Question what m itx motherboard shall i buy for my i5 6500

Mar 12, 2019
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hello dear people from toms hardware. i am planning to down size my pc and have therefore a i5 6500 at hand. i am gonna buy a a fractal design node 202 with noctua fans. and i was wondering which mini itx motherboard would be best to use for this cpu. i might wanna overclock in the future so it would be nice if the motherboard can unlock locked cpu. hope to get a answer soon.
i am using a rx 480 videocard btw.
 
There was some ASROCK Z170 boards that could OC locked CPUs a few years back w/ BCLK settings, and a few other caveats, but I believe Intel stepped in and put a halt to it. Your best bet would be to buy a modern build all together if you wanted to OC as it would require a new board anyways. You could keep your existing RAM, and look into board/CPU combo deals.