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Question

Best cheap mini atx motherboard for intel core i7 skylake

Mar 13, 2018 3:24PM PDT

Need a budget mini atx mobo for an i7 skylake my friend is giving me

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What i7?
Mar 14, 2018 2:23AM PDT

Tell a model number.

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Simply no to mini boards.
Mar 14, 2018 11:18AM PDT

Don't cram such into small hot cases. The number of times this has burned the builder is legend.

And shop the board at https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds and see if this CPU fits those boards there as the selection is very beat up and well tested.