MSI H110M vs B150M

shwegdow

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Aug 5, 2016
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Hi, I'd like to know the difference between the MSI H110M Pro-VH and the B150M Pro-VDH and is it significant? I'm thinking of going with the B150M Pro-VDH because it has 4 DIMM slots and I was thinking of getting another 2 x 4GB RAM sticks in the future. Is 8GB enough for gaming or will I have to upgrade to 16GB in the near future?

Another difference I have seen is SATA Express, is SATA Express much faster and is it worth the extra money?
 
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You get 4 more HSIO lanes by going with the B150 and therefore more usable USB/SATA ports and its PCIe slots have more bandwidth.

MSI H110M Pro-VH only has a HDMI port for the integrated video (-VD version has the DVI) while the B150M Pro-VHD has both.

The B150m also has much better layout and one more case fan header,

SATA Express is pretty much dead at this point. Manufacturers who want to make anything faster than SATA3 has already move on to other solution.

I don't remember specifically which but there was a title that has 16GB RAM as its recommendation specs so you'd probably be looking at RAM upgrades in about 2 years.

FD2Raptor

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You get 4 more HSIO lanes by going with the B150 and therefore more usable USB/SATA ports and its PCIe slots have more bandwidth.

MSI H110M Pro-VH only has a HDMI port for the integrated video (-VD version has the DVI) while the B150M Pro-VHD has both.

The B150m also has much better layout and one more case fan header,

SATA Express is pretty much dead at this point. Manufacturers who want to make anything faster than SATA3 has already move on to other solution.

I don't remember specifically which but there was a title that has 16GB RAM as its recommendation specs so you'd probably be looking at RAM upgrades in about 2 years.
 
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