Hello. I plan on building my gaming computer on Pascal's arrival. However, I'm confused about motherboards. What do the Maximus VIII series offer more than other z170 boards? I can't make up my mind on which motherboard to go for. My upcoming build will feature 6700k skylake cpu (1151 socket) and a gtx 1080. I don't care about aesthetics, overclocking or sli. I seek great efficiency. Thank you in advance.
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If you don't care about overclocking get an i7 6700 or even an i5 6500 instead of the 6700K, K SKUs are for people that want to overclock, it's that hard people, if you don't want to overclock nor SLI go with a locked CPU and an H110/B150/H170 motherboard and you're good to go. Want to SLI but don't want to OC? get the cheapest Z170 that can do SLI. Want to OC but don't want to SLI? get the cheapest Z170 motherboard, it may overclock a bit worse than a high-end motherboard and the VRMs will get a bit hotter since VRM cooling isn't that great on lower-end motherboards, but on the end of the day, you're getting about 90% of the overclock you'll get on the highest-end mobo while saving an awful load of money (that is until you start cooling you CPU with LN2 or liquid helium).
Considering what you said, go with an i5 6500 for ~$200, a Gigabyte B150M-D3H for like $100, 16GB of memory which go for $76, a 250GB SSD for $80(?), a 1 or 2TB hard drive depending on your needs which costs $50-$75-ish, a GTX 1080 for a (rumored) $650 (if you can wait a couple months after Pascal releases, you'll get it for ~$500-$550), a CX750M for $106 (forget what everyone has said about the CX series previously, Corsair has released a new revision which is made by CWT, they're pretty damn good, still cost the same as the old revision, but have all Japanese capacitors and better voltage regulation, they perform about the same as the Seasonic S12II which the Antec High Current Gamer lineup is a rebrand of and which, in turn, is slightly better than the EVGA's SuperNova B2 series of PSUs that's very decent even for high-end builds) and an NZXT S340 for $74, that's a great PC that would be able to run games at max settings for the next two years.
Considering what you said, go with an i5 6500 for ~$200, a Gigabyte B150M-D3H for like $100, 16GB of memory which go for $76, a 250GB SSD for $80(?), a 1 or 2TB hard drive depending on your needs which costs $50-$75-ish, a GTX 1080 for a (rumored) $650 (if you can wait a couple months after Pascal releases, you'll get it for ~$500-$550), a CX750M for $106 (forget what everyone has said about the CX series previously, Corsair has released a new revision which is made by CWT, they're pretty damn good, still cost the same as the old revision, but have all Japanese capacitors and better voltage regulation, they perform about the same as the Seasonic S12II which the Antec High Current Gamer lineup is a rebrand of and which, in turn, is slightly better than the EVGA's SuperNova B2 series of PSUs that's very decent even for high-end builds) and an NZXT S340 for $74, that's a great PC that would be able to run games at max settings for the next two years.