Your opinion needed on my first build... (±2500$ peripherals included)

[dizmo]

This board for SLI. It's 35 euro more, but it's also on sale (I think)

http://www.computerstore.be/product/405168/asus-z87-a.html

 

You'd probably also want to upgrade the power supply to something like this, or do it later.

http://www.computerstore.be/product/408678/category-202961-computervoedingen/corsair-ax860i.html

 

It adds a fair bit to the cost, so the PSU might be worth holding out on until you know you need it.

[Tomislav Matic]

This board for SLI. It's 35 euro more, but it's also on sale (I think)

http://www.computerstore.be/product/405168/asus-z87-a.html

 

You'd probably also want to upgrade the power supply to something like this, or do it later.

http://www.computerstore.be/product/408678/category-202961-computervoedingen/corsair-ax860i.html

 

It adds a fair bit to the cost, so the PSU might be worth holding out on until you know you need it.

god knows I love ASUS and stuff they do- but that gold. Soooo ugly... say: I seen that no one mentioned ASUS Hero or Gene - I think this is a cool build- but if you are not going to upgrade a lot, why wouldn't you go for an mATX board, smaller case (potentially cheaper) I think you could fit everything in a cool looking smaller system and spend more money on a bigger ssd or something. btw crucial m4 is also a great choice (when it comes to storage always go for the stuff that is rated as reliable rather than superfast- you won't notice the difference in speed so much but if your system goes down you will notice that). Just think about the stuff you are going to do with your computer. You should also consider AMD- for example FX 8350 is slightly under the i5 but it's cheaper, and has 8 cores- if you are planing to do mostly gaming, and some let's say video work that utilizes those 8 cores (unlike gaming does)- it could possibly be a better value option, since the amd boards tend to be a bit cheaper and usually offer more features than intel boards. What I'm trying to say it's not the best processor, gpu or ssd you need it's important to put your money where it counts for your usage.  I'm neither Intel or AMD fanboy (I use Intel and nVidia, currently but I had AMD systems before) Just for the record. 

[dizmo]

god knows I love ASUS and stuff they do- but that gold. Soooo ugly... say: I seen that no one mentioned ASUS Hero or Gene - I think this is a cool build- but if you are not going to upgrade a lot, why wouldn't you go for an mATX board, smaller case (potentially cheaper) I think you could fit everything in a cool looking smaller system and spend more money on a bigger ssd or something. btw crucial m4 is also a great choice (when it comes to storage always go for the stuff that is rated as reliable rather than superfast- you won't notice the difference in speed so much but if your system goes down you will notice that). Just think about the stuff you are going to do with your computer. You should also consider AMD- for example FX 8350 is slightly under the i5 but it's cheaper, and has 8 cores- if you are planing to do mostly gaming, and some let's say video work that utilizes those 8 cores (unlike gaming does)- it could possibly be a better value option, since the amd boards tend to be a bit cheaper and usually offer more features than intel boards. What I'm trying to say it's not the best processor, gpu or ssd you need it's important to put your money where it counts for your usage.  I'm neither Intel or AMD fanboy (I use Intel and nVidia, currently but I had AMD systems before) Just for the record. 

 

Haha, have to agree with you there. The Asus board isn't the prettiest.

I went with what was available from the shop he said he'd be buying from, and tried to keep it within his price range. There are a lot of other options I'd have gone over, but without knowing the pricing in his locale it seemed pointless. There's definitely a few tweaks that could be done. He said he might go SLI in the future, so an mATX board would be a little restrictive.

The Asus Hero or Sabertooth would be great options, but almost twice the price for not a great deal of gain. Aesthetics mostly.

[kvermeir]

thx for your feedback everybody

[kvermeir]

@dizmo I really like the Aesthetics of MSI motherboards (black-red) and you can add then an ASUS GPU or MSI GPU because they have the same colors...

[dizmo]

The G43 Gaming motherboard would work. 100 euro.