I recently got my first ASrock motherboard (z97 extreme9) and well I love it (just wish it was not blue). My

GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming G1 WIFI-BK started to die on me and I needed something to hold me over till it was fixxed.



Its funny cause I paid like 400.00 for the G1 back when it came out ... the extreme9 only cost 189.99 and it has so much more on it vs the G1.



G1 ... No M.2 slots at all. Extreme 9 .. has 2x One is A PCIe 3.0 x4 and one is A Sata 3. Winner Extreme9



G1 .. Comes with A PCI slot Wifi card ... (takes Up slot) Extreme 9 has A 1 mini-PCIe slot and holes in IO for antina ... Have too buy A wifi card but it dont take up a PCI slot and block airflow Winner Extreme9



Both have PLX chips TIE



Onboard Sound G1 has C.L Soundcore chip ... Asrock realtek ..... Winner G1 .... However the sound died about 5 months after I had it and end up having too use my CL Sound Blaster Zx (then their were more issues)



But thats Just on z97boards ... Look at X99 and Skylakeboards ... Hell look at x79boards ... Asrock really gives you more and they are adding and pushing what can be on boards ... I am still impressed at the X79 extreme11 and the X99 extreme 11 ..... Cant wait too see what is on the Z170 Skylake Extreme 11.

Posted on Nov 4th 2015, 23:59 Reply