Z77 MOBOS are good for gaming. You can get an i5 Sandy bridge and over clock the shit out of them. That will be a cheaper build then buying a Z97 with a 5th gen i7 Processor

Gigabyte and MSI make some seriously nice boards.


Listen to What burning has to say though He has some good advice about MSI boards.

But if you want to over clock don't buy MSI. Gigabyte OCing is retarded easy.