Asus maximus viii hero or ranger?

[Edgeset]

What's the best?

 

[nobodynose]

What's the best?

Looking only at objective criteria, I would say the Hero - it supports higher RAM frequencies for overclocking (if you're into that) and it has an extra two SATA ports (from an ASMedia 1061 controller). It costs $15 more at Newegg, $15 less at Amazon (very weird!).

But other than those few differences, they're functionally almost identical.

 

[Edgeset]

Thank you!!

Looking only at objective criteria, I would say the Hero - it supports higher RAM frequencies for overclocking (if you're into that) and it has an extra two SATA ports (from an ASMedia 1061 controller). It costs $15 more at Newegg, $15 less at Amazon (very weird!).

But other than those few differences, they're functionally almost identical.