I can't help but notice that the new Gene VII has only 7 capacitors on the new separate audio riser card, compared with over twice that many on the previous generation's Gene VI motherboard, even though both use the same ALC1150 codec. Also, it has ...

I'm researching a new build and am considering the Z87 Gene or Impact. But a couple of reviews of the Gene show some low benchmarks that seem too low for such a high performance MB. Specifically, a couple of SiSoft Sandra memory bandwidth tests (Ge...