i7-6700K with Windows 7?

[Melvis]

Yes, but that's covering the peeps who bought their PCs in BestBuy or Walmart or the CFO who buys exclusively from Dell.... In other words ... 2% of this forum's audience.

In 25 years of PC Building, well over 95% select today's equivalent of the 8600k/8700k and Z series MoBos. Even when not overclocking, will recommend Z seroies borads because to save money with a B or H series board, you are going to get a board with substandard LAN / Audio parts. When you start climbing the price rungs to get those features, I have found, historically, that you are in the same price range as Z series boards which throw in more PCIe lanes and the SLI / CF option too.

For example, going to newegg and looking at MSI's lineup of H370 and Z370 for boards with ALC1220

H370 Gaming Pro Carbon is $139
Z370 SLI Plus is $136

For the $3 savings ....

DDR Speed support goes from 2666 to 4000
H370s supports only x16/x4
Support for overclocking if and when one wants to use it
Faster boost clock.

So the build cost comes down to only the $17 difference for the 8700 and 8700 K series CPU.

We get the 4 advantages listed above for a total of $14

Well no not exactly and if your only covering "this" forums audience then you have already made a mistake. There are what? 75000+ on this forum which is sweet stuff all compared to how many people actually have a computer, only focusing here and not the real world is just silly. Heck I have plenty of mates, LAN friends, online gamers in the hundreds and I can tell you right now out of all these people including the clients I build PC's for the percentage that actually OC there systems is sweet F all, honestly off the top of my head I can think of maybe 3. Most just want it to WORK they dont care about OC or anything like that, they just want the performance they need without any extra stuffing around. In all the yrs I have been building PC's no one even asks about OC ing potential, heck the highest CPU I have ever needed to put into a clients PC is a i7 6700 or a Ryzen 5 2600, they do the job without fuss and at a lower price then a K or X model. No one here as the money to buy the top end models in the first place its just out of the majority of peoples hands, just how it is.

 

[RealNeil]

I imagine that by now, the OP has his shiny new PC up and running.
How does it perform for you?
Do you like it?