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Storage connectivity wise you'll have plenty to work with. You will spot four SATA3 (6 Gbps) ports for your fast SSD storage units and high volume HDD units. Next to that we really recommend you to focus on that M2 slot connector. It's a properly done M.2. slot as it ties to PCI-Express 3.0 at x4 lanes. meaning you could mount NVMe in there. Actually we'll do just that and use a Samsung 950 Pro. This unit will easily reach 2 GB/s reads and 1 GB/s writes. Behold the future of storage units you guys as we're about to go into 6th gear.
A H170 motherboard does not mean you do not get PCI-Express slots, contrary dear Watson. You will het 1x PCI-Express x16 v3.0 slot (PEG, for graphics cards only) and 1x PCI-Express x4 v3.0 slot. mind you that it supports one dual-slot (double-width) graphics cards, however the second PCI-Express slot will be occupied. Again I do need to make a note about the power supply here, the default unit is 300 Watt and only has one 6-pin PEG power connector for graphics. You will need that 500 Watt unit if you go beyond mid-range with a dedicated graphics card. So check what kinf of connectors your graphics card has and what kind of connector these PSUs offer okay ?
This H170 chipset based motherboard comes with Socket LGA 1151 and ONLY supports the sixth generation (Skylake) of Intel Core i7 / i5 / i3, Pentium and Celeron processors. The maximum supported processor power consumption (TDP) = 95W (Core i7 6700). We'll use the Core i5 6600 today. The H series does not support overclocking, so do not bother purchasing a K model processor okay ?
The same with memory, stock 2133 MHz memory will do fine, this 3200 MHz DDR4 kit made the PC non-bootable when we enabled the XMP 2.0 profile in the BIOS. See the memory needs to apply certain multipliers, voltages and other timing registers. The H170 series from Shuttle simply does not allow that.
You can however use four sticks of 1.2 Volts DDR4 memory up-to 16GB each, meaning up-to 64-GB of memory can be installed running in dual-channel mode.
