Best motherboard

[SamawatAhsan]

Best motherboard around 80$ 

[NinjaJc01]

4 minutes ago, SamawatAhsan said:

Best motherboard around 80$ 

What socket? What form factor?

[Guest]

Best motherboard can only be

 

Gigabyte Z170 GA UD3 Ultra for 150 dollar

 

Gigabyte Z170X Designaire for 200 dollars

 

What is your cpu? What is the socket? What form factor do you need? What color? How many PCI E slots? How many RAM slots? Max amount of RAM needed? Wifi or no? 

[SamawatAhsan]

B150 socket , ATX and black and red combi would be nice (optional) , i5 6500 

[mariushm]

B150 is a chipset , the socket is LGA1151

 

See comparison between chipsets here : https://rog.asus.com/articles/maximus-motherboards/whats-the-difference-between-z170-h170-b150-and-h110-chipset-motherboards/

 

80$ is kind of low for this chipset, you'd pretty much get the same features onboard as motherboards with a H110 chipset for example.

H110 is meant to be used on motherboards with 2 memory slots and b150 on boards with up to 4 but at 80$ most boards will have only two slots anyway.

H110 also has only 6 pci-e v2.0 lanes coming from chipset compared to 8 pci-e v3.0 lanes on b150 but at 80$ b150 boards won't have that many onboard devices to use 8 lanes and they'll most likely use older chips which are only capable of pci-e v2.0 anyway (or don't benefit from having pci-e v3.0 slots)

besides these, the only other changes are 2 less usb 3.0 ports and two less SATA ports (you only have 4 sata ports on h110 based boards). But seriously, if your budget for a motherboard is 80$ you won't buy more than 3 or 4 hard drives so it won't matter.

 

For example, have a look at a 75$  GIGABYTE GA-H110M-S2HP : https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-LGA1151-Intel-Motherboard-GA-H110M-S2HP/dp/B01717V8XC/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1476205162&sr=1-1&keywords=GIGABYTE+GA-H110M-S2HP

it's all nice black one color, ddr4, 5.1 good sound, extra usb 3 headers on board, extra usb 2 headers  ... somewhat lacking usb 2 ports on the back plate but it makes up for it with usb 3.1 type a and type c connectors on the back, which you probably won't find on <80$ b150 based motherboards.

 

or there's als MSI H110M Grenade, which is black with a few streaks of white and a touch of red on the chipset: https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Skylake-Motherboard-H110M-GRENADE/dp/B01JH20CMM/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1476205525&sr=1-1&keywords=MSI%2BH110M%2BGRENADE&th=1

Same story, good quality onboard components but you also get usb 3.1 and you also get a m.2 connector and a few more usb ports on the back (m.2 and extra usb compared to the gigabyte model that's only a couple of dollars less.