this board ok?

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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
I've used boards with no VRM cooling before. If you're not overclocking, then I think you'll be fine.

This Z170 board is £110 and has no VRM cooling either:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...1151-ddr4-mini-itx-motherboard-mb-536-gi.html

This has got VRM cooling, but it's £135!
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...1151-ddr4-mini-itx-motherboard-mb-681-as.html

You might be able to find an mATX board with VRM cooling for less, e.g. this one:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...151-ddr4-micro-atx-motherboard-mb-532-gi.html

You'd need to up-size to an mATX case, but the Rajintek Styx I've got is really quite small.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
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mmmmm.. i didnt know it was ddr3, thats a spanner in the works :D
 
On the ITX front, OCUK don't have that many. Competitors might have other boards OCUK don't stock. For example, I know that the Bolton outfit have a couple of Asrock ITX H110/B150 boards that are DDR4.
 
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.
 
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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.
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How would an Athlon II CPU deal with gaming. i was thinking of running an GTX 680.
 
Until last April, I was running an AM3 Athlon X4 640 with a 512MB Geforce 9800GT "Eco-edition" on my spare PC. That got upgraded to a G3258 and R9 280X.

Obviously it didn't handle stuff on very high settings, but it coped fairly well with Crysis and Crysis 2 on mainly medium settings with some on high. Less demanding titles were fine on high settings.

The X4 860K is roughly on a par with the Pentium G3258 from what I recall.

This board is an ITX motherboard that would support the X4 860K. £60 CPU with £70 board.
 
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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.
 
DDR3 and DDR4 doesn't make too much of a difference in games, but DDR4 means you can upgrade in future.
 
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