Actually, might look at the Hero, it's prob right between pricewise, that's the one I picked up, the Z87 and Z97 Heros were the best mobos for those chipsets, and thus far the Hero is Great, just got my DRAM yesrterday (32GB od Trident Z in 3200) have been doing a little playing with a 16GB set of Ripjaws V and some different GPUs and CPU coolers but will get a bit more serious with it this weekend