The best Z77 Micro-ATX board?

[Guerrilladawg]

Simple question.

The Asus Gene V was great, but nobody sells that anymore.

My local stores sell the Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3 for $99.

Need one for my Bitfenix Prodigy M build. Has to fit a CM 212 Evo.

 

[lehtv]

Z87M Extreme4

EDIT: Right. Z77. The G1 Sniper is only 6 phase CPU but it has some Creative Audio codec which is probably better than a Realtek. $100 seems like a good price for that board... but can't really say much else without knowing exactly what you need from a motherboard. You overclock, and how much? Do you need SLI compatibility, or any other feature not found in all boards?

 

[Guerrilladawg]

Z87M Extreme4

EDIT: Right. Z77. The G1 Sniper is only 6 phase CPU but it has some Creative Audio codec which is probably better than a Realtek. $100 seems like a good price for that board... but can't really say much else without knowing exactly what you need from a motherboard. You overclock, and how much? Do you need SLI compatibility, or any other feature not found in all boards?

No SLI. I always use a single GPU.

I'd need 4Ghz OC from my i5 3570K.

I did hear SATA and USB 3.0 drive performance might be underwhelming. (Techpowerup review) Will this affect SSD's? I have one Samsung 840 EVO 250GB