Decent motherboard for my already built rig

[HeftyNugget]

Straight to the point.

I'm looking for a premium grade, decent motherboard that actually works, unlike MSI Z97S Krait Edition.

I've bought the forementioned motherboard and after 3 days realized that RAM DIMMS, both 3rd and 4th don't work - in addition SATA controller turns on and off randomly causing bluescreens (piece of crap if you ask me)

 

DO NOT BUY THAT MOTHERBOARD.

 

Now back to the topic - I'm looking for a premium motherboard with these features:

-Fast PCI-E (sufficient for my GTX 980Ti STRIX OC)

-Highly overclocking-friendly

-SATA Express

-LGA1150 Socket (The one for i7-4790K)

-DDR3 RAM DIMMs

-SLI

 

Thanks in advance!

[tomaatvk]

Straight to the point.

I'm looking for a premium grade, decent motherboard that actually works, unlike MSI Z97S Krait Edition.

I've bought the forementioned motherboard and after 3 days realized that RAM DIMMS, both 3rd and 4th don't work - in addition SATA controller turns on and off randomly causing bluescreens (piece of crap if you ask me)

 

DO NOT BUY THAT MOTHERBOARD.

 

Now back to the topic - I'm looking for a premium motherboard with these features:

-As fast PCI-E as possible (for my GTX 980Ti STRIX OC)

-Highly overclocking-friendly

-SATA Express

-LGA1150 Socket (The one for i7-4790K)

-DDR3 RAM DIMMs

-SLI

 

Thanks in advance!

 

RMA the MSI motherboard is my first advice.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Any particular colour scheme you're looking for? Budget and location?

 

EDIT: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 and Asus Z97-A are both solid choices. 

[TheRandomness]

Literally any Z97 board would be fine, so long as it isn't super cheap so like https://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z97g45gaming or https://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z97ar. Also, as for PCIe slot speed, graphics cards still don't get bottlenecked by PCIe 2.0 x8 slot speeds...

[HeftyNugget]

RMA the MSI motherboard is my first advice.

Already did - courier will pick it up tommorow and money refund will be applied - I might do cross-shipping.

 

 

Any particular colour scheme you're looking for? Budget and location?

 

EDIT: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 and Asus Z97-A are both solid choices. 

There's no budget set, I'll just decide if it's worth my money if I get proper suggestions

Location: Poland

 

Color scheme? I dunno - my case is big, sturdy, black and made of steel.

My GPU is red and black, but LED's in my case are blue and red.

I guess, no specific color scheme

[HeftyNugget]

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