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Intel Z97 Express: Five Enthusiast Motherboards, £115 to £130
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Lower graphics quality levels are usually restricted by either the CPU or DRAM, and higher detail levels are typically limited by GPU performance. That might not be true with a card as powerful as the Radeon R9 290X, however.

MSI enjoys an unexpected lead in the lower settings of Arma 3 and Far Cry 3, so we went back into the firmware to check for Turbo Boost ratio enhancements. That menu isn’t even present when using a locked processor, however, and we weren’t using any settings that might have enabled it.

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    Putolev , 14 May 2014 09:28
    Sorry to say but this "review" didn't bring anything worthwile to me at all. If you take a certain price range and compare the products found there, they ought to be quite similar, right? Well then there's no surprise if no great differences are to be found. Like the reviewer stated, the features make the difference between like the great deal with Gamecaster (which has no value to me at all).
    What I found lacking is the reviewing of those features like software (audio, fan control etc.), VRM quality, "other stuff".
    Now what is this "other stuff" really? Which motherboard has the best "other stuff"? I didn't get it from the review.
    Apart from the very simple introduction to the software and hardware, I can't really make what's better between Gigabyte and MSI, the one's I'm interested in. MSI has better UEFI, I understood but how is the software? How many VRM phases and their quality? Is MSI's audio suite better than GB's?
    These are what make the products apart in the same price range but finding the value leader with good explanations for why was not possible from this article despite it's title.