ASRock Fatal1ty Gaming E3V5 Compatible i7?

I have used an i5 6600k in mine without any issues. I can't say for sure about the i7 but I would be very surprised if it does not work given the only difference between the i5 and the i7 is frequency and hyperthreading. 

Edited by Xaltar - 15 Oct 2016 at 10:53pm

Xaltar wrote: I have used an i5 6600k in mine without any issues. I can't say for sure about the i7 but I would be very surprised if it does not work given the only difference between the i5 and the i7 is frequency and hyperthreading.  The H170 Performance/Hyper is another good choice of board if you are reluctant to go for the E3V5 Performance/OC. I have used both boards and they both work very well, the E3V5 is nice in that you can upgrade to a Xeon CPU down the line which tends to be cheaper than equivalent i7/i5 solutions but you already have an i7 so that largely renders it moot. The H170 Performance/Hyper is a more feature rich option with most of the same functionality as much more expensive boards. As I said, both have worked well for me but in your situation the H170 would probably be the better choice.

Are you able to over clock with the CPU core multipliers on the Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC?

churchie73 wrote: Thanks for the prompt replies, makes me want to stick with AsRock knowing the great community here.  My main reason for looking at the board is the feature set and the fact that this board provides everything i would need for what i feel is a solid price. I don't need onboard video so i can put that $50 or so into my video card. Before i pull the trigger i will look at some H170 boards so thanks for the tip.

Thanks, but we may not be done yet, apparently.

I'm sorry if I'm wrong about this, but it seems you are not very familiar with Intel processors, chipsets, and the restrictions Intel imposes on over clocking. None of that exists in AMD systems.

The only Intel mother boards that allow over clocking by changing the CPU multiplier are boards that have a 'Z' chipset. For a Skylake processor like yours, that is only Z170 chipset boards.

That means you cannot over clock on an H170 chipset board. It must be a Z170 board.

You said you have a Skylake i7 CPU, but you did not include the model. It must be an i7-6700K CPU, or you cannot over clock it by changing the core multipliers. That is the only Skylake i7 CPU that can be over clocked.

So to over clock with core multipliers with a Skylake system, you must have both a Z170 chipset board, and a 'K' model processor.

There is the i7-6700, which is not the 'K' model, and cannot be over clocked. Which i7 do you have, check here:

http://ark.intel.com/products/family/88392/6th-Generation-Intel-Core-i7-Processors#@Desktop

I'm worried there might be some confusion here, since if this is all new to anyone, it can be confusing. Actually there are only two Skylake processors that can be over clocked via the core multiplier, the i7-6700K and the i5-6600K.

Another detail, the "onboard video" for any Intel system released since 2011, has the graphics processing cores built into the processor itself. The mother board just supplies the video cable connections.

Not all Intel processors include "integrated graphics" as it is called, but all current Skylake i5 and i7 processors have integrated graphics, including the 'K' models.

It's amazing the amount of detail that exists about PC hardware, and this is really the most basic stuff! It's also amazing I remember it all.

churchie73 wrote: thanks parsec, i really appreciate your help. i understand overclocking quite well but was unaware of the limits with the H170 and C232 chipsets, so thank you for that tip. i ended up going with the Z170 chipset for that very reason (since i have a K Skylake :) )

Thanks, and I'm glad you have a 'K' CPU! You'll be fine with a Z170 board for over clocking.

The "limits" exist thanks to Intel's rules (laws is more appropriate ) about which processors and chipsets allow over clocking. The limits are 99% artificially imposed by Intel, they choose to do it that way.

It's been this way since Intel released their Sandy Bridge processors in 2011. That changed over clocking on Intel systems forever, which remains that way today, and is unlikely to ever change. Those rules don't exist in AMD land.

But AMD's wide open over clock any processor on any board, has its drawbacks too.

Are there any other features you want to use, like virtualization? Intel limits that capability on platforms that can OC.