New Ivy Build: Which of these Gigabyte Boards?

Slacker7

Slacker7

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I have socket939 system that has served me well but after 6+ years it is time for a new build. This is for both work as well as personal usage.

I need to order the parts by the end of this week and I have narrowed down the motherboard to one of the three Gigabyte options. Yes, I know there are higher end enthusiast boards but if I overclock it will be a very conservative overclock thus I don't need all the bells and whistles; just a solid build quality as well as reliability.

I have built systems and though I keep up with tech it is only recently that I have researched the Z77 motherboards in greater depth. Any help/advice will be most appreciated.


* Gaming, Word Office, some Video Rendering, along with email and internet surfing will be its primary functions. I'll be running a single video card. Since my budget is limited I've selected the following to consider:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128547

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128543

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128546

Thanks.
 
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Just as an update I went with a Gigabyte z77X-UD3H because Micro Center had this fantastic deal that if you purchased an i5-3750 @ $190 then this board could be had for $110. I also purchased 8 gigs of RAM for $40 (ten off the standard price).

I shop at NewEgg all the time but the Egg's price would have cost me a $120 more for these three items.

Thanks for all your input.
 
hey slacker, I cannot find a way to send you a message :0 I hope you read this. But the problem with my motherboard is when it was first launched it came with Bios F3. Which was a very very bad bios that made everyones new build crash every couple minute to couple hours. It was annoying as hell, mostly because I was trying to solve my problem, switched out my HD, memory, etc, but in the end found out it was bad bios.

Anyway I updated the bios to Bios f7, big update for me since I never looked to updating my motherboard, now it works perfectly fine.
 
pastelsoda said:
hey slacker, I cannot find a way to send you a message
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That's because you cannot send PMs until you have reached 100 posts...

It doesn't matter which of those boards you get, I'd update the BIOS anyway.
 
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