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Been trying to figure out a best buy skylake.

Assuming a highly cost effective i3 6100 (125 euro), and single gpu it seems the H110 (60euros) is sufficient, the lack of HSIO lanes look worrying but as far as I can tella basic system with an SSD plus HD isn't going to have problems.

Any one got an opinion on that?





My 2500k is at 4.3 and RAM is 2133....

Somehow I think you would be dissapointed with the outcome and performance of the new build, in terms of not significant change in overall 'feeling'.

Rather save few months if you must and get something better than dual core and entry level board.

Dont get me wrong it will work nice and snappy I am just not sure how much would that be better actually to approve the cash fork out. Sure it would be new and waranty and all, but still, I have reserves.

It's for my kid, I've sold a C2D mobo/CPU here and can replace with that for the same price, its only getting a 6870 GPU anyway....

I'm sticking with my 2500k/970 for a while yet.

Really trying to check if it has enough lanes, you know what I think about mobos, just get what features, lanes or connections you need. Spending 100,s on a gaming board isn't going to get any more FPS.