1150 motherboard best for less than £100 with M.2

[viola2572]

Hi. I am looking for advice as to the best 1150 motherboard for less than £100 with M.2, there are so many out there the bigger the better, the more PCIE slots the better , any ideas?

[Xyphus]

The MSI Z97 Gaming 5 might be a good choice. It weighs in at $128 U.S. Dollars which should be pretty close to 100 Pounds. Check it out on Amazon (I would post a direct link, but can't due to forum restrictions...)

It has received some very good reviews and after having owned two MSI motherboards in the past, I can highly recommend them for features and longevity.

Quoted from the specs page:

Socket LGA 1150, Supports DDR3-3300(OC) Memory, M.2 + USB 3.0 + SATA 6Gb/s
Supports 4th and 5th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1150 socket
Audio Boost 2: Reward Your Ears with True Quality, Serve Stable 5V Power & Better Signal Transmission over USB
3 PCI-E x16 3.0 (16x single card, 8x+8x dual card or 8x+4x+4x triple card) and 4 PCI-E x1
VGA, DVI and HDMI, Multi-GPU: NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFire Support

[ricecooker888]

Have a look at MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition, Asus Intel Z97-P or the cheaper Gigabyte Z97-D3H. But beware that they might not support the full potential speed of 32gb/s of the m.2 ssd!