Building a new PC: Which motherboard to choose? Please help.

[sbab123]

Hi guys,

I am building a new PC from scratch for personal use at home and I would like to get some advice here from the experts in hardware. I want to use an Intel Core i5 4460 with 8GB RAM initially. Later on, I want to expand to 32GB RAM. According to my budget, I can afford only one of the following motherboards:

MSI B85M-E45
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AS-B85M-G
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MSI Z87-G41
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MSI H97 PCMATE
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Could you please advice which one is the best? Based on your rich experience in hardware... I am hesitating and I am thinking that the ASUS may be the better motherboard than MSI, but I am not sure.

Thanks for reading

Regards

 

[DonkeyOatie]

From limited experience and reports from users, the low-end MSI boards are a bit light and 'fragile'. They have decent features at the expense of robustness. Accordingly, I would recommend that ASUS board from those four.

 

[Mac070]

Agreed ^