Best MOBO RAM

[ripper101]

What would be the best micro ATX MOBO and RAM for a i7 6800k that isn't too expensive? What would be better for gaming a i7 6800k or 6700k and would a hyper 212 evo be enough for both CPUs? 

[Armakar]

In general, the 6700k would be better for gaming as most games wouldn't use the extra 2 cores.

I would go from any Z170A motherboard from Gigabyte or MSI.

As for RAM, it doesn't matter that much. That said, I use Gskill ripjaws V series as it's well priced and performs the same as the other brands.

And yup, the 212 evo will be fine for cooling. Don't expect to be able to overclock them very high though.

 

Either way, I would wait for kaby lake if your planning on a new build. It won't be too long and apparently it's as large as a 15% performance increase and clocked .2GHZ higher then previous gens.

[EPPHO]

Any Z170 with DDR4 would be good and any 2400MHz RAM would be good. 212 evo will be enough but you won't be able to overclock too much

[ripper101]

32 minutes ago, Armakar said:

In general, the 6700k would be better for gaming as most games wouldn't use the extra 2 cores.

I would go from any Z170A motherboard from Gigabyte or MSI.

As for RAM, it doesn't matter that much. That said, I use Gskill ripjaws V series as it's well priced and performs the same as the other brands.

And yup, the 212 evo will be fine for cooling. Don't expect to be able to overclock them very high though.

 

Either way, I would wait for kaby lake if your planning on a new build. It won't be too long and apparently it's as large as a 15% performance increase and clocked .2GHZ higher then previous gens.

When is that supposed to come out?

32 minutes ago, frozeNNN said:

Any Z170 with DDR4 would be good and any 2400MHz RAM would be good. 212 evo will be enough but you won't be able to overclock too much

Wouldn't I want the fastest ram I could get get like 3200MHz or is there not much of a difference 

[EPPHO]

Just now, ripper101 said:

When is that supposed to come out?

Wouldn't I want the fastest ram I could get get like 3200MHz or is there not much of a difference 

There is no a big difference. I personally think it's not worth the extra price

[Armakar]

1 hour ago, ripper101 said:

When is that supposed to come out?

Wouldn't I want the fastest ram I could get get like 3200MHz or is there not much of a difference 

Intel said Kaby Lake will come out by the end of the year. If you don't need a PC now, I'd say a 15% performance increase with a higher clockspeed is worth it. 7700k will probally be the same price as the 6700k. Even the 4790k is the same price as the 6700k 2 years later.

 

As for ram speed, doesn't really matter. You won't notice it much, and it doesn't effect FPS atall.

[ripper101]

On 10/22/2016 at 5:31 PM, Armakar said:

Intel said Kaby Lake will come out by the end of the year. If you don't need a PC now, I'd say a 15% performance increase with a higher clockspeed is worth it. 7700k will probally be the same price as the 6700k. Even the 4790k is the same price as the 6700k 2 years later.

 

As for ram speed, doesn't really matter. You won't notice it much, and it doesn't effect FPS atall.

 

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