ASRock Z170 Pro4S ATX 1151 (Skylake) mobo $59.99 AR ($30) + $2.99 ship @ Newegg

VirtualLarry

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I own two of these. I overclocked a pair of G4400 dual-core Skylake Pentium CPUs in them. Got them up to around 4.5Ghz @ 1.400V or so. (The start of the "danger zone", according to the mobo.)

Pretty decent board, haven't had any compatibility or reliability issues with it.

Has one "Ultra M.2 (32Gbit/sec)" port on it, and two PCI-E x16 slots (one x16 3.0, from CPU, one x4, unsure whether PCI-E 2.0 or 3.0, from chipset). Does NOT support SLI, only Crossfire.

A budget Z170 for sure, but doesn't seem bad to me.

Note: I use a 7950 3GB card, and not the onboard audio, so I can't really comment on the quality of that. It does have an Intel LAN controller though, which I've found is pretty decent.
 
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PliotronX

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Nice! ASRock is my choice these days. As it was with Abit and DFI back in the day :D