Intel B150 Motherboard Price List

Intel's B150 Chipset

Intel's B150 chipset was designed as a business-oriented solution, but it's also a viable option for low-cost enthusiast builds. Here is where you can find all available B150 motherboards on the market from reputable online retailers at the lowest price.


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Background Info

Typically, on each new platform, Intel releases a series of six chipsets to cover the market: Z(X)7, H(X)7, H(X)1, Q(X)7, Q(X)5 and B(X)5. In this model, the Z and H chipsets are targeted at consumers, while Q and B are targeted at business.

The B-series chipsets from Intel are intended to be the lowest-end business-oriented products, but they frequently find their way into consumer-built machines. This happens because of the relatively large feature gap between the two H chipsets. Although H170 offers a large number of PCI-E lanes, RAID support, and several other features, H110 has the least USB 3.0 support, SATA ports, and PCI-E lanes on the LGA 1151 platform.

In addition, the PCI-E connectivity in H110 is still based on the older PCI-E 2.0 standard, and the system can handle only two RAM modules, compared to four on all other chipsets in this generation.

The most alluring features that the H110 chipset offers is support for Skylake processors and a low price point. As a result, the H(X)1 chipsets are typically used only by people who simply need the system to work and can’t afford more feature rich motherboards.

This leaves system builders that don’t want to pay out for the more feature rich H170 chipset in a tough spot. For most, B150 is the solution to this problem, as it is a relatively inexpensive product that still supports PCI-E 3.0, and it has two additional SATA-III and USB 3.0 ports compared to H110. As such, these boards serve a vital role in the market as low cost business and consumer solutions that still offer a reasonable list of features.


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Intel 100 Series Consumer Chipsets

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Header Cell - Column 0 Z170H170B150H110
CPU PCI-E 3.0 Config Support1 x 16 / 2 x 8 / 1 x 8 + 2 x 41 x 161 x 161 x 16
Independent Display Support3332
Memory Channels / DIMMs per Channel2 / 22 / 22 / 22 / 1
DMI3.03.03.02.0
CPU Overclocking Support
Intel Smart Sound Technology
Intel Small Business Advantage 4.0
Intel Small Business Basics
Intel RAID Support 0/1/5/10
Intel Smart Response Technology
Max Intel RST for PCI-E3200
I/O Port Flexibility
Maximum HSIO Lanes26221814
Chipset PCI-E Support20x v3.016x v3.08x v3.06 v2.0
USB Support (USB 3.0)14 (10)14 (8)12 (6)10 (4)
SATA 3.0 Ports6664


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Michael Justin Allen Sexton is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He covers hardware component news, specializing in CPUs and motherboards.
  • adamovera
    Archived comments are found here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2811447/intel-b150-motherboard-price-list.html
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  • TechyInAZ
    This reminds me of the gaming server boards made for Haswell Xeons. It's funny how much stuff gets re-purposed from prosumer to consumer.
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  • 67168
    where's the Mini-STX at ?
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  • IInuyasha74
    18879012 said:
    where's the Mini-STX at ?

    There currently aren't any mini-STX motherboards that use the B150 chipset available.
    Reply