Choosing a motherboard

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GuileX

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I have been looking for a motherboard, but are inundated with info on the web, I know that people have their preferences.

I would like to hear anyone's opinion on the following 4 MB's.

http://www.wootware.co.za/asus-z170...1-skylake-atx-usb3-1-desktop-motherboard.html

http://www.wootware.co.za/msi-z170a...-lga-1151-atx-skylake-desktop-motheboard.html

http://www.wootware.co.za/gigabyte-...-lga1151-skylake-atx-desktop-motherboard.html

http://www.wootware.co.za/gigabyte-...-lga1151-skylake-atx-desktop-motherboard.html

Reason i am asking is i have been using gigabyte almost all my life, that is my preference, all makes hhave ups and downs.

I just read that i should stay away from the Asus Z170 A, some say MSI has improved greatly and i never had any likes for MSI.

Need your opinion's
 
All I can say is that I prefer Gigabyte - it always feels like more bang for buck. I do not own any of the two specified. The last one I purchased was a Z97X-UDSH and still love it to bits.
 
depending on what cpu you are going to drop in it you dont need a Z series at all,

Id recommend the Z170a Krait x3 from MSI and if black and white is not your thing get the z170i a gaming pro.

Im a huge msi fan and been using their boards for a while and the last one i had a problem with one was a DOA board K9n ultra AMD 2400+ days :D
 
GuileX said:
I have been looking for a motherboard, but are inundated with info on the web, I know that people have their preferences.

I would like to hear anyone's opinion on the following 4 MB's.

http://www.wootware.co.za/asus-z170...1-skylake-atx-usb3-1-desktop-motherboard.html

http://www.wootware.co.za/msi-z170a...-lga-1151-atx-skylake-desktop-motheboard.html

http://www.wootware.co.za/gigabyte-...-lga1151-skylake-atx-desktop-motherboard.html

http://www.wootware.co.za/gigabyte-...-lga1151-skylake-atx-desktop-motherboard.html

Reason i am asking is i have been using gigabyte almost all my life, that is my preference, all makes hhave ups and downs.

I just read that i should stay away from the Asus Z170 A, some say MSI has improved greatly and i never had any likes for MSI.

Need your opinion's
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Yes we need some more info.
What will the rest of the PC specs look like
And what will you be using the PC for .
 
Flex said:
Yes we need some more info.
What will the rest of the PC specs look like
And what will you be using the PC for .
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Well i am still pondering that one, but basically for everyday use and gaming, most of the games i want to play needs 4 cores.

So its either the i5 6600k overclocking, or just the regular i5 6500, Along that there will be 4 X 8gb gskill f4 ddr4 modules.

My current gtx 560 will go in there.
 
GuileX said:
Well i am still pondering that one, but basically for everyday use and gaming, most of the games i want to play needs 4 cores.

So its either the i5 6600k overclocking, or just the regular i5 6500, Along that there will be 4 X 8gb gskill f4 ddr4 modules.

My current gtx 560 will go in there.
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All those MB's you picked are all skylake. So Your CPU will need to be as well as far as I know.
IMO unless you are going to expand your pc much more (SLI graphics Cards) and so on, then those mobos are overkill for the system you want to build, it sounds like. I might be wrong here, but that is my opinion. There will defintely be people here that can give more detailed advice
 
GuileX said:
Well i am still pondering that one, but basically for everyday use and gaming, most of the games i want to play needs 4 cores.

So its either the i5 6600k overclocking, or just the regular i5 6500, Along that there will be 4 X 8gb gskill f4 ddr4 modules.

My current gtx 560 will go in there.
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You dont need that 6600K. Id take a h170 board. only 16GB of ram and take what ever money you can and put it towards the purchase of a new GPU. that 560 will seriously bottleneck this setup.


id even suggest something like the z170 msi pc mate version. its around 2k add that to the few hundred rands you saving on not going overkill on ram and cpu you should sit with around R3k spare. that is almost a amd R9 380 that is close to double your gpu performance,
 
Flex said:
All those MB's you picked are all skylake. So Your CPU will need to be as well as far as I know.
IMO unless you are going to expand your pc much more (SLI graphics Cards) and so on, then those mobos are overkill for the system you want to build, it sounds like. I might be wrong here, but that is my opinion. There will defintely be people here that can give more detailed advice
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The I5 6600k and I5 6500 is skylake cpu's that i mentioned.
 
Cranky said:
You dont need that 6600K. Id take a h170 board. only 16GB of ram and take what ever money you can and put it towards the purchase of a new GPU. that 560 will seriously bottleneck this setup.


id even suggest something like the z170 msi pc mate version. its around 2k add that to the few hundred rands you saving on not going overkill on ram and cpu you should sit with around R3k spare. that is almost a amd R9 380 that is close to double your gpu performance,
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My aim is to wait for the GTX 1080. for now the gtx 560 will suffice until then. I also would like to overclock it, Which means i have to take a Z170 board.

I am just uncertain about the MB makes.
 
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This is my current setup:
CPU: Intel i5 6600K
CPU cooling: Coolermaster Hyper 212X
MOBO: Asus Z170M-Plus
RAM: G.SKill Ripjwas 2X8GB DDR4 2666mhz
GFX: MSI R9 290
SSD: Crucial BX100 250GB

And it pretty much flies in all the games - tested out Battlefront with the trial and it handled Ultra no problem. So if you stuck a 1080 in there at some stage you'd be set.

At the time I was choosing between the Asus Z170M-plus and the MSI Z170A PC Mate - went with the Asus since I've had reliable Asus boards in the past but kinda wished I went with MSI now since the Asus board is a few USB ports less on the backplate. But it's been good so far. I get a stable 4.3GHz overclock on the CPU and would imagine I could go higher by playing around with the voltage if I really wanted to.
 
DarthMol said:
This is my current setup:
CPU: Intel i5 6600K
CPU cooling: Coolermaster Hyper 212X
MOBO: Asus Z170M-Plus
RAM: G.SKill Ripjwas 2X8GB DDR4 2666mhz
GFX: MSI R9 290
SSD: Crucial BX100 250GB

And it pretty much flies in all the games - tested out Battlefront with the trial and it handled Ultra no problem. So if you stuck a 1080 in there at some stage you'd be set.

At the time I was choosing between the Asus Z170M-plus and the MSI Z170A PC Mate - went with the Asus since I've had reliable Asus boards in the past but kinda wished I went with MSI now since the Asus board is a few USB ports less on the backplate. But it's been good so far. I get a stable 4.3GHz overclock on the CPU and would imagine I could go higher by playing around with the voltage if I really wanted to.
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I was going to take the Asus Z170 A but these following links made me think twice about taking asus.

https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/asus-z170-a-wont-boot/90184

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/443219-asus-z170-a-problems/

I am curious with the release of the GTX 1080 that you'd probably not need SLI anymore.
 
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