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RAM capacity, both in number of slots and max RAM. Scour the reviews for user reports about RAM compatibility or issues. If you have any current PCI cards, check to make sure the mobo will support it. Chipset types and versions are the important part though. Especially the Northbridge. This has a Z170, which is currently the best you can get. The Z170 is great for overclocking by the way, even though you're not interested. But the jump from say a Z87 Northbridge to Z170 is pretty big. You're getting more PCIe lanes to work with, faster PCIe lanes, more SATA channels, more USB3 ports, etc. The next generation is just right around the corner though. Releasing next month. The Intel Kaby Lake chips. Those will be 270/250 chipsets. And as of now, it looks to be another big performance boost. If you're interested, take a look here at the comparisons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...psets#LGA_1151 Not sure what the differences are between the ones you're looking at. But usually that's function specific stuff that's mostly meaningless. If you don't know what the feature is, just ask.
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Dammit Fish, why'd you have to tell me about new chipsets coming from Intel? I am having a hard enough time knowing the AMD ZEN is coming in Q217.. **EDIT**CNET doesn't think KabyLake will be that much of an improvement at all over SkyLake. That makes me feel better.
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Vail, I'd go with the 6600K over the 6600. Sounds like you're going to push the limits with VR, might as well overclock your CPU. You can only overclock with the K versions.
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That GTX 1080 is going to go a long way, man. This is going to be a beast comp regardless.
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I was avoiding the K as I didn't want my son to frazzle the cpu in an overclocking gone wrong but I made this post to ask for advice and I'm going to take yours. Might as well have the capability for down the road. Thank you for the advice.
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Good feedback on the case, glad to hear it.
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Kablaam! 15 Minute water cooling. It looks cooler than some massive heatsink on your MoBo and saves a ton of space.
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He'll do 10 minutes worth of reading/youtube watching (if needed) and be good to go.
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Well we got both builds done this weekend. It was pretty cool. There were a couple of instances where if we wouldn't have had the engineers there to help us we wouldn't have known what to do. Thanks to you who gave suggestions and input.
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