Gigabyte Aorus Ultra Gaming worth it?

[madzpredator]

I'm about to order all the parts to my new system and the motherboard is one thing I cannot decide on.
I found the Gigabyte Aorus Ultra Gaming and fell in love with the RGB's.
After doing some research it's said that the board is of great value but struggles with VRM cooling. I will be using an i7-8700k with this board but I most likely won't be overclocking. Does that make this mobo a no-go?

Should I just purchase this Prime A D4?=Link

 

[photonboy]

NOT RECOMMENDED.

You basically have answered your own question though I'm sure this is mainly some confirmation.
https://www.kitguru.net/components/leo-waldock/gigabyte-z370-aorus-ultra-gaming-review/3/

"On the downside it exhibits some extraordinary behaviour in terms of VRM temperatures where they work perfectly well during gaming but get horribly hot when you fully stress the CPU."

*Read on further and note it gets UNSTABLE when used for other "workstation" tasks (basically because the CPU is used more thus more power delivery which this board can NOT handle properly).

I find ASUS in general to have great boards and do an excellent job of software (driver, BIOS etc) support.

 

[photonboy]

Also be careful with CPU COOLERS. You are likely considering a liquid cooler such as the Kraken X62 rev. 2 or similar though personally I'd look for a high-end air cooler even if you ended up getting to "only" 4.8GHz all cores or so.

Liquid Cooler reviews are often misleading and they can have reliability issues. I'm sure I'll get flamed... was going to comment more but I have to go.

(Noctua NH-D15S is a great cooler but not a good color since you're going RGB... but something similar in cooling)

 

[madzpredator]

I've decided to skip the Aorus Ultra Gaming and instead get an Asus Strix board, I guess you can't really go wrong with that haha.