Get an Asus Z170-Pro motherboard for $90

While the Asus Z170 Pro did not make our cut as one of the best Z170 motherboards, it's a crowded field and one we might have strongly considered if its sale price was its normal price. As it stands, this $195 motherboard can be had for $90 at Newegg.

That price reflects a $35 mail-in-rebate. You'll also have to plug in a promo code (EMCSRFBB5) to knock $10 off its $135 sale price. It's also on sale at Amazon for $135, but even if you don't want to fuss with a mail-in-rebate, punching in the promo code at Newegg brings the out-of-door down to $125.

The Z170 Pro has some cool features, such as five-way optimization via a single click and a dedicated onboard water pump header. This board also features support for up to 64GB of DDR4-3866 (OC) memory and has three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, four PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots, six SATA 6Gbps ports, a SATA Express port, and and M.2 socket.

For external connectivity there are two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, and two USB 3.1 ports (one Type-C and one Type-A). There is also a GbE LAN port for wired connections, and both DVI-D and HDMI outputs.

While Intel's Kaby Lake (7th Gen Core) launched with the new 200-series chipsets, most 100-series motherboards, including the Z170 Pro, received BIOS updates to add support for the new processors. You lose out on a few PCIe lanes from the PCH, and Optane Memory support, but the Z170 remains a great chipset.

You can grab the board on sale here.

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Paul Lilly

Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer hardware since the Commodore 64. He does not have any tattoos, but thinks it would be cool to get one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).

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