ASUS has a lovely offering with the new Z97 SaberTooth mark 1. Opposed to our recent reviews from say MSI and others, this board is more price savvy, and you can see why ... no extra KillerNIC, WIFI, ...

Here you can see the three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, the black one is a mechanical x16 slot Gen 2.0 running a max of 4x lanes. The Brown and beige ones are x16 Gen 3.0 slots. use one and it'll assign ...