motherboard for i5-8400 / 8500

[tautvexe5]

still deciding between the two cpu's (i'm fine with spending 15 extra euros for that extra 100mhz)

but i need to find an motherboard for it, sure i can find a lot of matches on pcpartpciker but id like to ask if someone could provide extra insight.

my main goal with this new system will be to keep it cool so motherboard should probably have :

decent enough space for 212x fan and ram clearance that it would not conflict (going for 2x 8GB sticks, dont think i need 4 slots but incase games become too ram hungry upgrade availability is nice)

if possible more than 2 case fan headers (incase i decide to not go with silverstone rl06 and i would require more fan's like meshify c witch needs extra one fan in the front to get somewhere close to rl06 performance)

i have absolutly no idea about the chipsets except that Z370 is the best possible ones while B360 and H360 are more casual user ones if anyone could tl;dr diffrence between them that would be awesome

any recommended boards also is much appreceated

 

[jojesa]

These two are very good and have 2 or more fan headers.

ASRock H370M Pro4
GIGABYTE H370M D3H

If you need more fan headers you can always get a fan header splitter

You can go with a Z series motherboard if you are getting a unlock K CPU (i5-8600K) that you can overclocked.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Pretty much any B360 or H370 mobo would do what you want. Make sure to get low profile RAM if you're worried about fan clearance. The majority of mobos will have 2+ fan headers, except maybe the really cheap ones.

Since you're not overclocking, then there will be no meaningful performance difference from one motherboard to the next. Just make it has all the connectors you want. E.g. # of USB ports, SATA connectors, an M.2 slot if you want, etc.