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I'm in the same boat. Looking for a good MOBO. For you, just needing something solid for an overclock and nothing too shiny or fancy, the AsRock Extreme4 mentioned above looks good on paper. It's kind of a no-nonsense, basic but good mobo. No wifi or anything like that, but it does have 12...

I'm comparing a lot against the Extreme4 and besides looks and gimmicky stuff like "steel armor" around the PCIE slots... I'm trying to see a reason to actually spend more money... and I'm coming up short... I don't like have the Extreme4 shares so many PCI lanes but I don't know if the other do...

Phantom 6 Supports ASRock Hyper BCLK Engine II, the extreme4 doesn't. Isn't this mainly used for OC'ing non-K processors or something like that? I don't know much about it. Other than that, there are some tiny changes, nothing that would affect performance. So 175$ vs 195$... 20$ for looks and...

So I bought an 8700k a couple of weeks ago because I was anticipating the 14nm shortage to kill the price. I also got a new Noctua NH-D15s and equipped it on my old I5-2500k @ 4.4. I've been doing extensive research on power phases, overclock potential mobos, what the 8700k is capable of, and...

This has been most enlightening. Thanks for explaining so much Rogue, and thanks for being a realist and grounding my thoughts on this one bmockeg. :) I'm going to do some more research on that Extreme 4, the Aorus Master, and alike Z390s. Might start a new thread for a new question.

Why not? At what point is the voltage too high for an 8700k? If heat isn't an issue and if I cool it efficiently, the chip itself is the only thing stopping me. The voltage capacity for an 8700k to be unstable depends on the chip itself, hence "good" chip vs a "bad" chip, Intel won't post the...

Glad I'm not the only one that believes in the old stuff. I always like future-proofing my builds. This was my first one. I just recently bought my first home, so I'm building my 8700k for my own house warming present. Any suggestions on the RAM? I know at these levels and with a 970, (I...

Name: Asinto CPU: Core i5-2500k Motherboard:Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 CPU Voltage: 1.31 (Bios currently set), but my core voltage on my CPU-Z shows 1.320-1.334+ (fluctuates a little depending on load) CPU Bus Speed/Multiplier: 100.26 Mhz, x45 Turbo on all cores Clock Speed: 4.5 GHz RAM: 24Gb (2x8...