G4Frost

In my area that's the exact same price as all the other Z370s lower on your list so that works hahaha

I know but if I go with a 8600k instead what would be the better option as I still haven't decided between that or a 7700k

Although I guess the Asus ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming is only 20-30 more

Any thoughts on the difference between a Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming and a Asus Prime Z370-A as they both seem to be the same feature wise and are the very top of my price range

So everything but the Gaming 5 is ok?

What board would you pair with the 8600k then that meets those same specifications and also is that ram still ok?

I am stuck deciding between these 2 MBs so was looking for some guidance on what is the better of the 2 What I am after: Needs to be SLI as I am running a 1080 G1 at the moment but will probably go to sli in a couple of years time I am going to be using a 7700k and overclocking it so it will need to have good overclocking support going to be running Corsair Vengence LED 3000MHz (CMU16GX4M2C3000C15R) so handling super fast ram won't be a necessity Any input or recommendations would be really helpful

Update: I found a really cheap second hand (5 months old so still has 6 months on the warranty) Gigabyte 1080 G1 edition (RRP $900 in my area and I got it for $650) which I have now got and so I bought the extra 16GB of ram off my friend. I'll just run this until I have the money to go up to a 7700k (i will get a k this time hahah) or something around there that is DDR4 like you reccomended

Sweet thank you ill have a look now

Backstory: I just bought 2x8GB Kingston HyperX Fury Blues from my friend https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/HX316C10F_8.pdf and before I was running 1x8GB Kingston HyperX blu https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/khx1600c10d3b1_8g.pdf I always thought my blu was 1600MHz because of the 1600 in the in the part code but i am not sure now because it says "DDR3-1600 CL10 SDRAM" in the description on the pdf but in the same description it says latency DDR3-1333 timing of 9-9-9 which makes me think its 1333MHz Anyway I have installed the 2x8GB deffinetly 1600Mhz fury in slot 1+2 (my slot orientation is 1324 (1+2 grey 3+4 black)) But I was wondering if I install the 8GB of blu in the third slot will it bring the speed of the other 2 down if the blu is in fact slower

I have just barely enough to get a 1080 and 16gb of ram I just can't afford a 1080 if I have to get a new cpu+mb+ram But thanks for the video ill look into seeing if I could maybe upgrade to the k version for not too expensive as both those CPUs in the video were like 4.9+ whereas mine only boosts to 3.9

1. Budget & Location My budget is dependant on the answer, and in $NZD 2. Aim My aim is to speed up my computer in games. Games being broad as I play a wide range e.g. Wildlands, PubG, Assetto Corsa, Battlefield, NFS, Overwatch, Dying Light so a good mix of GPU speed and texture storage is needed At the moment it is as fast as I need for things like coding and photoshop but is starting to get a tad slow in some of the newer games. 3. Monitors I currently have 2x 1920x1080p 60hz and 1x 1440x900 60hz (but I am thinking of upgrading the smaller one to a 120/144hz curved screen at maybe 2k res that I will use as my main solo gaming monitor) I normally just game on one screen except for Assetto Corsa as driving sims are so much better with tri screen 4. Peripherals none 5. Why are you upgrading? I am starting to no longer be able to run games at 60 fps solid at high settings anymore and I'm wanting to upgrade to a 120/144hz monitor but don't want to have to lower the quality so I'm gonna need to upgrade my graphics card. The only problem is I don't know if the rest of my PC will hold the new graphics card back and if ill need to fit that into my budget as ill either be able to afford a 1080 with nothing else or a 1070 plus the other stuff. Current Specs cpu: Intel i7 4770 (non k yes i know I was stupid back when I got it) mb: Gigabyte Z87-HD3 ram: 8gb Kingston 1600mhz (if I don't have to upgrade everything else and go to ddr4 I will probably upgrade to 16gb ddr3 as my friend will sell me some cheap) gpu: Gigabyte 970 G1 ssd: 2x hdd: 2x So basically my question is will I be able to get away with putting a 1080 in my system or will either my motherboard / CPU hold back its full potential