Hi all, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind recommending me a motherboard for when I upgrade to Skylake. I'm having a lot of trouble.
Computer uses: Running and coding a lightweight Steam trading bot on a small windows 7 virtual PC, run windows 10 home on host, gaming, web browsing.
I'm thinking that I would like a motherboard that would help a newbie overclocker like me get a little more bang for the buck out of an i5-6600K so that I won't miss my expensive i7-3820. I've learned a little more now, and have learned that an i7 is often a waste due to the small boost in gaming performance.
I understand how to overclock and am not averse to learning more. But I would still like to, just for the sake of time management, stick with a motherboard that had a lot of automatic overclocking features. I am also strongly considering watercooling for the CPU.
Motherboard features dedicated to gaming are nice, but not just because they are called gaming. I am aware not all "gaming" features on mobo's are very useful but I am keen to hearing about some that are interesting/nice/helpful.
I would also like to really be somewhat future-proof. There is a lot of nice tech coming out that I don't want to miss. But I also don't want to waste money on things I won't need.
This is much less important but it would be nice to have something that fit a white/blue/black color scheme.
EDIT: No budget included! This is intentional. I can spend lots of money, so long as I'm not wasting any. Unless there are some more expensive motherboards out there that I don't know about, then just consider anything under $400 fair game.
Thank you so much for any help!
Computer uses: Running and coding a lightweight Steam trading bot on a small windows 7 virtual PC, run windows 10 home on host, gaming, web browsing.
I'm thinking that I would like a motherboard that would help a newbie overclocker like me get a little more bang for the buck out of an i5-6600K so that I won't miss my expensive i7-3820. I've learned a little more now, and have learned that an i7 is often a waste due to the small boost in gaming performance.
I understand how to overclock and am not averse to learning more. But I would still like to, just for the sake of time management, stick with a motherboard that had a lot of automatic overclocking features. I am also strongly considering watercooling for the CPU.
Motherboard features dedicated to gaming are nice, but not just because they are called gaming. I am aware not all "gaming" features on mobo's are very useful but I am keen to hearing about some that are interesting/nice/helpful.
I would also like to really be somewhat future-proof. There is a lot of nice tech coming out that I don't want to miss. But I also don't want to waste money on things I won't need.
This is much less important but it would be nice to have something that fit a white/blue/black color scheme.
EDIT: No budget included! This is intentional. I can spend lots of money, so long as I'm not wasting any. Unless there are some more expensive motherboards out there that I don't know about, then just consider anything under $400 fair game.
Thank you so much for any help!
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