ASUS motherboard opinion/thoughts?

[casilladelucas]

hey guys,im debating to get one of these three motherboards,has anyone tried one of more of them? what is your take on them?
ASUS Z170M-3 D3
ASUS H170-PLUS D3
ASUS B150-PLUS D3

my criterion of choosing was because they have support for ddr3 and not ddr3l or whatever,and im not willing to make the jump to ddr4

 

[Rogue Leader]

None of those boards support DDR3 any better than any other Skylake motherboard. The memory is controlled by the memory controller in the processor. DDR3L lands within the safe voltage range of that controller. DDR3 does not. According to Intel this can cause damage to the memory controller over time.

I have not yet seen such damage or processor failure happen, but Intel does say it for a reason. Its up to you to decide what to do.

 

[casilladelucas]

None of those boards support DDR3 any better than any other Skylake motherboard. The memory is controlled by the memory controller in the processor. DDR3L lands within the safe voltage range of that controller. DDR3 does not. According to Intel this can cause damage to the memory controller over time.

I have not yet seen such damage or processor failure happen, but Intel does say it for a reason. Its up to you to decide what to do.

what would that mean? should I keep looking for other motheboards? I want to upgrade to a new motherboard so I can also upgrade the processor (while it still supporting ddr3), I heard that up to x generation of processors they do have support but the new ones do not.im not planning on building a state of the art pc,just upgrading a bit. I don't know if im making myself understand

 

[Rogue Leader]

What that means is, while ASUS makes good board you are not limited to those in terms of whether DDR3 will "work". There are NO Skylake boards that are "ok" to run normal DDR3. Intel recommends AGAINST using DDR3 in any form except DDR3L, despite how the guidelines may appear on that board. We have not yet seen a failure happen, but there is a reason they recommend against it.

My suggestion, spend a little more money and buy a DDR4 board and ram, don't use your DDR3 ram.

 

[casilladelucas]

What that means is, while ASUS makes good board you are not limited to those in terms of whether DDR3 will "work". There are NO Skylake boards that are "ok" to run normal DDR3. Intel recommends AGAINST using DDR3 in any form except DDR3L, despite how the guidelines may appear on that board. We have not yet seen a failure happen, but there is a reason they recommend against it.

My suggestion, spend a little more money and buy a DDR4 board and ram, don't use your DDR3 ram.

Now I think I understand what you said, those boards are 1151 socket,is that the problem? should I be looking for another socket? say like 1150? the examples of models are in no shape or form a definitve pre selected thing,I just look'em up and saw it would have fitted my needs.

My plan and current setup (just to being 100% clear) is :
an I3-3220 processor
a gtx 1050 gpu
and 4gb (this week will be 8) of ddr3 memory

Now what I want and plan in the future is
-to buy another motherboard, so I can buy an i5 processor (not quite sure what gen to get (that might be part of the problem) )
-But still having support of the mobo, and the processor of those 8 gb of ddr3

im NOT buying ddr4

 

[Rogue Leader]

Why are you so against buying DDR4?

The problem is Skylake and above are designed for DDR4, they are 1151 socket. You can go 1150 but thats only 1 generation ahead of what you have now. IMO its a waste of money this is no future plan. Also 1150 boards are getting rare now. Still around but not common.

Buying new equipment to tie yourself to DDR3 is a waste.

 

[Paul NZ]

The I3-3220 is 1155. You can't buy a 1156, 1150, or 1151 motherboard and install this on it. It's not compatible with any of them

The only CPU's you can install are 1155 CPU's