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AJR
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Any suggestions for a blue motherboard that'll match Corsair's blue LED fans? Was looking at an Asrock z97 but many have said Asrock isn't a good company. LGA1150 for my i5 4670k. This'll be going in a Corsair 450d.

 

Will be doing some Slight Overclocking, using two RAM slots, and an AIO Watercooler. ATX Sized Boards only. Also, would an i5 4670k bottleneck 2xASUS Strix GTX 970's in SLI?

 

Budget for Motherboard: Around $200

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You can pick whatever you like and then paint it.... xD   The Linus way

^This

 

or some of MSI's boards

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MSI boards have lots of blue options, and their quality is really good. :)

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MSI G55 SLI or Z97s SLI Plus 

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ASRock used to be bad, but they've caught up recently. AFAIK, unless it's something like a Pegatron or other OEM crap motherboards have the same failure rates. Blue sort of went "out" a while ago because everyone thinks red and black is faster or something.

If I recall correctly, MSI has a couple blue Z97 boards. I use an MSI in my own system, it works fine but the BIOS can be kinda confusing at times.

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Gigabyte makes blue motherboards

for z97? I haven't seen any

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Alright guys, I picked up some spray paint. Ready to spray a Rampage V Extreme like Linus. All I've got is scotch tape, wish me luck.

 

On a serious note, would this: http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Motherboard-Motherboards-B85-G41-MATE/dp/B00D12OASW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1422417657&sr=8-4&keywords=MSI+Motherboard be good for a 2x SLI, And CPU overclock? 

 

This?: http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Motherboards-Z97S-SLI-PLUS/dp/B00K23BY6O/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1422417657&sr=8-15&keywords=MSI+Motherboard

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Alright guys, I picked up some spray paint. Ready to spray a Rampage V Extreme like Linus. All I've got is scotch tape, wish me luck.

are you serious?!

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