Micro-ATX Motherboard Help - First Build

FlowyMint

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Hey there guys! I'm looking to do a Corsair Carbide Air 240 mATX build. The reason for this is I want a smaller profile build that I can work with a gtx 1070 founders card I got at a steal. I'm thinking of going with an i5 6600k CPU. I'm also doing a Black/Green/Steel theme.

What are the best mATX motherboards out there right now? I'm not looking to cheap out but a good bang for buck on a higher end motherboard would be nice. Bonus points for having it match the color theme. Thanks a ton guys.
 
there aren't so many µATX Z170 boards out there.

the best being the ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Gene (~200$) which is slightly off your color scheme followed by the Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (~180$) which is heavily different from your color scheme

Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H & ASUS Z170M-Plus would be the other two choices (~125$) with the ASUS cheaping out with an ALC887 sound chip.

 

FlowyMint

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Thanks for the info! I'm a complete rookie when it comes to motherboards so what are the benefits of a Z170 motherboard? Also what about x99?
 

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