Motherboards Intel Q87 Chipset mobo advice

I have an opportunity to purchase a new Intel DQ87PG socket 1150 mobo for a decent price.
As I have a i3 4150, I will not be overclocking.

The board seems well featured with plenty of SATA ports, PCI EX X16, usb 3 etc
I am not interested in the 'business' features of this board but it seems a pretty decent board in its own right.
I have an Asus R9 290 powering a 1080p screen and am not interested in SLI/Crossfire, so the lack of multi GPU support is a non-issue for me.
Is there anything specific I should be concerned about?

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dq87pg.html

 

That depends what a 'decent' price is.

 

£50

 

That's not great. You can get far better boards for just a tenner more.

Our server uses a GIGABYTE H97M-D3H, which was £65 new about six months ago and it's incredible for the money.

 

does it have to be m-atx?

if so how about

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/msi-...6gb-s-sata-raid-pcie-30-(x16)-dport-hdmi-matx

if not you have the option of

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/giga...-ddr3-pcie-30-(x16)-2-way-crossfirex-hdmi-atx

and ofc register your forum account with scan for free delivery

 

Thanks for the advice both. It is going into a Silverstone Temjin matx case, so does need to be matx. When you say 'better', if I am not overclocking, what is better about the examples given?

 

There's nothing wrong with Intel boards but they tend to be strictly functional.

Look at the power circuitry for example, looks like its 2 or 3 phases on the Intel board where as the MSI listed above has 8.

 

Thanks Mr B. This was the kind of thing (power phases) that I am not really up on.
The MSI board looks excellent VFM considering the features.