Good Micro ATX Motherboard for i5 4690k and MSI GeForce GTX 770?

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Going to build my first PC and I've got essentially every part sorted, I'm going for a small case which is why I need a Micro ATX Mobo. My question is, do I need a high end board? I'm hoping to keep the price under £60 to stay within my budget but I'm worried that as I'm going to be overclocking I'll need a board that can handle both that and the GPU. I will also be using 2 4GB sticks of G. Skill Ares RAM but I would like a board that can hold 4 dimms to allow me to upgrade to 16GB in the future should I need to.
At the moment I'm considering the MSI B85M-G43 because it fits my hardware needs, it's quite cheap and it's got good reviews. Can anyone recommend a better board or is this one fine.
Thanks.
 
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you need a Z97 mobo for maximum upgradability and the overclocking ability.!
MSI B85M-G43 can run a haswell refress cpu but will need a bios update before you install it! http://www.msi.com/support/mb/B85MG43.html#support-cpu

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/z4n2bv/by_merchant/
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£78.00 @ More Computers)
Total: £78.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-02 18:59 BST+0100

if overclocking isnt in your plans you dont need the k unlocked version cpu and an H97 will do hust fine!
Price breakdown by merchant...
you need a Z97 mobo for maximum upgradability and the overclocking ability.!
MSI B85M-G43 can run a haswell refress cpu but will need a bios update before you install it! http://www.msi.com/support/mb/B85MG43.html#support-cpu

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/z4n2bv/by_merchant/
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£78.00 @ More Computers)
Total: £78.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-02 18:59 BST+0100

if overclocking isnt in your plans you dont need the k unlocked version cpu and an H97 will do hust fine!
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/BBrYLk/by_merchant/
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£62.36 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £62.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-02 19:22 BST+0100
 
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