New build, do i have the right motherboard ?

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Hey guys,

Building a new rig over the course of the next few days, and while I'm an avid gamer, i've never actually build my own, by my own hands. I'm, at least on paper, quite suprised with the price point, and stats i'm seeing, can some people answer a question or two for me.

Firstly, here is what I got :

Corsair Carbide 100R case
ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ LGA 1151
EVGA 650W ATX12V Power Supply
Core I7 7700K
Kingwin FPX-003 Fan controller
WD Blue 250GB SSD
Seagate 2TB BarraCuda
Samsung Evo 250GB SSD
Thermaltake RIING Silent 12 Pro 170W - w/120mm fan ( to small ? )
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz
Rosewill RNX-AC1300PCE Wi-Fi Adapter
ASUS GTX 970

Now, my questions. Will this motherboard support these three drives, and the fan controller. and the wifi controller? The samsung EVO is a m.2, the seagate and WD blue are both sata. Will I be able to add another M.2 , i was under the impression the PCIE slots were being shared, maybe someone would dumb this down for me. Also, is that CPU cooler going to give me decent results ?

Thanks ahead of time :)
 
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I don't understand. The z270 has less m.2 connections, less sata connections, and even more importantly, less fan controllers. What is the benefit of not updating the bios more frequently ? I'll take more options / connections, and faster bus speeds over having to do updates.
 
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Well if you want the Z170 you'll have to take it to a shop and ask them to flash the BIOS with a Skylake CPU first

Before you can use it. The Z170, B150 and H110 mobos need a BIOS update first before they'll support a Kaby Lake CPU

If you dont flash the BIOS if you've got a H1110, Z170 or B150 mobo, it'll never post. Or turn on, if you installed a Kaby Lake CPU



 
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you're much better off getting a Z270 if you're going with a Kaby Lake CPU. otherwise, you have a fair chance of not seeing that PC booting up, unless you can confirm they're shipping that mobo with the latest BIOS now.

M.2 slots share the same bandwith with a SATA express port. Use an M.2 slot, one SATA express port is disable.

I advise you get a dual channel 2x8GB kit now over a single stick of RAM. first off, you may or may not see some issue adding a RAM stick at a later date, so it's best to root out the complications now. secondly, you won't see much gain going more than 16GB, let alone 8GB, in most cases when it comes to gaming. Thirdly, it's better you utilize the dual channel feature now to maximize your PC's performance.

I don't quite see a CPU cooler in your list. I recommend either one of the CM Hyper 212 series, or a Cryorig H7 for a first time builder planning to OC.
 
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And why do I have to take it somewhere to flash the bios, why can't I do it ?
As for the cooler :

Thermaltake RIING Silent 12 Pro 170W - w/120mm fan

Additionally, I'm not really building it for gaming, hence why i want the more storage optoins. It's a work machine that I happen to game on. Gaming is second though.
 
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You don't ever really need more then one M.2 connector because you would have SSD's and HDD's as mass storage. I don't know what you mean by less fan controllers. You buy fan controllers. Do you mean connectors? If you screw up updating the BIOS you risk "bricking" the computer. Updating the BIOS frequently doesn't really matter.
 
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I mean connectors yes, sorry, my mistake. You can use m.2 drives as mass storage. I already had some handy, which is why i'm using them. Rather than adding more to the build.
 
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So.. I can't update the bios unless i have a skylake CPU installed, then I have to install the kabylake? Is that what you're saying ?
 
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because not ALL Z170 boards support the newer Kaby Lake CPUs right out of the box. They NEED a BIOS update if you want to run something like an i7-7770K. otherwise, if you want something that works out of the box, then you're only option is going with a last gen CPU. the other option is going with a Z270 mobo that readily supports current gen and last gen CPUs straight away.
 
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well.. that sucks. Thanks for the info guys, it's good, and very helpful.
 
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So, i presume : ASUS ROG STRIX Z270E GAMING will suffice okay ?
 
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