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Skylake Z170 Motherboard Round-Up

utahraptor

utahraptor

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http://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/2010-skylake-z170-motherboard-specs-round-up

MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock, ASUS, EVGA, Biostar

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Asus

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Asrock

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BioStar

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EVGA

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Gigabyte

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...And none with ANY DDR3 slots. Guess I'm not upgrading for a while. I have 24GB of DDR3-1866, I see no reason to spend the money on what will likely amount to a minimal performance difference for DDR4. Not to mention I'd end up with only 16GB so it's pointless.
 
cruzinforit said:
...And none with ANY DDR3 slots. Guess I'm not upgrading for a while. I have 24GB of DDR3-1866, I see no reason to spend the money on what will likely amount to a minimal performance difference for DDR4. Not to mention I'd end up with only 16GB so it's pointless.
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yeah, same. I'm not ditching my DDR3 ram.

I'll also have to wait for a micro-ATX one, hopefully not too long..?
 
Time to do research again I guess.

As usual, I'm looking for a low to medium priced board with just the basic Intel stuff, no 3rd party controllers and clutter. But it should still have decent OC capabilities. It seems to be practically impossible to find this every time...
 
Are there any companies besides EVGA with a Z170 mini-ITX board at launch? I'm not a fan of EVGA mobos, but I might be interested in an ITX Skylake rig. Well, much moreso if they have an unlocked Pentium or i3 CPU to go with it. Don't want to pay the $$$ for an unlocked quad-core, and I have thermal / power concerns with a quad in an ITX rig too. (Remember, no FIVR, so we need more / beefier mobo VRMs to feed the CPU, which is difficult, to say the least, with ITX form-factor.)

Apparently, there's an ASrock ITX Z170 AC wireless board:

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VirtualLarry said:
Are there any companies besides EVGA with a Z170 mini-ITX board at launch? I'm not a fan of EVGA mobos, but I might be interested in an ITX Skylake rig. Well, much moreso if they have an unlocked Pentium or i3 CPU to go with it. Don't want to pay the $$$ for an unlocked quad-core, and I have thermal / power concerns with a quad in an ITX rig too. (Remember, no FIVR, so we need more / beefier mobo VRMs to feed the CPU, which is difficult, to say the least, with ITX form-factor.)

Apparently, there's an ASrock ITX Z170 AC wireless board:

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According to this Asus will have one. Haven't seen any pictures of it yet.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/m...1-mainboards-for-intels-skylake-s-processors/
 
Thanks to both!
I had indeed noticed one or two ATX boards in the very low end with PCI, but started getting worried there not being higher end ones with PCI slots.

That krait board already easies me up before upcoming September Skylake build.
 
 
seems like they keep changing the setup so we have to spend more money on new parts, plus like i saw written that they are phasing out the old PCI slots, I am also wondering what to do, i was looking at the x99 boards and now it's Z170 and skylake, well it's back to reading, need to find out what that will bring to the table. The funny part, my X58 that i put a 5650 in it is still kicking butt... Man that was a good setup, still valid 5 years later.
 
Really liked the Asus ROG Hero board in my Haswell system. Think I may go with the same just on past experience.
 
Now I just need to find a Z170 ITX/mATX with a 2-pin temperature probe input so I can monitor my water loop temperature like on my x58 Asus Rampage III GENE. Hopefully tomorrow some better info will be released on the manufacturer's websites.
 
Will they have value type of MB (under $80) for general consumers soon after the launch of Skylake?
 
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