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By Guest AakashKcX
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I use the ASRock Extreme4 and love it. It has features on it that are hard to find at the price point, (or at least were) for only £110-£115 it has an awesome colour scheme (Blue with black and grey), non of that gold/yellow crap that Asus and Gigabyte are using. Supports SLI & Crossfire, Decent on-board audio.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z97extreme4

Edit: It also has great overclocking ability with built in profiles. If you don't want to use the profiles, you can manually OC. i managed to get my i5 4690k stable at 4.5GHz 24/7 on 1.21v (although, Overclocks are more dependent on the silicone lottery more than the motherboard now.)

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all of them are good, try to get one that supports sli and crossfire, something like Msi Z97 Krait or Gigabyte Z97 gaming 5 (not the gaming 3, i have it and there is a problem with the two native sata ports, and i also read a comment on amazon, where someone complained about m.2 port not working)

basically they are all good

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Asrock extreme 6! FTW

'FrostNova' - https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Samsterstorm/saved/WtBWGX :

CPU: Intel 4790k | MB: Asrock Z97 Extreme6 | GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming (+200, +250) | CASE: NZXT H440 (Black & Blue) | COOLER: Full EK 240mm CPU Loop | RAM: 16GB Hyper-X Fury (4x4GB @2133mhz) | STORAGE: Seagate Barracuda 1TB & Hyperx 120gb SSD | PSU: Corsair RM650 | SCREEN: Benq G2750 | LIGHTING: Deepcool RGB LED Kit | KEYBOARD: CM Devastator | MOUSE: Logitech G502 | HEADSET: Hyperx Clouds White 

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Gigabyte G7 gaming's real nice. 

Intel 4790 K - R9 295X2 - Gigabyte Z97-SLI - Corsair Vengeance Pro Black 1866 CAL9 - Corsair HX 1000 -Samsung 850 EVO SSD - Samsung HDD - H100I - Corsair C70 - G400 Logitech - Asus VS247H - WASD custom mechanical and QCKPAD! 

Staples of LTT: Getting an 4690 K will resurrect your lost family members, AMD = More heat thus AMD = Satan. 

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Thanks, but i wanted mobos which were under £100

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Thanks, but i wanted mobos which were under £100

Gigabyte Z97 GA-HD3 I would say this is nice cuz it has aat least Crossfire support and costs ~82 pounds

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Plus ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£95.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £95.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-03 23:45 BST+0100

Intel Xeon E5 1650 v3 @ 3.5GHz 6C:12T / CM212 Evo / Asus X99 Deluxe / 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 3000 Trident-Z / Samsung 850 Pro 256GB / Intel 335 240GB / WD Red 2 & 3TB / Antec 850w / RTX 2070 / Win10 Pro x64

HP Envy X360 15: Intel Core i5 8250U @ 1.6GHz 4C:8T / 8GB DDR4 / Intel UHD620 + Nvidia GeForce MX150 4GB / Intel 120GB SSD / Win10 Pro x64

 

HP Envy x360 BP series Intel 8th gen

AMD ThreadRipper 2!

5820K & 6800K 3-way SLI mobo support list

 

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Very happy with my Asus VII Ranger 

CPU: Intel i7 4930k 5Ghz - RAM: GSkill Trident X 2400Mhz - MOBO: Asus Rampage IV Extreme Black Edition  - GPU: Asus Strix 1080ti OC 2067Mhz - PSU: Corsair AX1200i - Case: Coolermaster C700P - 

Cooling: Corsair H100i with 2 ML120s & 4 HD140s

 

 SSDs: 1.75TB Samsung SSD's + 10TB HDD's - OS: Windows 10 Insiders Build Fast Ring - Monitors: Asus PB287Q 4K  -  Mouse: Corsair Glaive RGB - Keyboard: Corsair K95 Platinum MX Brown - 

Audio: Asus Xonar STX + Senn HD650

 

 

 

 

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