Torn between these 3 motherboards, wat do?

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I'm in the market for an LG1150 motherboard but i don't really need anything fancy as I'd rather put my money more on GPU and CPU, so I've narrowed down my choice of motherboards to 4 and they happen to be ;

ASrock H81M-VG4
ASRock H81M-DGS
ASRock h81m-GL
ASRock H81M-HDS

They all cost pretty much the same save for a few dollars of difference

Which should i go for?

My configuration :
Intel g3258 (might upgrade to i5 4670k when i have the $$$$$)
Geforce gtx 660 ti
Corsair vengeance blue 1600mhz 4gb (will buy another one of
these later so I'll have 8gb of ram)
Corsair cx500m

Thanks in advance
 
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The H81M-GL is meant to provide for older legacy hardware (I'm assuming this is where the GL) comes from), as I'm sure you can see by the parallel port that very few people still have a use for. Unless you specifically need something offered by this board, I'd look elsewhere.

Of the remaining three, the HDS and DGS both appear to be more robust and offer more I/O connectivity than the VG4, which looks to be very little board for the money unfortunately. It might just be purpose-built for cases that will only work with narrow mATX boards, but I haven't seen very many of those in the first place, and I can't really confirm that... it's definitely physically smaller than the HDS and DGS models.

Between the HDS and DGS, I'm using...
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The H81M-GL is meant to provide for older legacy hardware (I'm assuming this is where the GL) comes from), as I'm sure you can see by the parallel port that very few people still have a use for. Unless you specifically need something offered by this board, I'd look elsewhere.

Of the remaining three, the HDS and DGS both appear to be more robust and offer more I/O connectivity than the VG4, which looks to be very little board for the money unfortunately. It might just be purpose-built for cases that will only work with narrow mATX boards, but I haven't seen very many of those in the first place, and I can't really confirm that... it's definitely physically smaller than the HDS and DGS models.

Between the HDS and DGS, I'm using this to compare them:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/compare.asp?SelectedModel=H81M-HDS&SelectedModel=H81M-DGS+R2.0
Of those two, the HDS has a bit more connectivity, both internal and on the rear panel, and is probably the one that I'd go for out of those four boards.

Hope that helps a bit!

Oh, and just a note - I'd consider going with a power supply other than the Corsair CX series; I'm not sure if this is still happening, but there for a while they were having trouble caused by low-quality capacitors. EVGA makes an excellent 500W power supply that's relatively inexpensive. Also, the price on Corsair's Vengeance tends to be a bit inflated... unless you specifically like the design of their heatspreaders, you can shave a few dollars off and actually have faster memory by going with something from G.Skill:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231720&cm_re=g.skill-_-20-231-720-_-Product
...They also have a DDR3-1600 version of that for $1 less, and G.Skill is the highest rated memory manufacturer on NewEgg for good reason. Never had a single problem with anything I've owned from them. Just a suggestion - take it for what it's worth!
 
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