I am looking into upgrading my motherboard soonish, right now I am running an MSI P67-GD45, which is decent, but it does not really have the features I want / decent overclocking capabilities.
Along with this new motherboard, I might buy an i5-3570k, since from what I can understand, my 2600k will not fit most newer motherboards because it's not socket 2011. I might bump that up to a 3770k.
I am purely a gamer, and wish for something with excellent overclocking at a sensible price, preferably below $300 dollars somewhere.
So far I have been looking at a MSI Z77A-GD65. I know most people are sporting ASUS / AsRock motherboards, but there's no brand fanboying and I am open to anything as long as it will fit everything I have.
I don't know if this is too much to ask for, but perhaps a mobo where the SATA 3.0 ports are not located like right under where the graphics card would be (sarcasm, but I want this ;_. I can only use 2/6 of my current SATA ports, because I can not fit the connectors under the graphics card, and I got optical drives and several SSD's plus a HDD.