My Skylake Up Grade

[Chuffered]

I presently have an i5 1155 2500k  DDR2 16Gb and a Z68X-UD3H-B3 Motherboard with a 7 year old 850W power supply. Running a Gigabyte GTX980 G1. Firmly passes the VR test.

I have another AMD system that I want to build a NAS box out of. Turns out it has no upgrade path. I wanted to just put in the ram and install the NAS but the DDR2 is $400+ for what i need. I can't find any reasonably priced DDR2.

So my options are pay out for the ram or upgrade. Haven't found anyone that has 16Gb of DDR2 chips they want to get rid of.

I don't need overclocking or dual GPU No need for onboard graphics

I do want best onboard audio lots of PCI slots  Lots of USB and SATA i want some upgrade path. 

I have picked this CPU

INTEL® CORE™ I5-6600 3.90GHZ LGA1151 Processor $299.99

Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB 2X8GB 2133MHZ DDR4 Non-ECC DIMM Dual Channel Memory $89.99 I just need a Motherboard GIGABYTE Z170X Gaming 6 LGA 1151 DDR4 PCIEx16 PCIEx8 4PCIEX1 USB 3.1 CrossFire SLI ATX Motherboard $231.85 I have tentatively picked this board. Does anyone know of a board that better meets my needs? This build comes to $631 budget is $700. If I can bring the price down I can buy a power supply. I have an NZXT 550 tower. Should I hand down the power supply and get a new one? The CPU cooler is an H80 liquid cooler. Will I need a new one? thanks everyone for your help. Chuffer   My Rig.

[Moonzy]

10 minutes ago, Chuffered said:

 

dont waste that motherboard on a locked chip

get a cheaper motherboard or an unlocked chip

[Aereldor]

11 minutes ago, Chuffered said:

I presently have an i5 1155 2500k  DDR2 16Gb

The i5 2500k supports DDR2 memory? Also, how the heck did you get 16 gb of the stuff on a 4-slot motherboard?

 

Or are my suspicions correct in that it was a typo.

[Chuffered]

13 hours ago, Moonzy said:

dont waste that motherboard on a locked chip

get a cheaper motherboard or an unlocked chip

Which board meets my needs better? I already figured that out which is why i asked.

[Moonzy]

Just now, Chuffered said:

Which board meets my needs better? I already figured that out which is why i asked.

whichever board that can house w/e you want to put in it without problem

i cant possibly list them all out as theres a ton of cheaper options out there

 

i just said that because normally, the z170 chipset motherboard cost more because the z170 chipset itself cost more

[Chuffered]

13 hours ago, Aereldor said:

The i5 2500k supports DDR2 memory? Also, how the heck did you get 16 gb of the stuff on a 4-slot motherboard?

 

Or are my suspicions correct in that it was a typo.

This is what I have. should have just done this.

[Aereldor]

8 hours ago, Chuffered said:

This is what I have. should have just done this.

DDR3, then. Why not just correct me and say it was a typo?