Need new Z97 Motherboard

steveb531

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Feb 6, 2014
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Need a Z97 motherboard for the system below. As i failed to mention in a previous post, i will have a windowed case with green LED fans, and clashing colours will bug the hell out of me, so i want to avoid boards with said colours. A green and black theme would be ideal if there is a decent one out there but a plain board like the ASUS variants will do nicely too or just a plain black. Im hoping to keep it under £100 and would only really stretch that for a something quite outstanding for the money... in green.
Im quite terrible with motherboards so have no idea what to look for. Suggestions?

Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R (Windowed)
CPU: Intel i7 4790K (May Overclock)
Motherboard: ?
GPU: MSI Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 (Potentially 2 if I decide I want more power) (Overclocked)
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance (2 X 8GB)
Storage: 1TB Sata HDD & 250GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750W B1 Bronze 80

Cheers.
 

endeavour37a

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The ASUS Hero VII is an amazing board worth the extra money, just my thoughts. You could save a bit with a Crucial MX100 256GB SSD, they are very good drives, and perhaps start off with a 980 to put off the SLI for later down the road....
 
My recommendation would be same as Gam3r01, couldn't find any other on PPP :lol:
Also, Z97-A is Black and Gold, if that matches your rig, sorry not so good with matching themes.

Also, if you will have water cooling then nevermind, but if you want air coolers, then avoid the Vengeance series, they have tall heatspreaders which obstruct in cooler installation, G.SKill or Crucial are lower in profile, so is Corsair Veng LP or Pro.

EVGA B2 is higher quality than B1.