ASUS Z87 Motherboards - Overview, Guides and Official Support

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With how I test, noise and interference as well as interchannel leakage is about 100x better(literally) on the HERO vs EX6, and HERO is better at audio reproduction, too. The EX6 is a few dB louder.

I haven't used the HERO too much, honestly, just while doing the review, so a couple of weeks. I definitely notice the difference between the two, but I'm kinda picky about sound..not in an audiophile way, but as a musician. So what's good to me, might not exactly be what you are looking for...but I can say that the noise difference(one of the main things I noticed) is HUGE.

OK, that's good =) Didn't expect much about ppl able to comment on audio here as A) this is XtremeSystems and B) Realtek onboard audio is usually sneezed at xD Would be cool to know for certain if GENE and HERO have pretty similar results or if one or the other is better in this regard. At least ASUS says GENE has 115dB SNR... equally high as Extreme6 so they should be roughly equally loud before distortion kicks in or the noise floor is lower, it doesn't say for HERO, usually doesn't say means it's usually not as good (doesn't have to be like that but often is...)

And no I don't mean higher SNR rating automaticly would mean less noise or better quality but I'm interested in if there's ANY difference (opamp or caps or whatever) between HERO and GENE which differing specs could probably reveal. Then I could dig up more info on those components to know what should at least theoretically have less noise looking at the paper specs...