Upgrade choice - advice needed

[MultiCofy]

Hey guys,

So I'm looking to upgrade my current PC and first on my agenda is the motherboard. I'm looking for a mobo that has medium-high overclocking abilities, is ATX or mATX and has a 1150 socket on it. Also, what I've seen on some of the older mobos that I had, they had support for what I think is RAID (2 differently colored SATA ports) so I'm wondering whether new mobos implement this as well?

And another question, what would be the upgrade capability of such a motherboard, in terms of future processors? (as I imagine most of the other stuff won't change dramatically, besides maybe RAM, but I reckon I'll be fine with DDR3 for years to come - feel free to dispute me on this though)

Thanks for your help
Phil

 

[boosted1g]

All new motherboards can do minimum of raid 0 and raid 1, most can do more advanced raid arrays.

What you want is a Z97 chipset board, Z series boards allow overclock and the 97 series will support the next generation intel cpu's.

For a more gaming performance oriented board that is not hitting the wallet too hard I would look at the gigabyte gaming 5 board or the ASUS Z97-A

 

[MultiCofy]

One more question then - would it be a bad idea if I added 20€ on top of that Z97-A to get (what looks to be) the better Maximus VII Ranger?

 

[Tradesman1]

The Ranger or the A should suit your needs (would love to get my hands on one - not available in the States, it's a little brother to the Hero), as far as down the road, yes the Z97 will be able to run the Broadwell Cpus when released