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Any recommendations for a cheap and reliable micro-ATX Z170 board for light use?
I'd like to OC an i5-6600K some, but don't plan on doing anything extreme. Light gaming, so no SLI. I'm a bit obsessed with making this PC quite, but it looks like the PWM fan features are pretty similar on all the boards I've looked at. Does it just come down to port preferences etc?
So far it's between:
ASRock Z170M Pro4S - $90
ASRock Z170M Extreme4 - $125 (been on sale for $100)
ASUS Z170M-PLUS - $125
comparison
Is the Pro4S good enough and the others overkill? (Mainly just missing type-C port from what I can see). Are any likely to be more reliable? All seem to have their fair share of DOA/fail reviews.. Anything else I should look at?
thanks
I'd like to OC an i5-6600K some, but don't plan on doing anything extreme. Light gaming, so no SLI. I'm a bit obsessed with making this PC quite, but it looks like the PWM fan features are pretty similar on all the boards I've looked at. Does it just come down to port preferences etc?
So far it's between:
ASRock Z170M Pro4S - $90
ASRock Z170M Extreme4 - $125 (been on sale for $100)
ASUS Z170M-PLUS - $125
comparison
Is the Pro4S good enough and the others overkill? (Mainly just missing type-C port from what I can see). Are any likely to be more reliable? All seem to have their fair share of DOA/fail reviews.. Anything else I should look at?
thanks