mini ITX board for Skylake

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I'm going to build a mini ITX PC for gaming. I need Wi-Fi, optical audio out, USB 3.1, Bluetooth, etc. So I'm going with Z170 chipset to do everything good. But the CPU is i5-6500 a non unlocked one. Help me to choose a board. There are three options I found.
1.Asus Z170I Pro Gaming
2.Gigabyte GA-Z170N Gaming 5
3.MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC
Your recommendations will be considered. Please also include the price.
 
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Motherboard: ASRock Z170M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($110.98 @ Newegg)
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-24 04:38 EDT-0400

This is one of the boards with non-k overclocking ability. The ASRock beta BIOS download can be found here if you decide to tweak that i5-6500.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z170M-ITXac/?cat=Beta

There is also the more expensive gaming version that has ALC1150 sound chip and also has non-K overclock ability:

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($157.98 @ Newegg)
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker...
Motherboard: ASRock Z170M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($110.98 @ Newegg)
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-24 04:38 EDT-0400

This is one of the boards with non-k overclocking ability. The ASRock beta BIOS download can be found here if you decide to tweak that i5-6500.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z170M-ITXac/?cat=Beta

There is also the more expensive gaming version that has ALC1150 sound chip and also has non-K overclock ability:

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($157.98 @ Newegg)
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-24 04:42 EDT-0400

 
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