Recently, I managed to break a pin off of my motherboards usb 3.0 header. Now, one of the front panel usb 3.0 ports doesn't work.
While I could simply put up with it, I don't want to.
I'd like to either fix it (if that's a possibility) or buy a new motherboard.
My current (and broken) motherboard is the ASRock z170 pro4s. I love this board, im going to miss it. In addition, I'm using the Intel Core i5-6600k with G.Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4-2400 8gb x2 (total of 16gb). My graphics card is a Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290 4GB 512-bit GDDR5 (PCIe 3.0) and I'm using a wireless card TP-Link Archer T6E AC1300 that utilizes a PCIe x1 slot.
While researching this, I have found that intel has since released a 200 series chipset, which is backwards compatible with my skylake. Because the 100 series and 200 series chipset boards are pretty much the same price, I'd like to just buy a 200 series chipset board.
But I've never really been knowledgeable when it comes to upgrades, overclocking, etc. I'm not looking to overclock really (maybe a LITTLE). I'm also not looking to upgrade my whole system--just the motherboard if I can get away with it. One of the things that concerns me is I don't know what the specifications of the boards mean. In particular, will my current parts be compatible? I don't know what "memory standard" means, I don't know what M.2 is. How much should I worry about SATA (I have 2 HDD, 1 SDD, and 1 DVD burner connected via SATA) or SATA-express?
I just purchased and placed three Corsair HD120 RGB fans, as my previous case fans burned out (hence the broken USB header pin during all the rearranging). Should I get a board with an RGB controller? I'm currently using the Corsair Lighting Node Pro to control the color and brightness of the fans, and this requires a USB 2.0 header to operate, so this is something I need to consider as well.
I've been looking at this board here: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157738. Will my memory sticks work with this board? What about my Lighting Node Pro and SATA devices? Is there a comparable board that might be a bit cheaper? or a better board on sale?
Thank you everyone!
While I could simply put up with it, I don't want to.
I'd like to either fix it (if that's a possibility) or buy a new motherboard.
My current (and broken) motherboard is the ASRock z170 pro4s. I love this board, im going to miss it. In addition, I'm using the Intel Core i5-6600k with G.Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4-2400 8gb x2 (total of 16gb). My graphics card is a Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290 4GB 512-bit GDDR5 (PCIe 3.0) and I'm using a wireless card TP-Link Archer T6E AC1300 that utilizes a PCIe x1 slot.
While researching this, I have found that intel has since released a 200 series chipset, which is backwards compatible with my skylake. Because the 100 series and 200 series chipset boards are pretty much the same price, I'd like to just buy a 200 series chipset board.
But I've never really been knowledgeable when it comes to upgrades, overclocking, etc. I'm not looking to overclock really (maybe a LITTLE). I'm also not looking to upgrade my whole system--just the motherboard if I can get away with it. One of the things that concerns me is I don't know what the specifications of the boards mean. In particular, will my current parts be compatible? I don't know what "memory standard" means, I don't know what M.2 is. How much should I worry about SATA (I have 2 HDD, 1 SDD, and 1 DVD burner connected via SATA) or SATA-express?
I just purchased and placed three Corsair HD120 RGB fans, as my previous case fans burned out (hence the broken USB header pin during all the rearranging). Should I get a board with an RGB controller? I'm currently using the Corsair Lighting Node Pro to control the color and brightness of the fans, and this requires a USB 2.0 header to operate, so this is something I need to consider as well.
I've been looking at this board here: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157738. Will my memory sticks work with this board? What about my Lighting Node Pro and SATA devices? Is there a comparable board that might be a bit cheaper? or a better board on sale?
Thank you everyone!