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This is my first time building a PC and I had trouble understanding some specification on a motherboard. I have been looking at the ASUS Z170I PRO GAMING Mini ITX Intel Motherboard, but the FSB speeds came up as a concern for me. It shows  3.40 GHz (O.C.) - 2.13 GHz   as its speed, which I was wondering if it would bottleneck my i7 6700K CPU?  

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Motherboards can rarely ever bottleneck, if at all. For the most part, FSB barely affects performance.

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16 minutes ago, Scillerraika said:

I was under the impression that the FSB was responsible for communication between utilities and the CPU, which having a lower speed compared to the CPU would affect it.  Thank you for you clarifications (:

I swear I heard FSB somewhere and then

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What you're looking at is the supported RAM speed. From Asus website on the specs for that board:
Memory

2 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR4 3400(O.C.)/3333(O.C.)/3200(O.C.)/3100(O.C.)/3000(O.C.)/2933(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666(O.C.)/2600(O.C.)/2400(O.C.)/2133 MHz Non-ECC, 

Also, current gen Intel Core CPU's don't really have an FSB anymore, unless you count the QPI that links to the southbridge. The memory controller is built into the CPU package and some of the PCIe lanes are connected directly to the CPU.

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