Is using a cheap motherboard dangerous for other components?

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I just want to know from the experts if using a cheap motherboard specifically an ECS H110M4-C3D dangerous for the other components. How will it work out if I put an i7-6700, 32gb(16x2) RAM, and GTX 1070. Will the other components be at risk because of the cheap motherboard?

I'm asking this because I don't want to use an expensive motherboard. I have a friend who had a $200 Asus Z97 motherboard, and his motherboard gave up within a year. Although his other components were not affected.
 
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There are cheap motherboards and there are inexpensive motherboards. Low end boards are cheaper because they have fewer features such as fewer SATA and USB ports RAM slots, graphics solutions, etc. What you have to be careful of is the quality of the components used to build the board, particularly the capacitors and PCB itself. Your best bet is to look at as many reviews (Newegg customers reviews can be a good place to start) as possible for the boards your interested in. FWIW, almost no enthusiast use ECS boards. My limited experience with them has shown them to use very thin PCB's and they don't hold up over the long run.
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usually overspending on a board is not necessary
going with the cheapest board possible mostly doesn't offer high quality, but it shouldn't be dangerous to the components connected but it can however mean that the RAM controller works as it should, you could have issues with sound or network after a while due to low quality components

as with everything concering computers: no need to overspend (I mean there are 500$ customer mainboards...generally I haven't seen anyone who needed a mainboard for more than 200$, seeing you use an i7-6700, a 75-100$ H170/B150 board would do) but don't get the cheapest garbage you can find
 
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What happen to your friend is precisely what you would expect by overclocking. Things might work fairly well for some time, then something happen and your board can't cope for obvious reason. Mostly, such incident involve sudden power surge and bad PSU.
And you are correct in your assumption. The very first thing likely to die due to improper OC setup or method is motherboard.

That said, the CPU you choose is a non K part. Meaning, it can't overclock since everything locked by default.
And the board you choose is a barebone board. The very idea of it is just to make sure stuff works, not to push them.
 
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There are cheap motherboards and there are inexpensive motherboards. Low end boards are cheaper because they have fewer features such as fewer SATA and USB ports RAM slots, graphics solutions, etc. What you have to be careful of is the quality of the components used to build the board, particularly the capacitors and PCB itself. Your best bet is to look at as many reviews (Newegg customers reviews can be a good place to start) as possible for the boards your interested in. FWIW, almost no enthusiast use ECS boards. My limited experience with them has shown them to use very thin PCB's and they don't hold up over the long run.
 
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