A lot of board for £100. Intel Skylake sixth-generation processors have been in the wild for some time now. There are, at the time of writing, 17 Core processors available, split over the i3, i5 and i7 families. In short, if you're building a decent PC box today, you need to be looking at these chips.

Motherboard support comes in the form of six chipsets - H110, B150, Q150, H170, Q170 and Z170 - though the enthusiast naturally veers towards the Z-series board because of its focus on overclocking and full feature set. Heck, you can even overclock 'locked' processors now.

Aggressive competition amongst the leading vendors has resulted in fine boards being available at the crucial £100 segment. Asus has the Z170-K, Gigabyte comes in with the Z170XP-SLI while MSI offers consumers the Z170A Tomahawk.