Hey guys,
I plan to pick up my 8700k cpu later on this week. I need some solid recommendations on what mobo I can pair it with. I have done some overclocking the past couple of builds and that trend will continue for this next cpu. I have had great experiences with Asus boards, even though I have seen a lot of threads or posts by people having poor customer service when it comes to RMAs. I have used Gigabyte boards before, but each time I tried them (4 times), I ended up returning them to exchange for an Asus. I'm not a fan of their bios as they seem to have very barebone settings compared to the Asus bios. I never tried AsRock or MSI, but I am willing to if they have very good overclocking features, are reliable, and customer service isn't a headache if I need support.
I currently have:
Win 10
Ryzen 1700x
x370 Asus Strix
Evga 1080Ti
Corsair H105 cooling
960 Evo M.2 SSD 500gb
32gb of DDR4-2400 ram
650w Seasonic gold psu
GSync monitor @ 1440p, 144hz
I have to say, there's nothing bad about the Ryzen cpu, it works well, I can open up tons of different programs at the same time without reaching 50% cpu utilization. The one issue I do have is I could not overclock the chip past 3.8 no matter how much I tried. Not sure if it's the Asus board itself or I just wasn't lucky. But running some cpu intensive games like Arma 3, I get -30fps compared to my previous Intel build (i7-4790k).
I don't really care for features such as WiFi, as I am always hard wired nor don't really care to add a second card for SLI. And I don't really care about the RGB lighting. I do use editing programs and have a capture card.
And I'm not looking to spend past $200 on a board (Strix was $179). I plan to use the components listed above with the cpu/mobo.
Any feedback would be great! Thanks guys.
Edit: Sorry as I probably should have posted this under motherboard forum!
I plan to pick up my 8700k cpu later on this week. I need some solid recommendations on what mobo I can pair it with. I have done some overclocking the past couple of builds and that trend will continue for this next cpu. I have had great experiences with Asus boards, even though I have seen a lot of threads or posts by people having poor customer service when it comes to RMAs. I have used Gigabyte boards before, but each time I tried them (4 times), I ended up returning them to exchange for an Asus. I'm not a fan of their bios as they seem to have very barebone settings compared to the Asus bios. I never tried AsRock or MSI, but I am willing to if they have very good overclocking features, are reliable, and customer service isn't a headache if I need support.
I currently have:
Win 10
Ryzen 1700x
x370 Asus Strix
Evga 1080Ti
Corsair H105 cooling
960 Evo M.2 SSD 500gb
32gb of DDR4-2400 ram
650w Seasonic gold psu
GSync monitor @ 1440p, 144hz
I have to say, there's nothing bad about the Ryzen cpu, it works well, I can open up tons of different programs at the same time without reaching 50% cpu utilization. The one issue I do have is I could not overclock the chip past 3.8 no matter how much I tried. Not sure if it's the Asus board itself or I just wasn't lucky. But running some cpu intensive games like Arma 3, I get -30fps compared to my previous Intel build (i7-4790k).
I don't really care for features such as WiFi, as I am always hard wired nor don't really care to add a second card for SLI. And I don't really care about the RGB lighting. I do use editing programs and have a capture card.
And I'm not looking to spend past $200 on a board (Strix was $179). I plan to use the components listed above with the cpu/mobo.
Any feedback would be great! Thanks guys.
Edit: Sorry as I probably should have posted this under motherboard forum!
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