Asus Z170a or MSI Z170a?

TheMightyBears

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I'm looking at two similar priced boards just now:

- MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Motherboard

- Asus Z170-a Skylake

I like the red of the MSI board but the Asus board has stronger reviews. The board needs to be compatible with i7 6700k, Samsung 950, DDR4 RAM, 980ti GPU. If neither board has on board WIFI, and it looks like they don't, I'll use a PCI-e card.

Any info you guys could give on which to choose?
 
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Both support all the parts listed above and neither card has built in wifi. Both boards are excellent and I would personally go for the MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Motherboard. It looks great, overclocks well and has a solid feature set.

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Thank you very much for the response. I'm leaning towards the MSI myself because it looks cool ahd has some very nice LEDs. I have a black Corsair 540 case and this MSI board could really make it look awesome.

Could you recommended a PCI-e WIFI card?