Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 vs MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK

[ppppppp]

I'm going to use a I5 6500.

[Imakuni]

Why Z170? You could get a much cheaper H110 / B150 board instead.

[marcoloves360]

Get a asrock motherboard and oc that CPU I have mine at 4.5 ghz

[ppppppp]

9 hours ago, Imakuni said:

Why Z170? You could get a much cheaper H110 / B150 board instead.

These boards are quite cheap, they cost about the same as a lot of h170 boards.

[Imakuni]

31 minutes ago, ppppppp said:

These boards are quite cheap, they cost about the same as a lot of h170 boards.

That's what I said. How about H110 / B150 mobos?

[ppppppp]

3 hours ago, Imakuni said:

That's what I said. How about H110 / B150 mobos?

There not that more expensive as an ordinary h170 and I don't wan't to stoop to a b150

[Imakuni]

32 minutes ago, ppppppp said:

There not that more expensive as an ordinary h170 and I don't wan't to stoop to a b150

I'd rather "stoop" and use my money somewhere else than waste it on features I'll never use. But okay, suit yourself. You are paying for... for....... some random thing, so you might as well just roll a dice and base your purchase on it.

[roughavoc]

He could also want the extra features of out the board, maybe the thought of being able to use faster than 2133 RAM / ability to put a k chip in and OC without having to purchase another motherboard or just more features that are missing from the cheaper H/B boards

Why is it when people ask an A or B question people always jump in with C as an answer.

To actually answer OPs question, they are about the same, get whatever is cheapest or whatever brand you have had a good experience with before.

[GarnetDevil]

8 hours ago, ppppppp said:

These boards are quite cheap, they cost about the same as a lot of h170 boards.

@ImakuniBecause you can still OC non-K chip using Z170

 

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[rtsurfer]

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Edited May 4, 2016 by rtsurfer

[ppppppp]

21 hours ago, Imakuni said:

I'd rather "stoop" and use my money somewhere else than waste it on features I'll never use. But okay, suit yourself. You are paying for... for....... some random thing, so you might as well just roll a dice and base your purchase on it.

Yea i would save like £3

[lukart]

On 5/3/2016 at 8:26 AM, marcoloves360 said:

Get a asrock motherboard and oc that CPU I have mine at 4.5 ghz

This! Their Hyper series all allow you to overclock even with non Z chipset.

[SliceT]

I would stay away from MSI, from my experience I had nothing but troubles. I think they start cutting on quality to compete on pricing the last few years.

I would either go with Gigabyte motherboards, or that Z170M .