Intel Skylake Z170 Motherboards: A Quick Look at 55+ New Products

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• stylinred - Thursday, December 24, 2015 - link

  I have the mATX board, i like it! my only issues are:
  The pcie x16 is too close to the cpu, when using air cooling, and something large like the Noctua 15, the radiator fins sit right up against the GPU.
  When using the Pci-e x16, the pci-e x1 is blocked and the Sata connections are blocked by GPU's so be sure to install your sata devices first

• ParimalV - Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - link

  I am confused that which of these motherboards have illuminated msi branding on the heatsink like asus rog motherboards have that eyes which can glow on heatsink

• gsuburban - Friday, February 5, 2016 - link

  Not enough SATA 3 ports, only 4, and no display port ?

• mathiash - Sunday, June 26, 2016 - link

  Asrock should always get extra stability tests, especially their ITX boards. People are reporting nothing but trouble with these.

• gsuburban - Saturday, July 16, 2016 - link

  My only beef with the new M.2 tech motherboards is; when using an M.2 drive, it disables a SATA 3 port. On some other brands, one M.2 drive will disable 2 SATA 3 ports. Either the chipset or the board designers need to configure to allow all ports to function. Many users, have several HDD's for storing their documents (user account) on them vs. on the M.2 plus back up needs such as images and file backups.
  
  I'm still wondering why the current boards bother with the 15-D video connector and why some don't use an HDMI video port while opting for the display port. HDMI is the future for anyone who will be looking for BluRay full audio functionality and HDMI is the only interface that supports it via the HDMI v2.0 and HDCP v2.2