I need a motherboard

Wayfall · May 3, 2016

Hi Community

Could you help me with picking a motherboard by recommending a good strong well built motherboard that will work with an Intel Core i7 6700.

I would say around £40-120 budget wise for the motherboard due to the CPU it's self being nearly £260.

Thanks

Gingerbread · May 3, 2016

That really depends on your requirements. If it's just a mobo which has to hold the CPU and nothing else, then the lowest h110 would do the job. If you want sli/crossfire, you will have to get something better. Features like usb type-c and type-a further increase the price. So does an m2 slot.

Wayfall · May 3, 2016

I currently have an ASROCK Z97 Anniversary (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard.

I want a similar board (well I don't need the standard PCI slot), just one that can hold the new Skylake CPU.

Pretty much a standard board with a PCIE slot.

Dulith1118 · May 3, 2016

Asus z170-A is what i recommend

Gingerbread · May 3, 2016

If you don't need anything more than a PCI-E slot, then I would suggest getting a B150 motherboard. Personally I am a huge fan of the Gigabyte B150M-D3H. Has 4 DIMMs, has 2 PCi-E slots (even xfire support), has m2 slot. All you need from a board. And costs around $60 which is perfect. It can handle every gpu of course and it has the 4 slots for 64gb ram so I can't really recommend spending money on anything more than that. Or you could add $10 more and buy a mottherboard with the same features but the addon of an usb type-c and type-a.

Wayfall · May 3, 2016

What is 'usb type-c and type-a'?

Also why is it with the more expensive boards you see a lot more of those silver battery looking things around the board and CPU socket that look like capacitors if that is what they are?

Gingerbread · May 3, 2016

I don't know what you are referring to but sounds like the CMOS battery, which pretty much every motherboard has. It is used because mobos still use Real Time Clock. Usb type-c is the new USB which is faster and can be plugged in both ways (you can google it).

Wayfall · May 3, 2016

Gingerbread :

I know what the CMOS battery is, these aren't it.

The silver metal cylinders that stand up around the socket and are also dotted around the board, you cant miss them. I was just wondering why more expensive boards have more of them.

Wayfall · May 3, 2016

And this USB thing is basically like the new Aple Ipod lightning cables right?

Gingerbread · May 3, 2016

Yeah to put it simply, that's the usb type-c. Also those, around the socket, pretty sure you are referring to the capacitors. Not extremely good at explaining but basically they produce the power supply for the CPU itself, that's why high end motherboards have more of them, so that they can produce higher voltage and support better overclocking capabilities.

Wayfall · May 3, 2016

aaah okay, I'm not overclocking so doesn't matter then.

I did hear that some people have found how to overclock locked Skylake CPU and that Gigabyte had made a BIOS update to support it, I found it rather interesting (I don't know how intel would feel about this)

Gingerbread · May 3, 2016

Yeah when it comes to bclk overclock, it's possible.

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