Out of Pod Experience

---Greetings all! I am building a new PC and plan on ordering all the pieces today. A big part of building my new PC is to play Eve, so I am building it with that in mind. The goal for my system is to play 2 accounts on 2 monitors simultaneously with fairly high graphics. I have been researching all the parts for 3 weeks and have yet to decide on a motherboard. The CPU I have chosen is the Intel Core i5-2500K/2550k Sandy Bridge. I don't want to dish out the extra cash for an Ivy Bridge when it doesn't offer that much more, and they run a lot hotter.
---So when I start looking into motherboards I see that ASUS isn't the no-brainer it use to be, they get as many bad reviews as they do good. Gigabytes are having problems with infinite boot-loops and high out of box failures. MSI doesn't benchmark well on multi-tasking. Asrock? Never heard of them before 3 weeks ago. So I am really stuck here...

---What I am hoping that the Eve community might give me some advice today before I roll the dice on a MoBo and order this evening. I appreciate any input you can provide.

My system template:

COOLER MASTER HAF 922 (3 200mm fans) Purchased
Corsair 750watt Power Supply (Purchased)
Intel Core i5-2500K or 2550k Sandy Bridge
Motherboard?
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600
MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II 2GD5/OC

just rigged my things up few days ago. I went for Ivy but Sandy 2500k for a gaming pc is just awesome. You won't have PCI-E 3.0 but it's nothing major you have to worry about and you'll easily buff your Sandy up to 4.5GHz _easily_! Your GPU also is a very good one for a 2 monitor setup. I had the 1Gb version till last week and was playing on a double monitor 1920x1080 with full details.

Coming in topic...... I just got the Asrock z77 extreme6 even if I always had ASUS before. There are few things I don't like of this mobo: some obsolete feature (floppy disk plug 0_0), manuals are crappy but they have what you need anyway and prolly the "worse" thing: those good looking sort-of-triangular-covers on the passive heatsinks are plastic made and glued with a sort of silicon crap on the rear, really terrible for heat dispersion, expecially the one on the chipset which is the one who gets warmer. Something bad happened to them:

http://i.imgur.com/DYdER.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5HlF6.jpg

Now my mobo it's just freaking awesome \o/
Very good for overclocking, stable and with all the setups you want in the bios, very much tested by the nerdy community out there, a cool feature to update your bios with a single click in windows (you have the other usual options too), just remember NOT TO TOUCH ANYTHING while the bios is uploading, it may take you 1 min for the system having to scan memory areas to map where the bios is. Nice extra features on the asrock site too (mufin player is just a gadget added on the mobo but it's freaking awesome). Prolly not the best one if you'll ever go SLI/XFIRE but it still supports a 3-way one at 4x or a 2-way one at 8x.

the extreme4 isn't too bad either, few less performance, a supposed inferiority in overclocking and a lil worse/cheaper usb-3/sata3 extra ports with a worse controller.

So, go for it!

that's a good rig, I'd have gone for a 2Gb gpu tho. Note that also EVE will have dx11 and tasselation soon (i hope VERY soon) and that single G won't suffice for a dual monitor/client setup. Not to mention other games which already can fill up the 2Gb as well (BF3, Crysis, Skyrim and such). Mobo should be fine too

that can be ok, even if...... it will be noisy and hot as hell at max details

you went for the right one at first, the MSI twin frozr 2gb! It's another 40 bucks more but a huge difference in your daily use, for several reasons not only noise and temperature

Last option: could you consider a 670? Those cards rocks, maybe not the double of the 560 but a +50% for sure. They even suck less power than the 560, even if for EVE a 560ti 2G could be ok for a long time ar least

edit: oh nous, the MSI cost LESS on newegg!!! 269$ you can't miss that, really that's an uber card!