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14 minutes ago, PhGnomez said:

Is a 6th Gen CPU just simply too old to run on modern 11? 12? generation boards?

Yes. Intel motherboards only really support 2 generations per socket, on some rare cases 3. 6th gen is LGA 1151 version 1 and only works on those first few. 

 

14 minutes ago, PhGnomez said:

I've found the same boards for sale used at the $100 range; but that seems a bit of a silly purchase for now a 7? year old board in used condition.

I don't think you're looking in the right spot for them, just looking up "Z170" on eBay the first three boards are sub-$100, one is down to $63. If you look a little harder I'm sure you could probably find one for as low as $50, this is just me looking for 2 minutes. If you went down to H170 or B150 if you don't want to overclock that would get it even cheaper. 

 

Used boards after ~3 years out of production stop depreciating and hold their price until about 6-7 years old when they start increasing in price because the working ones get more and more rare as ~5 years in is usually when boards start randomly dying out. If this was a year or so from now, $100+ does sound about what I'd expect for them. 

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Hello, months ago I posted here and came to the conclusion that my MSI Krait Gaming board got bricked during a sneaky update.

The current CPU in it is a Intel i5 6600k Skylake 6th gen

I am needing a replacement board and am not finding one as newer ones are not combatable it appears; I don't see the ancient  Skylake technology listed on many LGA 1151 boards.

It still runs casual games just fine; and mainly serves as a media streaming/multi monitor desktop so I was just trying to get it running again without having to upgrade the CPU and board combo.

 

I've found the same boards for sale used at the $100 range; but that seems a bit of a silly purchase for now a 7? year old board in used condition.

I've tried CMOS short to no avail ; I believe  I am replacement stages.

 

Any links to boards and or info as to if  I am greatly overlooking something sifting through these specs of newer boards would be greatly appreciated.

 

Is a 6th Gen CPU just simply too old to run on modern 11? 12? generation boards?

Many thanks in advance from Montana,

Tyler.

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14 minutes ago, PhGnomez said:

Is a 6th Gen CPU just simply too old to run on modern 11? 12? generation boards?

Yes. Intel motherboards only really support 2 generations per socket, on some rare cases 3. 6th gen is LGA 1151 version 1 and only works on those first few. 

 

14 minutes ago, PhGnomez said:

I've found the same boards for sale used at the $100 range; but that seems a bit of a silly purchase for now a 7? year old board in used condition.

I don't think you're looking in the right spot for them, just looking up "Z170" on eBay the first three boards are sub-$100, one is down to $63. If you look a little harder I'm sure you could probably find one for as low as $50, this is just me looking for 2 minutes. If you went down to H170 or B150 if you don't want to overclock that would get it even cheaper. 

 

Used boards after ~3 years out of production stop depreciating and hold their price until about 6-7 years old when they start increasing in price because the working ones get more and more rare as ~5 years in is usually when boards start randomly dying out. If this was a year or so from now, $100+ does sound about what I'd expect for them. 

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Thank you for your input; I've never overclocked it as I never had it throttle on me when I used to play games.

I suppose I didn't know if I was being forced into the used market or what my situation was, thank you for clearing it up. My head was starting to hurt from sifting through forums and youtube videos of buzzwords and misc. jargan that means nothing to me.

 I'll just snag that one for $63; I'm over this headache and have rentals to attend to. 

 

Many thanks again,

 

Tyler.

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