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PaoloPd

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Hi all, I am new in this forum and I have logged in as I don't succeed to find out one motherboard that can satisfy my targets.
I use my pc for: processing audio (real-time), video and photo editing (photoshop/AE/Premiere), sometime also 3d editing and gaming (Benchmark Sims with Falcon and UT99).
Right now I have one old motherboard (Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe) and I need to change with one newer but looking around the web I am confused. Many people say that Asus is going down as it is not like it was some years ago and they suggest to buy Gigabyte. I don't know if this debate is true, but my experience with asus is ok. For that reason I am looking for one board faster/stable/reliable/affordable as it is my own board.
I don't care to overlock, but I need a board with one or two PCI. I am not interested to have 2 or 3 slot for graphic cards: for what I do one slot is much more enough.
I have seen some motherboards as Asus Z170-A / Z170-P. I could install one cpu like i7 6700
but these are only my opinion and if you have more suggestions I will appreciate.

Thank and sorry for my english (very bad and scholastic!)
 
MongGrel

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PCI slots have been going the way of the dinosaur a long time now.

One of my old ASUS boards I bought 7 years ago has 7 PCI-E slots with no PCI and I had to purchase an adapter to use a PCI sound card with it.

PCI is about as common as a floppy drive on a lot of modern boards I would imagine.

I suspect you might know this anyway ...
 
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PaoloPd

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Yes I know that PCI is like talking about the stone-era, but I have many thing that use this way to (Scanner - ADA/DAC and so on) that I paid a lot of money.
 
BonzaiDuck

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I'm not personally familiar with the ASUS Z170-A, but with the same model or tier of ASUS boards. In our case, it was the Z77-A. I see that you get one PCI slot with the Z170 board.

For the price, you probably get a decent board. Not a stellar or phenomenal overclocker, but you can run a web-search and probably find people who had OC'd their 6700K to maybe 4.5 or 4.6.

I can also recommend the board that I only purchased early last month: the ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S. It's probably more than you want or need, but I think it can be had here in the states for ~ $170.00. If I weren't serious about OC'ing, or didn't covet the components used to build the Saber, or didn't care for thermal monitoring that is beyond most peoples' needs, I could've chosen a Z170-A.

There may be nothing at all wrong with boards from other manufacturers -- certainly nothing wrong -- and just as likely there are many great boards from Gigabyte, EVGA, MSI, and AsRock. The AsRock boards especially seem to have 'come into their own', and probably have overclocking capabilities above their very competitive price-level.

I tried an AsRock Z77 Extreme 3 board, but I didn't get a chance to really "try it." It came with damaged pins, where it looked as though the machine that puts the pins in the board had hiccupped, and I sent it back. That's not likely to be so common an occurrence, and a lot of folks swear by AsRock -- which was, as I understand, an ASUS corporate spin-off.
 
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PaoloPd

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BonzaiDuck said:
I'm not personally familiar with the ASUS Z170-A, but with the same model or tier of ASUS boards. In our case, it was the Z77-A. I see that you get one PCI slot with the Z170 board.
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Thank you for your answer, but as I have written I don't search for overlocking.
The motherboard have to to work hardly, for a long time and it must be very fast and reliable. It must be very spartan: processor/graphic card/3 or 4 hd/ and sometime one board pci as ADAC/DAC for real-time audio.
 
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