Audio

While both Asus Z87 boards have what I would consider fairly basic onboard audio solutions, the Z87-Pro did have a slightly better audio card with its Realtek 1150 on-board. You can see a slight difference between the two when you look at the Intermodulation distortion + noise results but beyond that they test very close together. My subjective testing resulted in similar results, I couldn’t tell at the time the difference between ether audio card. The MSI board that is also listed here also had a mediocre audio card but they did slip in a headphone amp as well, nether of the Asus boards have anything like this. Being mainstream boards, the onboard audio wasn’t the top priority.