Some motherboard advice?

[GIBSON]

Hi all,

I've been looking into putting a new system together and am a bit uncertain as to which motherboard to get. Currently these are looking interesting:

*Asus P8Z68-V PRO
*Asrock Z68 Extreme4
*Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
*MSI Z68A-GD65

any recommendations/comments/..?
(doesn't need to be from the above list btw)

[Blacksmith1]

*cough*darkside*cough* I'm not qualified to advize you on Intel Boards. I've been doing the AMD fan dance too long.

[PP Mguire]

Really it all depends on what features you want, then go for the board that supplies them all. I've been looking at the Gigglebyte ud4 and eVGA P67 for quite some time now myself.

[Dragon]

out of your choices the asus will give you the most features.

[Joshua_Mahr]

If you plan on running a SSD for you main drive I would look into the P67 boards. However if you want a cheap 30GB ssd to do the Intel Rapid thingy stick with the Z68. Like Dragon said Asus will give you nice features for the money. Gigabyte can to. I have Used all 3 Makers and ASROCK was the easiest to set up. Asus had the most features and solid power. Giga is great and has never let me down. MSI i cant really say I have not used their products in years. If you give us a better idea of what you want to do with the system we could give more helpful input.

[PP Mguire]

My latest experiences with MSI where great. Those where all AMD boards though.

[GIBSON]

If you plan on running a SSD for you main drive I would look into the P67 boards. However if you want a cheap 30GB ssd to do the Intel Rapid thingy stick with the Z68. Like Dragon said Asus will give you nice features for the money. Gigabyte can to. I have Used all 3 Makers and ASROCK was the easiest to set up. Asus had the most features and solid power. Giga is great and has never let me down. MSI i cant really say I have not used their products in years. If you give us a better idea of what you want to do with the system we could give more helpful input.

Why would P67 offer an advantage over Z68 in that area? (Please do fill me in if I've overlooked something there!) I am planning to use an SSD as my primary drive for OS and applications. The intel solution (though not bad for a certain audience) seems a bit half-fast to me
Reason I went for Z68 was for the ability to use the integrated GPU for processing purposes (quicksync), though I'm obviously going to use discrete graphics most of the time. A second reason would be that it's simply a newer chipset

Currently the asus board is looking most favorable, followed by the asrock one. Thanks for all the replies btw!