Cheap H110 mobo performance vs gaming mobos

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I have an i5-6600 (non-k) that I'm choosing a mobo for. I'm looking at the Gigabyte H110M-A and the Asrock H170 Performance (both listed below). Will there be any actual performance difference between the two? The H170 has things like gold contact in pcie-x16/DIMMS and more heatsinks, but does it matter for performance? I'm not worried about lack of ports/connections, just performance.

One reason I was looking at the H110 is that there is recent news on BCLK overclocking for locked Skylake cpus. Potentially, I could swap out a cheap H110 for BCLK oc mobo if they get it sorted in a few months. Some guidance would be much appreciated.

Gigabyte H110 ($42): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128873&cm_re=GA-H110M-A-_-13-128-873-_-Product


Asrock H170 ($110): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157638&cm_re=h170_performance-_-13-157-638-_-Product

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Go with the H170.

 

[rebate]

Go with the H170.

What do you make of the BCLK overclocking? Guy associated with Asus is claiming a BCLK oc of 30% performance on air cooling for the 6600.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Hard to say if that's true , 30%?

 

[rebate]

Hard to say if that's true , 30%?

Yes, I was reading about it yesterday in this article. I recalled slightly incorrectly, it was Asrock and a 30% increase in clock speed. I wouldn't try anything beyond 10%, but this sounds very interesting.

It states: "ASRock forwarded me images saying that on their Z170 OC Formula, they can successfully adjust the base clock of the Pentium G4400 by 20+%, the Core i3-6300T by 20% and the i5-6600 by over 30%. I was told that they will be rolling out a BIOS update to a large number of their motherboards after internal validation has been carried out and this should give a slow trickle of BIOS updates over the next week or so.

I should point out specifically that ASRock states that their results (20-30% OC) were all done on air cooling."

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Interesting thanks for the info.

 

[rebate]

Interesting thanks for the info.

I must ask an expert like you about this. Will a H110 motherboard limit any performance in gaming or applications?

 

[GoodGamingPC]

I'm pretty keen to talk more about this as well. Looking at the specs for the Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2H the layout seems to allow for a great gaming configuration without hitting board caused issues, the mobo only has slots for 2x ram so we look good on the dimms per channel limitation and with 1x16 PCie 3.0 for our graphics card we also have the 2x PCie 2.0 ready for adding our wireless and BT internal kit or similar. Storage wise we have 4x SATA and we could use this for 1x DVD 1x SSD 1x HDD with 1 left spare.

Fans wise however there could be an issue, please note there is only 1x CPU and 1x System Fan header (so really just one header for case fans) We can work with this by selecting a chassis with a fan controller built in (maybe Deepcool Storm Castle) or maybe adding something like the BitFenix Recon Fan controller.

Base clock OC wise I will wait and see, though a 30% gain in performance would be nice I don't recall the i5-6600 hitting issues in games I've tested.

Here is the base build on PCpartpicker (please note, I've not selected a chassis) = http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/p/tzXHdC

I suspect the performance would not change between the H110 and H170 motherboard with this configuration but please do correct me if I'm wrong. If no-one knows for sure I'll build both to check it out as I'm pretty interested myself.

Interesting thanks for the info.

I must ask an expert like you about this. Will a H110 motherboard limit any performance in gaming or applications?