Will it bottleneck?

[fenixen]

Im building a new gaming machine and my concerns are about the mobo, I dont know if I should go with the MSi b150 M3 or the MSi H170 M3.

 

The other components.

GTX 1070 Founders Edition

i7 6700

Samsung 750 250gb

Fractal Design 600W

16GB HyperX DDR4 2133MHz

 

The B150 mobo is 20$ cheaper and will set my build at exactly 1300$ (swedish stores) so what do you think, wwill it bottleneck my setup?

 

[SLAYR]

Motherboards won't bottleneck your system, they don't affect performance in any noticable way at all.

[Imakuni]

15 minutes ago, fenixen said:

Im building a new gaming machine and my concerns are about the mobo, I dont know if I should go with the MSi b150 M3 or the MSi H170 M3.

Making it simple, there are only 2 mobos for Skylake: Z170 and the rest. Between "the rest", which includes H110, B150 and H170, there's no real difference. Sure, one might have an extra sata here, perhaps another USB port there, it may look prettier... but as far as performance goes, they are the exact same thing.

 

If both have all the features you want and look good, pick the cheapest.

[SteinerW]

1 minute ago, Thread212 said:

Are u planning on overclocking anything? or Multiple Graphic card?
If u do. then save ur money and go for Z170 motherboard. they are built for overclock and 16pcie lanes is enough for dual Gpu.
If not, then u doing the right thing. buy the b150.

 

and MOBO wont bottleneck anything.

Hes getting the nonK chip. But there are h170 boards that support sli if you ever wanted to do that in the future. if you don't ever plan to do sli, the b150 chipset is fine.

[fenixen]

Im upgrading from my 5 year old i3 2100 with a gtx 960 to something future proof, and since im only doing 1080p gaming this will carry my needs for some years time, haha. well thank all of you for the fast replies, and no. i have not planned any overclocking or multi gpu setup!  

 

best regards, David

[RS2007GOD]

Some things to check are the internal usb headers m.2 slots and fan headers. Not major issues but some boards skimp out on these features and frustrating to find they didnt add that one xtra fan header so now you must go buy a splitter

[Imakuni]

13 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

go for Z170 motherboard. they are built for overclock and 20pcie lanes is enough for dual Gpu or more.

Common misconception there. There are actually 2 sets of PCIe lanes: the direct CPU ones and the chipset ones. THe direct CPU ones, which are used by graphics card are only 16 lanes. And that's regardless of the chipset too: both Z170 and H110 mobos have the exact same 16 lanes count.

 

What's actually different is the number of chipset lanes. In that sense, you are right that Skylake offers 20lanes and that lower chipsets may not make all of them available. Regardless, those aren't used for GPUs and have nothing to with them.

[Imakuni]

7 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

So what are those extra 4 lanes for?

is it for adds on like sound card or nvme?

It's more than only 4 lanes. Z170 has 20 3.0 lanes, whereas Z97, for instance, only had 8 2.0 ones.

 

It's for adds on, yes, but you can have other stuff on a per mobo basis.

[Imakuni]

Just now, Thread212 said:

So when i installed dual gpu. my gpu will runs at x8 per gpu right?

Yes.

1 minute ago, Thread212 said:

So am i only limited to dual gpu? or they will be runs at x4 per gpu at multiple gpu?

Not necessarily. You could throw in a 3rd GPU, but it would use the chipset lanes rather than a direct path to the CPU.