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So I had been under the impression that going with any board other than gigabyte wasn't really worth the hassle. I believe this is/was due to compatibility of the bios/UEFIBios. I heard mentioned recently that ASUS boards are now pretty much just as easy.
I just helped a friend with a build taken pretty much directly from the cutomac pro buyer's guide for march '14. We still have some issues but I'm working on them (iGFX HDMI does a weird snow in the middle of boot, and 5GHz on the TP-Link card isn't working OOB). This does seem to be working well though.
I am wondering though if there is anything in particular about newer ASUS boards that I should know about that might sway me in that direction? I think I read in Toleda's mini-pcie wifi guide that some ASUS boards had wifi+bluetooth 4.0 working OOB but I could have misread.
I was hoping for a 10-12 core solution with thunderbolt 2 but I can see that that isn't likely to happen in the timeframe that I want to build my machine. So I'm likely going to go the 4770k route. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
Nathan
I just helped a friend with a build taken pretty much directly from the cutomac pro buyer's guide for march '14. We still have some issues but I'm working on them (iGFX HDMI does a weird snow in the middle of boot, and 5GHz on the TP-Link card isn't working OOB). This does seem to be working well though.
I am wondering though if there is anything in particular about newer ASUS boards that I should know about that might sway me in that direction? I think I read in Toleda's mini-pcie wifi guide that some ASUS boards had wifi+bluetooth 4.0 working OOB but I could have misread.
I was hoping for a 10-12 core solution with thunderbolt 2 but I can see that that isn't likely to happen in the timeframe that I want to build my machine. So I'm likely going to go the 4770k route. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
Nathan