T H A N K Y O U!!!
Reliable as always
And thank YOU as well, looking forward
(but I'm sad that you're tearing the machine apart - shame on you
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ONE THING, guys:
I really hope that our little community will stay alive and that we'll move onto skylake with an Asrock or similar board when the time comes.
I'm not tearing it apart, I'm simply re-purposing it. It will be using the same board and ram, probably a different chassis depending on the outcome of this new bios update request. I will be publishing a build log/guide too if it proves successful.
There are 2 boards to look out for in Asrock's Skylake lineup, depending on your chosen format.
For Matx, I would 100% be going for the
Z170M-Extreme4. It has all the tell-tale signs of another great board and the hardware spec is near perfect.
For Mini ITX, then my choice would be the
Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming ITX AC. The lineup is good for that too. I wouldn't normally opt for a 'gaming' board as I'm not a gamer, but the regular desktop
Z170M-ITX AC simply has too much wrong with it. The Fatal1ty ITX board corrects a lot of that.
I've given Asrock some objective feedback and they are passing it on to their R&D teams, as well as working on the Z87 ITX bios. If they don't get the Z87 working the way I have asked, then plan B will probably be to go for the Fatal1ty gaming board mentioned above.
I've also given them an idea for something to greatly improve the value of the Matx board mentioned above, or at least a second/next generation of it.
As always, Asrock are responding in a very timely fashion and responding well to all of this.
