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Here I am, stuck with my old "gaming"-Machine. I need to get a new build soon.

And there's my question: What are your motherboard suggestions to go along a i7 4790K, which I want to overclock a bit (let's say 4.5-4.7 GHz), some basic Hyper X fury RAM or some stuff like that and a GTX 970, 980, or possibly a R9 3xx GPU. I thought of some basic Mainboard since those overpriced gaming type of boards don't offer that big of improvements. -> Shouldn't cost more than 150 Bucks. 

Thanks :)

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The ASUS Z97-A, Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5, MSI Z97 Gaming 5 and AsRock Z97 Extreme4 are all good. The Z97S SLI Krait, ASUS Z97-C, AsRock Z97 Extreme3/Pro4 and the Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 are also fine.

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If you don't need any other special features, pretty much any z97 board would do.

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Any of these:

https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/motherboard/overall-list/#c=99&sort=a8&page=1

Personally I'd go for this one because of the looks and I'm familiar with MSI BIOS and it's mATX

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z97mgaming

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