ASUS Z170-E Motherboard Enhanced5X Protection with high-quality capacitors, MOSFETs, and a long-lasting design. 2 cores and 4 threads with abase clock speed of 3.7 GHz. Ideal for budget-conscious builds without sacrificing quality and speed.
I've been using the board for 4 days. Upon arrival, it looked otherwise new with no immediate evidence of use except the CPU plastic cover was in the materials pouch. The board is fully functional (i5-6400K installed). I had to put two brands of same-spec'd RAM like this, A, B, B, A from left to right. To get it to boot. I updated BIOS after that and might try to move RAM now, but I don't care.
I've gone through two other boards for Sky/kaby lake boards. First was an ASRock (never again, terrible quality, BIOS and reliability). Second was an MSI (two boards started the same way, worked well, terribly limited and sometimes glitchy BIOS, then they randomly fail 2-3 years later), so I'll probably avoid them in the future.
So I knew my choices would have to be an ASUS or GIGABYTE board, but I'm tired of paying 150 bucks for low-end boards. THIS is the kind of deal you want if you have a Skylake or Kaby Lake processor. Good hardware, more features there, and the BIOS has just enough options to get me by (would you know this is the first of the three 1151 boards that I've been able to disable individual SATA drives? Seriously, even OEM PCs have that feature).
If you need an 1151 board, get this one or find one like it. DON'T pay 150 for the cheap boards that will fail in 13 months like clockwork. Find the good ones cheaper.
I was a little weary since this was an open box sale and I think the board was previously used. But it came in its original box with the user's manual, the install CD, the back plate and the cover that goes over the CPU socket for shipping/packaging. I works like new and I have had now issues with it.