Overclocking a 6600K

[Jcastria]

So I bought a 6600K somewhat recently and want to push a little more power out of it, yet i have a super budget board that cant overclock, an H110M. What motherboard can i buy thatll let me overclock my CPU, looks somewhat decent, and wont kill me on price?

[davyre89]

Any Z170 chipset is fine.

[Jcastria]

So something like this will work? https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-2-Way-DualBIOS-Motherboards-GA-Z170XP-SLI/dp/B012AQGL4A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510546670&sr=8-2&keywords=z170&dpID=51ZV-fQ2O7L&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch&th=1

[sazrocks]

What cooler and PSU do you have?

[Jcastria]

A 650W something from Corsair and an H75 AIO Corsair cooler

[WebPlayz]

17 minutes ago, Jcastria said:

So I bought a 6600K somewhat recently and want to push a little more power out of it, yet i have a super budget board that cant overclock, an H110M. What motherboard can i buy thatll let me overclock my CPU, looks somewhat decent, and wont kill me on price?

https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Intel-6Gbit-Motherboards-GA-Z170X-Gaming/dp/B012IBPJ6I/ref=sr_1_8?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1510547485&sr=1-8&keywords=z170 

 

I would get this as the VRM Cools very nicely. Dual bios. And if great for overclocking. 

[Egg-Roll]

I find it odd gigabyte boards are continuously on sale... While mine have caused issues they have held strong once all sorted.

 

1 hour ago, Jcastria said:

So something like this will work? https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-2-Way-DualBIOS-Motherboards-GA-Z170XP-SLI/dp/B012AQGL4A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510546670&sr=8-2&keywords=z170&dpID=51ZV-fQ2O7L&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch&th=1

Those pci-e ports are not reinforced, which means large cards "could" break/stress them.

 

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Z270-SLI-Motherboard-PLUS/dp/B01MR32I8L/ It's mildly cheaper than the gigabytes but not so cheap i would worry about quality issues. It lacks dual bios and "maybe" a few extras that GB has. According to MSI's site it has the EZ Debug LED, no idea where maybe by the RAM. It also supports the soon dead crossfire as well the should be killed too SLI.

 

I own the M5 from MSI due to the issues my last z board gave from gigabyte (and a few headaches from my P4 setup as well which was rebuilt/repurposed at the same time/shortly after). The "perks" didn't really make the issues i had worth rebuying their products again, also one of the 2 had bent pins... Plus my 640 also gave minor issues (fan) also from GB...

 

Oh you were too vague in your board requirements... you could actually get a $80 board with 3 PCI-e slots and no real room for anything else, but I'm assuming you want some expansion room.

$80 - https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GA-Z270P-D3-LGA1151-Crossfire-Motherboard/dp/B01N2V0AHI/

Edited November 13, 2017 by Egg-Roll
Missed 2 PCI-e slots on last link