Can motherboard be a bottleneck?

[dotwithoutcom]

I'm a below average gamer & not a big fan of overclocking. More often I work in Photoshop. I'm trying to build a new PC.

i5 6500, 16GB ram, Samsung 840 evo SSD, thermaltek 550w
GPU: AMD 380 4GB from gigabyte

Now, if I go for a B150 mobo(Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7) , will that be a bottleneck?
or I have to use z170 based gaming mobo to get the full potential of AMD 380.

[i've figured out- I don’t need those extra connectivity that z170 offers]
 

[HumbleMobo]

I'm a below average gamer & not a big fan of overclocking. More often I work in Photoshop. I'm trying to build a new PC.

i5 6500, 16GB ram, Samsung 840 evo SSD, thermaltek 550w

GPU: AMD 380 4GB from gigabyte

Now, if I go for a B150 mobo(Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7) , will that be a bottleneck?

or I have to use z170 based gaming mobo to get the full potential of AMD 380.

[i've figured out- I don’t need those extra connectivity that z170 offers]

 

Nope

[TheRandomness]

No, it won't bottleneck. Just saying, but you should change out the PSU for something from the EVGA GS/G2 series or any from XFX, Seasonic or Superflower.

[Overkilled]

I wouldnt get a b150 but its not really a bottleneck for a non k cpu

[Boink]

Motherboards are not a bottleneck to performance, but they can restrict future expansion. Things like SLI/Crossfire, M.2 support, additional RAM slots, overclocking support, and more are things that you should be looking for in a new motherboard.

[HumbleMobo]

I'm a below average gamer & not a big fan of overclocking. More often I work in Photoshop. I'm trying to build a new PC.

i5 6500, 16GB ram, Samsung 840 evo SSD, thermaltek 550w

GPU: AMD 380 4GB from gigabyte

Now, if I go for a B150 mobo(Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7) , will that be a bottleneck?

or I have to use z170 based gaming mobo to get the full potential of AMD 380.

[i've figured out- I don’t need those extra connectivity that z170 offers]

 

I mean if anything it could, theoretically, be considered a bottle neck if it makes it harder for you to over clock but a sniper board should do you just fine.  Get MSI after burner and you can put a 380 through a lot but not much.  They are known for low OC potential.

[Senzelian]

Just saying, but you should change out the PSU for something from the EVGA GS/G2 series or any from XFX, Seasonic or Superflower.

Why?

[LarsReviews]

Maybe not this mobo, but they can actually be a little bottleneck. For example the msi sli kraken(not sure if that was the name) performance bad in sli. Another example would when I went from z87 to z97 and got a little gpu performance boost. Both system were fresh installed and had the same hardware.

[TheRandomness]

Why?

I should've asked about the specific PSU model.

[Senzelian]

I should've asked about the specific PSU model.

Yup, thank you. 

[Godlygamer23]

While motherboards won't produce any noticeable performance differences, motherboards can increase or decrease performance of parts.

[BrightCandle]

The B150 has everything you need and its going to perform the same as a Z170, its probably a harvested Z170 die where some of the parts were disabled due to a fault in the original chip (a common thing with silicon). Its not a problem, if you don't want those USB 3.1 slots and PCI 8x/8x (this one is fixed to 16x/4x) and such there is no point paying for them.

[incarnate]

Yes a motherboard can become a bottleneck source.... But that takes such a long time that it isn't worth considering. For example, a board that uses ide connections for drives would bottleneck a system.... But then again those boards went extinct over a decade ago.

So yeah, any new motherboard you get will not bottleneck anything for quite some time.... Unless you put your graphics card in a pcie 2.0 4x slot

[Islam Ghunym]

I know this is an old topic but just because the answer is not true, actually the motherboard is the main driver of your system and it can surely cause a bottleneck if it is not good in providing good comunication between parts or driving it in a bad way especialy when we are talking about the latest CPUs generations of intel, so I hope this will give better understanding for the state.

[ch3w2oy]

I don't know about bottleneck, but a better motherboard can definitely push your components further. For example, I went from b450 strix to x470 strix to x470 crosshair. Saw a performance bump each upgrade.