18 hours ago, vc10man said:

Hi Martin, would a lesser costing Asus ROG Strix Gaming suffice or a board that does not have M.2 do me. I am not into M.2. hardware as I have quite few PCI devices I could re-use? So, any Aus MoBo you can suggests? I am not all that a 'big gamer' except for P3D.

Hi Rick

After being averse to Asus motherboards, when I got my 8700k I went with an Asus board, as there was a cashback deal on Asus at the time, but went for the cheapest board, the Z370 Prime - P.  I have got my 8700k clocked to 4.8ghz with no issues easily enough.  I wouldn't worry about going for one of the real expensive boards, mine was £105 then £40 cashback.

Once again, Martin, you are a great help here. Just what I wanted. As you have so rightly surmised. I am not into any Asus Z370 Motherboard with all bells 'n whistles as I do not need Wi-Fi, M.2, etc, etc, so your suggestions are a great help as well as alerting me to the fact that the ROG Strix is only a microATX, which I do not want.

Thanks, too, Austin.

 

Edited June 19, 20187 yr by vc10man

it is worth checking out things like components used on mainboards. If you are looking to overclock the CPU, you need stable voltage supply, which entails a good quality power supply and high quality components on your mainboard. I am not saying everything HAS to be high-end, most expensive, but you need to be sure that you have quality parts if you plan on pushing your system...

If you plan on stressing your system, then improve your system's longevity with quality components...

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5 hours ago, Charlatan said:

mine was £105 then £40 cashback.

Just looking at Scan's  website for the details. Have to call them for the price.

21 hours ago, Charlatan said:

Hi Rick

After being averse to Asus motherboards, when I got my 8700k I went with an Asus board, as there was a cashback deal on Asus at the time, but went for the cheapest board, the Z370 Prime - P.  I have got my 8700k clocked to 4.8ghz with no issues easily enough.  I wouldn't worry about going for one of the real expensive boards, mine was £105 then £40 cashback.

 

I had as Z270 Prime a while ago.  One of the USB header pins was bent and when I gently straightened it, it snapped off. This plus other aspects put me off the Prime boards. Once up and running it was an okay board though. 

6 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

I had as Z270 Prime a while ago.  One of the USB header pins was bent and when I gently straightened it, it snapped off. This plus other aspects put me off the Prime boards. Once up and running it was an okay board though. 

I'm usually a Gigabyte man, but the cashback deal made me try an Asus for the first time since z68

48 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

I had as Z270 Prime a while ago.  One of the USB header pins was bent and when I gently straightened it, it snapped off. This plus other aspects put me off the Prime boards. Once up and running it was an okay board though. 

Thanks for the warning, Martin. Another tick box in my list to amend re: motherboards.

 

41 minutes ago, Charlatan said:

Gigabyte

I would not touch them with  barge pole after their abysmal RTB service with a graphics card the old 560Ti purchased in the USA, returned to them in Ca., and got the same back with the original packaging missing plus same inherent display fault----row upon row of tiny squares in patterns. Now, theirs is the first name I cross out!!

@martin-w

Question for your expertise. I have a Be Quiet! Dark Rock Advanced air cooler. Would that suffice for my new i7-8086k?

Edited June 20, 20187 yr by vc10man

4 hours ago, vc10man said:

@martin-w

Question for your expertise. I have a Be Quiet! Dark Rock Advanced air cooler. Would that suffice for my new i7-8086k?

 

Not sure why you would even consider it if you have the superb NH-D15S. It's a really old cooler isn't it, several years old. 

If you weren't bothering to overclock much it would probably just about suffice.

 

11 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

Not sure why you would even consider it if you have the superb NH-D15S. It's a really old cooler isn't it, several years old. 

If you weren't bothering to overclock much it would probably just about suffice.

 

Sorry, Martin, I thought I had the Noctua D15S, till I checked my Scan buying history and discovered it was the D-14 instead I got for the Sandrybridge that I had bought prior to spotting that Haswell i5-4670k in Australia. Now you see why I posed the question.

Not that old, Bought it in 2014, and just a few weeks ago fitted it to that Sandybridge-based rig in the office I work in. Oc/d SB to 4.3GHz  and it's barely audible.

You can almost certainly get a new 1151 secufirm mounting kit so you can install the D14 on your new board. It would be way better than the BQ cooler.

I would replace the centrally mounted 150 fan with a new PWM fan too. You dont need to bother with the second 120mm fan on the D14 as it only makes 2 degrees difference.

Edited June 20, 20187 yr by martin-w

Thanks, Martin. On that basis I will go for a new Noctua D-15S as I liked the look of it, and the user feedback.

Going to chew the fat on the Asus board.