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and overall usability experience but as rock has a ton of fan headers compared

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to everyone else and was rocking loads of other features like SLI MSI has great

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compatibility like ASUS but a few more physical features than ASUS while still

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having nice things like Rich fan control Gigabyte had a great aesthetic style and

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a great dual BIOS mentation to keep you going along with a variety of other

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features who do you think one let me know in the comments down below or

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to check them out in the link in the video description all right guys thanks

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for hanging with me through this series don't forget to comment down below or on the Forum of which board you think range

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Supreme of their socket Cuisine I don't

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know anyways uh while you're down below here commenting be sure to subscribe if

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