I'm building a new computer (haven't bought the parts yet) and I need help finding a good motherboard that is compatible with the rest of the parts below. I want a motherboard that overclocks well and is stable and good for gaming. I was looking at the ASUS Maximus VIII Hero and many people on newegg complained the board was either smoking in the I/O area upon power up or DOA and said it's unstable. So I'm not sure what m/b I should get. Also, if I can build a better PC for the money (all the parts below go for $2,121 on newegg), i'd appreciate help finding better parts.
Here is my build so far:
HDD: WD Black 2TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 TI ACX
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 850W
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G - OEM
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3400 (PC4 27200) Intel Z170
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1151
CPU COOLER: Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler
SSD: SAMSUNG 950 PRO M.2 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive
Corsair Gaming K95 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - RGB Lighting - Cherry MX Brown Switches
LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer Internal SATA Model ihas324-07
Is it a good build and can I do better for the price? And what m/b would you guys recommend? This is only my second time building a computer so sorry if some of the parts are not compatible. I think they are though.
Here is my build so far:
HDD: WD Black 2TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 TI ACX
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 850W
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G - OEM
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3400 (PC4 27200) Intel Z170
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1151
CPU COOLER: Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler
SSD: SAMSUNG 950 PRO M.2 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive
Corsair Gaming K95 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - RGB Lighting - Cherry MX Brown Switches
LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer Internal SATA Model ihas324-07
Is it a good build and can I do better for the price? And what m/b would you guys recommend? This is only my second time building a computer so sorry if some of the parts are not compatible. I think they are though.