this board ok?

[P4Clock]

I am looking to build a little itx system to play games on the tv with main system is in use.
This board - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...cket-1151-ddr3-itx-motherboard-mb-664-as.html

If i run that board with an 13 6100(@stock) am i likely to see throttling of the CPU when gaming?

 

[P4Clock]

I wouldn't have thought so, as the i3s tend to draw less power and you're not overclocking. The 6300 is a 51W chip, compared to the 91W 6700K.

The H-series boards tend to have zero VRM cooling though, but with a stock i3 it should be OK.

the lack of VRM cooling was my concern, i know that can throttle a CPU if they overheat.
the 6300 as a stupid low clock speed, i would genuinely think the 6100 will out last it even tho it have 4 cores vs 2 cores and 4 threads.

 

[P4Clock]

the build is going into an Silverstone RVZ01, so itx is max, there is no need for z170 board the case cant support cooling that would be need to overclock.

 

[P4Clock]

In which case, then just go with the H110 board and see what happens. The Z170 boards seem to be the only ITX ones that have VRM heatsinks.

You are aware that it's a DDR3 board though? Both the Z170 boards are DDR4. It depends if you care about the potential issue with DDR3 and Skylake.

mmmmm.. i didnt know it was ddr3, thats a spanner in the works

 

[P4Clock]

yer i have just seen an Asrock ITX H110M DGS

 

[P4Clock]

It all depends on your budget. I had a really good Asrock AM2+ board that served faithfully for 5 years until I upgraded. It had no VRM heatsinks, although I was only running an Athlon II x4 640 on it.

How would an Athlon II CPU deal with gaming. i was thinking of running an GTX 680.

 

[P4Clock]

i think i will stick with 1151 and 6100, i know the 6100 can run fallout on max setting ' 1080 as i have already had one.