ASUS Maximus IX Hero Z270 is on sale for $215 right now on newegg.  I'm happy with it, but it hasn't been a month yet. MSI Gaming M7 Z270 looks nice and had good onboard audio too.
 
I wonder if prices will drop after March 2nd when AMD new CPU is released.

MSim
ASUS Maximus IX Hero Z270 is on sale for $215 right now on newegg.  I'm happy with it, but it hasn't been a month yet. MSI Gaming M7 Z270 looks nice and had good onboard audio too.
 
I wonder if prices will drop after March 2nd when AMD new CPU is released.

All the Z270 boards are still new, A bit afraid of buying new tech since some problems happen after a few months but I also kinda don't want to pay the same price for Z170.
But no complaints with your Hero so far? 

I'll take a look at the MSI one too! Thanks! I noticed the Hero went on sale too, It went on sale maybe a day after I was looking at it. Although only $15 :(

Sajin
I'd say give gigabyte a try. I'm currently using a gigabyte board without any issues.

Which Gigabyte board are you using? I know they make good boards, but from what i've heard it either works beautifully or it has some problems :( 
Knowing with my terrible luck with components, I really want to get a reliable working board out of the box. I even got a faulty ASUS somehow 

Ah gotcha I see! X99 chipset.

You own multiple computers right...? Are you using all Gigabyte boards? 

Gotcha I see. I'll take another look at Gigabyte then.

But i'm probably choosing between the ASUS Maximus IX Hero, MSI Z270 Gaming M7 or possibly one of the Gigabyte AORUS boards around the 200-250 mark.
You'd choose the Gigabyte out of the 3?

Id say those 3 would be the ones I'm choosing from exactly, It seems like ASUS has a better reputation and they have better/ more features. Motherboard is always the hardest part to pick.

I heard about the Gigabyte giving too much CPU voltage, I was talking with a guy about this earlier today. He said that apparently Gigabyte fixed those issues right before launch.

With the ASUS I was actually hearing people having problems with the audio drivers not installing properly or something of that sort. But Windows 10 forcing an older lan driver to install, does that happen to everyone? Can you override it somehow or something? Or does it really not affect performance much and it doesn't matter?

And as to my motherboard, yes I've updated BIOS already. I've reinstalled the OS a few times as well. Just running into some strange nonsensical problems. 
But i've been discussing this with a few people on facebook for the past two months or so, we're essentially reaching the conclusion at this point that the board is likely faulty if the other components are fine.
But some of the issues include:
-Fastboot not working when XMP is turned on, shutdown's get logged as an improper shutdown and says fastboot did not work. Results in slow boots/ shutdowns. 
-Yesterday, got a freeze in BIOS when I was configuring fan curve, had to use Ctrl Alt Del to reboot.
-Today reinstalling OS (I've done it a few times already) after finishing installation, it prompted a restart. For whatever reason it just turned off the screen, screen lost connection. Had to force shut down. Tried reinstalling, had to try a few times to get into setup. First few times restarting the computer with install media plugged in, pressing Del, wouldn't get me into BIOS, shows black screen. After trying a few times I got into BIOS, changed boot order, save and continue, black screen. 
That was the main weird thing, I've reinstalled the OS a bunch of times, I know how to do it. It was a new install media on a formatted USB too.
-Reinstalling GPU drivers causes Battlefield 1 to essentially malfunction. After reinstalling, upgrading or downgrading i'll get a severely increased CPU usage, which causes a bottleneck and in turn causes decreases in GPU usage. Game runs fine up until the point where DDU is used to clean drivers and reinstall. No clue why it does that, it's done that on a 1070 FTW and a 1080 FTW, definitely not the GPU. Done it through clean installs too.

And just some other weird problems, don't make much sense. 

MSim
If you look hard enough, you can find issues or complaints from customers on any Z270 mobo.

+1
 

Wooohah
Gotcha I see. I'll take another look at Gigabyte then.

But i'm probably choosing between the ASUS Maximus IX Hero, MSI Z270 Gaming M7 or possibly one of the Gigabyte AORUS boards around the 200-250 mark.
You'd choose the Gigabyte out of the 3?

If I were building a z270 system I might choose the gigabyte board since I've had no issues with mine.