« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2013, 08:23:17 pm »
My current board has an issue where the SATA II ports have stopped working as its an early GA-P67A-UD4. Therefore as I need more than my current 2 working SATA III ports I need a new motherboard of a comparable level of the UD4. These are the two options I'm currently looking at
1) My current GA-P67A-UD4 board but with B3 stepping
2) a new Z77X-D3H
The board will be used for minor overclocking of an i5 2500k for gaming. Thanks
You would better off going with the GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 with that CPU. The sandy bridge doesn't play well with the Z77 boards.
If you going to a Z77 get a Ivory bridge CPU. This Ivory CPU supports 3.0 video cards where the sandy doesn't.
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