Good Z170 Board

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Looking to build a high end Z170 system and was wondering what recommendations do you have. My budget for the Mobo is 200$ish max. Also I have looked at all the high end boards and they seem way to "colorful" if you get my drift is there a rather conservative option for the high end stuff. Will be doing high overclocks on a 6600k. ATX board please

Thanks 

[Lays]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128840

 

What about this? pretty neutral color scheme

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128840

 

What about this? pretty neutral color scheme

That looks like it might work. Will I be sacrificing any OC performance if i went with this instead of like a rog board? Also is there any news on the Asus-WS board?

[Avalen]

How about the MSI Krait? White and black is pretty neutral.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130868

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How about the MSI Krait? White and black is pretty neutral.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130868

I have looked at that one but, The white is a bit much because I am putting it in a black case with a rgb nzxt x61 cooler and a reference gtx 970 so i am looking for a pretty much black board. I cant stand a bad looking system so thats why i am looking for a black board.

Thanks

[Lays]

That looks like it might work. Will I be sacrificing any OC performance if i went with this instead of like a rog board? Also is there any news on the Asus-WS board?

 

 

The ROG boards are great and have wonderful BIOS, the only thing better right now for diehard overclocking is the Asrock OC Formula, overclocking on the board is great, especially memory overclocking.  People are hitting 4000 mhz CL11 on that board with DDR4, absolutely insane.  ( On the Asrock board)

 

I don't think you'll lose to much OC performance unless you are planning on pushing the CPU & Cpu cache as well as the memory super super hard.  The board I linked should easily handle 4.5+ ghz no problem, it just may take slightly more voltage to be stable on that board vs the OC Formula or ROG lineup.

 

(IE: 4.5 ghz may be perfectly fine on the OC Formula at 1.25v, and the Gigabyte board may need 1.26-1.265v)

[mattebad]

Go for the Z170-a! It has all the features that the Z170 Deluxe has minus a few connectors, and two heatsinks. It's $169.99 in the U.S. and well worth the price over its competitors. I've pushed my 6600k to 1.5v by accident while overclocking and it managed to stay stable for the entire stress test (2 hours of realbench). This thing is a beast and everyone who has reviewed it has loved it.

 

It has less white than the MSI Krait and isn't too overpowering in terms of your color scheme.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132566

http://techreport.com/review/28737/asus-z170-a-motherboard-reviewed

http://www.overclockers.com/asus-z170-motherboard-review/

 

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm running a i5-6600k stable at 4.75ghz @1.41v with 16GB PNY Anarchy 3200mhz Ram

[Avalen]

I have looked at that one but, The white is a bit much because I am putting it in a black case with a rgb nzxt x61 cooler and a reference gtx 970 so i am looking for a pretty much black board. I cant stand a bad looking system so thats why i am looking for a black board.

Thanks

 

Well this one is the most black I've seen on Z170 under $200.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188178

 

EVGA motherboards are reliable as far as I know, some of them had some design oversights as I recall though. Nothing affecting performance. As for the OC performance you won't really lose out on much by opting for a cheaper board on Intel as long as you get one with the OC capable chipset.

[Lays]

Well this one is the most black I've seen on Z170 under $200.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188178

 

EVGA motherboards are reliable as far as I know, some of them had some design oversights as I recall though. Nothing affecting performance. As for the OC performance you won't really lose out on much by opting for a cheaper board on Intel as long as you get one with the OC capable chipset.

 

 

The only thing I've ever really heard people complain about EVGA's boards is just the BIOS being somewhat buggy and annoying sometimes.  Mostly that other companies have better BIOS implementation and BIOS usability.  Although recently they have come a really long way vs how their old boards were.

Also about the "OC performance" stuff, now that FIVR is gone, I reckon good boards will start helping OC's a bit again like before z87.   ( Although nothing super magical, a few mhz here and there. )   The only thing I see the high end boards pulling away in is memory OC'ing whilst having max'd out CPU clocks, but this doesn't matter to the average gamer at all, only the extreme-ists. 

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Alright thanks gentlemen. The EVGA board looks like a leader at this point (I completely forgot about them). The Asus A board looks good I would just remove the IO shield.

Thanks