With AMD all but bowing out of the mid-range enthusiast gaming PC market, there is little choice left but to move the old standby AMDLS to an Intel-based build. It will retain its name, though. Although Intel has already moved forward a generation with its chipsets, I will favor Z97-based motherboards for the planned move into the midrange. Although the Asus Z97Pro is a nice board, it's higher pirce is due to extra features which I don't have a use for, meaning this build will also depart from its Asus foundations in favor of a Gigabyte board. Finally, although GeForce video cards come standard with many extra, useful features, I think I may opt for the Radeon solution which consistently offers more power for the price. However, there are some good prices on the new GeForce 970, which would be a potentially viable (but much more expensive) option. Therefore, the baseline setup for now is:
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 Haswell (3.2GHZ)
RAM: G.Skill Trident X Series 16GB DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200)
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270x 2GB
Alternate GPU: Gigabyte GV-N970G1 GeForce GTX 970 4GB
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