Best LGA 1150 and 1151 motherboard for my budget

[Bruni959]

I am building a new computer as an upgrade from my PC that I bought in 2013 as a newegg shellshocker deal. I am looking to spend under $150 USD, but if the motherboard has enough features then I am willing to spend up to $170 USD. I'm looking to overclock my processor but have never done it so I want a very solid motherboard that won't die on me. Also if an I5 6600K along with a LGA 1151 socket mobo isn't very much more expensive then I would be willing to cough up the money for one of those. Any suggestions? I would also prefer if it had a red and black color scheme but that isn't at the top of my priority list

 

Parts: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gMJkYJ

[Enderman]

asus z97-a or z170-a

[Stardar1]

i like Gigabyte Gaming 5 boards, and both fit in that budget (Z97/Z170)

[Stardar1]

i like Gigabyte Gaming 5 boards, and both fit in that budget (Z97/Z170)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz170xgaming5

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz97xgaming5

[Stardar1]

also, i know it's not related to topic, but R9 390 is better than the GTX 970 at the same price

[ThinkWithPortals]

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Today, most motherboards are very solid and they don't affect performance at all. My advice would be to pick the cheapest one that has all the features that matter to you and looks good. ASUS, ASRock, MSI and Gigabyte generally make very solid boards, I prefer ASUS and Gigabyte.

 

My personal preference for a black/red board with your specs would be the ASUS Z97 Pro Gaming/ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming. Asus boards are bery solid and so are these boards, both for overclocking and general performance.

[Bruni959]

also, i know it's not related to topic, but R9 390 is better than the GTX 970 at the same price

screw AMD gpus man, I was looking into that but it does not offer a big enough performance jump for me to buy that over the 970

[Bruni959]

Today, most motherboards are very solid and they don't affect performance at all. My advice would be to pick the cheapest one that has all the features that matter to you and looks good. ASUS, ASRock, MSI and Gigabyte generally make very solid boards, I prefer ASUS and Gigabyte.

 

My personal preference for a black/red board with your specs would be the ASUS Z97 Pro Gaming/ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming. Asus boards are bery solid and so are these boards, both for overclocking and general performance.

what about MSI? like the gaming 5 board that I have in the pcpartpicker. I looked at the reviews and they were all good but I want to find other options in case there is a good board that is on sale either black friday or cyber monday.

[iamdrinster]

Let me break it down for you, if you gonna buy it all from scratch and you are in a tight budget then that build is fine, with a little bit of overclocking you can run games fine. But if you will notice there is a little difference between haswell processors and Skylake processors and so the Mobos, what will kill you is actually the ddr4 memory which is kinda expensive as of right now so its really up to your budget, as for me I was almost bought a haswell base processor and mobo but as I browse the pricing I noticed there is a little much difference in price. so the verdict is

 

if its a newly build pc and gonna buy all of em from scratch and have few extra bucks then go for Skylake

 

but if you are in tight budget and cant squeeze more and will be reusing memory such as DDR3 then go for your haswell