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Z87-G45 OR Z87-GD65

Anthony Frandi

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what's the differences between these 2 mobos? which should i choose and why???
 
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The GD65 is black, as opposed to brown, a visual choice.
The GD65 has more VRMs, which means more power phases, which gives you better over clocking ability.
The GD65 has 2 more Sata ports.
The GD65 also has more on-board(oh yes the pun) overclocking tools. A debug LED and onboard OC button, voltmeter measure points, and an onboard power button(good for benching).

Really the only reason to get the GD65 is if you are overclocking/trying to get the best performance you can.
Otherwise, the G45 would serve a normal user perfectly fine/
 
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so G45 is better for normal use and gd65 is for overclocking???
 
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Exactly.
 
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Anthony Frandi said:
so G45 is better for normal use and gd65 is for overclocking???
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Haswell pulls low(by cpu standards) currents through the VRM therefore the VRM doesn't matter when overclocking so when picking a board you should be looking at onboard sound/fan header count and control/USB3.0 count/SATA port count/ethernet controller/wifi module/bluetooth.
 
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buildzoid said:
Haswell pulls low(by cpu standards) currents through the VRM therefore the VRM doesn't matter when overclocking so when picking a board you should be looking at onboard sound/fan header count and control/USB3.0 count/SATA port count/ethernet controller/wifi module/bluetooth.
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Of Which both of them have the same, except the GD65 has 2 extra SATA ports.
 
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GD65 more powerful
 
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