CHEAP Motherboard for GTX 970 and i5 6500

Penguin On Fire · Apr 8, 2016

I am getting a new PC and I want to buy a motherboard which should cost under 100€.
I won't overclock or use SLI features. I don't want to spend so much money on it, but I want one which can work with good with a GTX 970, and if it's possible a decent sound quality.Thanks.

For now I have looking about the B150 models, are these for gaming? Maybe a H170 should be better. You tell me guys.

Thanks

Dulith1118 · Apr 8, 2016

so u have a skylark cpu???

Rogue Leader · Apr 8, 2016

B150 is the lowest end of the Skylake boards, and is missing a lot of fancy features. Still it will run the processor, a GTX 970 and it handles dual channel ram (up to 2133mhz). It will work fine for you.

Dulith1118 · Apr 8, 2016

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z170apro

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gab150mds3h

Penguin On Fire · Apr 8, 2016

Yes I use an i5 6500 skylake, do you think a B150 is enough and will not bottleneck? Which is the difference between B150 and H170 in terms of performance in gaming? Which features has the H170 that the B150 doesn't have?

Rogue Leader · Apr 8, 2016

Penguin On Fire :

There is no performance difference or bottlenecking due to motherboards.

This is an excellent article on the chipset differences:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-100-series-chipsets,29993.html

The difference for you is RAID support, PCIe lanes ( to SLI cards, add M.2 drives etc), USB 3 ports, thats about it.

Penguin On Fire · Apr 8, 2016

Do you think then that the ASUS B150M PRO GAMING will be enough to run the GTX 970, the i5 6500 with no problem? I won't use a lot of HDD's and complex features, only 1 gpu, no overclock and 1 HDD.

Thanks

Rogue Leader · Apr 8, 2016

Penguin On Fire :

Yes its completely fine for a basic gaming system.

Penguin On Fire · Apr 8, 2016

Ok I think I will pick you as the solution, thanks for that.

Just one last thing?

What do you mean for basic gaming system? my components are quite good.

Rogue Leader · Apr 8, 2016

Penguin On Fire :

By basic I mean nothing fancy.

Fancy would be an m.2 PCIE SSD, Hard drives in RAID, dual GPU's, 3000mhz memory, overclocked processor, etc.

All things you would need a Z170 board for....

Penguin On Fire · Apr 8, 2016

Thanks m8

Search

CHEAP Motherboard for GTX 970 and i5 6500

Penguin On Fire

Commendable

Rogue Leader

Dulith1118

Admirable

Rogue Leader

It's a trap!

Dulith1118

Admirable

Penguin On Fire

Commendable

Rogue Leader

It's a trap!

Penguin On Fire

Commendable

Rogue Leader

It's a trap!

Penguin On Fire

Commendable

Rogue Leader

It's a trap!

Penguin On Fire

Commendable

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page