B150 Motherboards

[Realillusion222]

Hello,

I'm looking at building a new gaming PC on a relatively modest budget, and was wondering whether there are any major downsides to the B150 chipset.

I would like to stay clear of H110 as I would like 4 ram slots and the 64gb max RAM capacity, whilst Z170 boards are out of my price range and I don't intend to overclock.

Are there any important features missing from the B150? And would anyone be able to recommend me a decent board for under £80?

Cheers.

 

[lee32uk]

The Z170 chipset has support for SLI (On certain boards) and will probably have extra USB/SATA ports etc over B150.

This article an Asus website shows the differences:

https://rog.asus.com/articles/maxim...z170-h170-b150-and-h110-chipset-motherboards/


This Asus board should be good for your needs:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus B150M-A/M.2 Intel B150 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £69.95

Total: £78.65
(includes shipping: £8.70)
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[pastymuncher]

Other downsides are the lack of overclocking and memory speed is limited to 2133mhz.