Best MOBO for I9?

[Justinzonfire]

Best MOBO for around $200 USD for the I9-9900k? Donesnt need WiFi. Apparently the Z390-H has really bad VRMs ,had no clue.

[Phentos]

The ASRock Z390 Taichi is very solid and it can often be found for a little less than $200. Board has good enough VRMs for a decent overclock on a 9900K if your case has decent airflow.

[Cereal5]

A good comparison would be Whatever Gigabyte Auros board is around that price. I believe it would be the Auros Pro. They all use good VRMs. Both the Gigabyte and ASRock board are good options.

[Enderman]

I would recommend an ASUS board other the other brands.

Best UEFI and reliability, all reviewers use them too.

[Jurrunio]

Best VRM are found on Gigabyte Z390 Aorus boards. The cheapest is the Elite, but my usual recommendation is the Pro which cost a few dollars more, but has more temperature sensors. A niche thing I know, but then a few dollars is nothing on an already $180 board.

[Constantin]

Asus>MSI>all the rest

[Justinzonfire]

8 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Best VRM are found on Gigabyte Z390 Aorus boards. The cheapest is the Elite, but my usual recommendation is the Pro which cost a few dollars more, but has more temperature sensors. A niche thing I know, but then a few dollars is nothing on an already $180 board.

Yeah I couldn't fall asleep last night thanks to this site XD. I am returning my Asus z390-H and got the Aorus Pro for $20 more than the elite. Plus i get wi-fi so it works. Spent like 6 hours looking into it to but Buildzoid needs a freaking Nobel prize

[Justinzonfire]

9 hours ago, Phentos said:

The ASRock Z390 Taichi is very solid and it can often be found for a little less than $200. Board has good enough VRMs for a decent overclock on a 9900K if your case has decent airflow.

There's so much airflow in my case it hits the national tornado watch from time to time...

[Haximus]

I was struggling with this same question over the past couple of weeks, though I was willing to go past $200 on a mobo.  I mean hell, we are already spending 530 on the processor. 
There is not a whole lot of easy to find information on this right now from my research, but I did turn up enough info to make a decision. For years, I have been an ASUS fanboy, but this time around I will be going Gigabyte.  This is even after a friend of mine who happens to be a competitive over clocker (Steponz) was suggesting an Asus board. 

It appears the Asus boards have 4 phase VRM, while the Gigabytes have 12, which apparently is better for stable overclocking, and I am interested in this for getting those last couple of years out of my build.  The only reason people seem to not like the Gigabyte boards is because the BIOS has a wonky UI, not necessarily lacking any important features however.  For me, its no big deal because I will most like spend a total of an hour in the BIOS during the next 6 or 7 years that I expect to get out of this system.

Parts are on the way, should be here Tuesday.  9770K and Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master.  I will let you know how it goes!
Otherwise, good luck on you quest to find the right motherboard!

[Justinzonfire]

22 minutes ago, Haximus said:

I was struggling with this same question over the past couple of weeks, though I was willing to go past $200 on a mobo.  I mean hell, we are already spending 530 on the processor. 
There is not a whole lot of easy to find information on this right now from my research, but I did turn up enough info to make a decision. For years, I have been an ASUS fanboy, but this time around I will be going Gigabyte.  This is even after a friend of mine who happens to be a competitive over clocker (Steponz) was suggesting an Asus board. 

It appears the Asus boards have 4 phase VRM, while the Gigabytes have 12, which apparently is better for stable overclocking, and I am interested in this for getting those last couple of years out of my build.  The only reason people seem to not like the Gigabyte boards is because the BIOS has a wonky UI, not necessarily lacking any important features however.  For me, its no big deal because I will most like spend a total of an hour in the BIOS during the next 6 or 7 years that I expect to get out of this system.

Parts are on the way, should be here Tuesday.  9770K and Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master.  I will let you know how it goes!
Otherwise, good luck on you quest to find the right motherboard!

Thanks man! Very detailed. I agree, but after spending my morning at the feet of buildziod and his videos about vrms and also about the Asus boards itself and how bad it is, I was convinced. I myself am an Asus fanboy. That UEFI is better than a sunset on a beach. I went with the 9900k and the Gigabyte z390 aorus Pro with WiFi (wifi was cheaper than the regular pro ??). As it was stated by buildzoid, I don't mind learning a new bios (at least it's not ASRock bios :P). I get it on Wednesday and I'll complete my build then! I have a build log going and can link it so you can see how mine goes as well! @ me so I can see how yours goes too  great choice on your Mobo, I would have picked the master if my fiance didn't know how much these parts costed...

@Haximus

[Haximus]

I am glad that you were able to make your decision! Doesn't it feel great now that the stress of choosing the right parts is over with? 
Now we are in the "When the heck is the delivery truck going to get here?" stage! I have been checking tracking at an unhealthy rate

Cheers to our new builds!  I am looking forward to checking out your build log, this will be an exciting week!

[Justinzonfire]

7 hours ago, Haximus said:

I am glad that you were able to make your decision! Doesn't it feel great now that the stress of choosing the right parts is over with? 
Now we are in the "When the heck is the delivery truck going to get here?" stage! I have been checking tracking at an unhealthy rate

Cheers to our new builds!  I am looking forward to checking out your build log, this will be an exciting week!

Agreed! Plus I have two company Christmas parties this week! Hoping to recoup a little bit of cash from that  

 

"Doesn't it feel great now that the stress of choosing the right parts is over with? " YES. I stayed up till 3 AM stressed about my MOBO after this fiasco with VRMs. Not worried anymore I feel I have the right parts for both performance and aesthetics! Tomorrow's the day!

[Haximus]

How did the build go @Justinzonfire ?

For the record, I am very happy with the i9 9900K paired with Gigabyte z390 Aorus Master.

I was able to boot into Windows overclocked to 5.2ghz ranging from 3.35v to 3.5v, but could not complete a benchmark.
Scored 2174 in Cinebench r15 @ 5.1 Ghz with a 3.325v
Temperature reached a max of 76c - This is using the Corsair H115i Plaitnum
So I guess I got an average chip.  Didn't seem to have any issues with the motherboard or the BIOS.  One thing I don't like however is the RGB Fusion program for changing lighting.  I had a hard time getting my default memory RGB settings back on, and started to read that this software has even corrupted people's memory sticks recently.
I did update BIOS from F4 to F7.  There appears to be an F8e now adding " Support 32GB UDIMM "