Which LGA 1150 motherboard to choose?

leaf68

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I've been looking into building a gaming PC and I chose this Haswell Core i7 processor and I'm looking for motherboards that support it. I've narrowed down a search on Newegg to about 60 motherboards (here if you want to see it) but I'm new to custom PCs so I don't really know what to narrow down next. Here are some minimum things I'd like the motherboard to support:
-2 Hard Drives/SSD (total of 1-2 TB if matters)
-1 Optical Drive
-3 Monitors (I have 2 VGA/DVI monitors and 1 HDMI)
-Good graphics card (probably NVidia if it matters)
-Probably 4 or more USB ports
-16GB or more DDR3 RAM

And I want them to be the best available for 100$-250$, but I'm not sure what to look for next, so any help would be greatly appreciated :)
 
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The Asus Sabertooth z87 is a pretty good motherboard, the Asus Pro and Expert are also good, the monitors would plug into the graphics card, and honestly, the motherboard although important, normally doesn't really affect performance.

caxino18

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The Asus Sabertooth z87 is a pretty good motherboard, the Asus Pro and Expert are also good, the monitors would plug into the graphics card, and honestly, the motherboard although important, normally doesn't really affect performance.
 
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leaf68

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Thanks, I went with this one based on your suggestion and it seems to be just what I was looking for :)

But one more question, do you think this graphics card goes well with the processor and mobo?

 

caxino18

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Yes, it would go great with the mobo and processor