ASUS Z170 P

[Lord Nicoll]

What's with the Z170 P from asus, sure it's nice they've got a really well priced z170 board, but that's it, it doesn't make sense. I doubt it could hold a really high overclock, and the price group means that the extra cost of a k SKU Intel CPU means nobody buying this would consider them, this board, looking at it, the PCB itself is kinda thin, the VRM isn't the strongest, and from only 10 minutes of testing seemed to get kinda hot on an i5-6400. Does anyone else share these feelings about this, and other, bottom tier-ish Z170 boards?

 

 

[Wolly9102]

i've got the k- version of this board. I've got my 6600K overclockt to 4,4 ghz and don't have an problems at all

[Lord Nicoll]

24 minutes ago, Arjan W said:

i've got the k- version of this board. I've got my 6600K overclockt to 4,4 ghz and don't have an problems at all

4.4 isn't the highest that Skylake can do, but it's average. I run my boards 24/7 at 100%, so I don't really overclock, but I know my Maximus VIII Formula could probably stand up to that a lot more, but it does cost almost 4x as much as that board/

[Wolly9102]

5 hours ago, Lord Nicoll said:

4.4 isn't the highest that Skylake can do, but it's average. I run my boards 24/7 at 100%, so I don't really overclock, but I know my Maximus VIII Formula could probably stand up to that a lot more, but it does cost almost 4x as much as that board/

yeah. But the build quality is better on your board and also has more features. so you pay a premium for that. But my Z170K board isn't excacly low-tier Z170 either. It's has USB-C and 3.1 10 gb/s ports. but it's not my orginal board. I first had/have an Asrock Fatailty gaming K6. But this Arrived DOA. but i would love to use it because it has much better power phases for the cpu.

[Lord Nicoll]

17 hours ago, Arjan W said:

yeah. But the build quality is better on your board and also has more features. so you pay a premium for that. But my Z170K board isn't excacly low-tier Z170 either. It's has USB-C and 3.1 10 gb/s ports. but it's not my orginal board. I first had/have an Asrock Fatailty gaming K6. But this Arrived DOA. but i would love to use it because it has much better power phases for the cpu.

Yeah, the Z170 P does have USB type C but it's 3 5Gb/s, it is a vary bare I/O, I would rather eat a single packet of noodles a day for a month than use it.