BUdget Skylake built!

[Lyfer]

Parts used in the build were:


Skylake i5 6500 (stock HSF)
Asrock H170M Pro 4
Gskill 8gb DDR2133 RAM
Evga Gtx 970 4gb
Rose will Stryker M chassis
Seasonic 520w psu
Crucial bx100 250gb SSD
Seagate 1tb hdd

Total with tax and ship $891.03.

 

[Ken g6]

Looks good assuming you're only gaming on 1080P. Which Gigabyte board is that?

 

[Lyfer]

This:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5174#ov

Supports all haswell cpu's out of the box. Bundled with CPU for $244.

 

[Seba]

That Seasonic power supply is a S12II-520 Bronze I presume. I'll get a Seasonic S12G-550 instead.

 

[Lyfer]

Correct. Normally it's $60 but I got a 10% coupon. The s12g is out of budget.

 

[Lyfer]

Looks like the lower end i5 6500 skylake is up now. It adds $70 more - is this even worth it over haswell? Also it appears the non K includes a cooler.

Thoughts?

 

[j03h4gLund]

Where are you ordering from?

 

[Lyfer]

Newegg. No tax since I live in NC.

 

[Lyfer]

I bit the bullet and paid a little extra for skylake. $909 total. Went with the as rock h170m pro 4 board and gskill 8gb kit of 2133mhz ddr4 with a 65w i5 6500.

 

[Lyfer]

System built today. Everything seems to be working fine. Installed windows 8 then upgraded to 10.

One question, the GTX 970 is longer than I expected and kinda touching the tip of one my fan headers (the y splitter to be exact). Should I be concerned?

 

[lehtv]

Probably not, but you could post a photo here just in case

 

[Ken g6]

Hey, can I ask you a question? In your BIOS, are there options for overclocking your RAM? You don't have to actually do it; I just want to check if they exist on H170.

 

[Lyfer]

Hey, can I ask you a question? In your BIOS, are there options for overclocking your RAM? You don't have to actually do it; I just want to check if they exist on H170.

None that I can see under advanced. This is a basic no frills H170 board and only list ddr2133 as the supported speeds.