Good motherboard for 9900KF?

[SupremeGOAT]

I am in the process of picking out the parts for a pc for a friend of mine. He is convinced that intel is still "state of the art" . It's what he wants so whatever. Whats a good motherboard can support all core OCof 5GHz and what is a good cooler for the 9900KF?

[SupaKomputa]

Any reason not to go for Ryzen 3800X?

[melete]

One of the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus boards. Aorus Ultra is a safe bet but any of Elite/Pro/Ultra/Master have good VRM designs. 

[SupremeGOAT]

8 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Any reason not to go for Ryzen 3800X?

he's a stubborn fool i told him about the gospel of ryzen but he's a normie...

[SupaKomputa]

Then you should get one and have it face to face with his pc. Thy shall prevail!

[berberries]

Sometimes its preference, or he has specific needs for an Intel system for an application that he uses for example pretty much the whole Adobe CC Suite. So lets not go into this Intel vs AMD war. Gigabyte make some of the best boards for the Z390 platform.. Yes Asus ROG boards may be slightly better, but they cost nearly twice as much as Gigabyte Aorus boards.

 

Consider the Gigabyte Aorus series boards for Z390, Aorus Master, Aorus Ultra, Aorus Elite, Aorus Pro.

 

Cooler wise, either the Noctua NH-D15, Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4, Corsair H100i RGB Pro (or any larger corsair rads), Any good AIO with at least 240mm rad.

[SupremeGOAT]

On 6/29/2019 at 2:03 PM, melete said:

One of the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus boards. Aorus Ultra is a safe bet but any of Elite/Pro/Ultra/Master have good VRM designs. 

OK so we saw some reviews of the z390 Aorus and he decided he will take the Gigabyte - Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard with a Corsair - H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler. I showed him the new ryzen benches and the new radeon cards. HA! hes torn now because of the price/performance for ryzen and is having second thoughts. He likes the image sharpening on the radeon cards and we ended up with 2 builds.

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZnkqD2

CPU: Intel - Core i9-9900KF 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($479.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($179.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($149.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($64.89 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($79.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: XFX - Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Video Card  ($399.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox MB511 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA - 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($84.88 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $1634.59
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-07-12 22:25 EDT-0400

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qBDmnH

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($329.00 @ B&H) 
Motherboard: MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($114.89 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($134.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.93 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($79.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: XFX - Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Video Card  ($399.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox MB511 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA - 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($84.88 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $1268.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-07-12 22:25 EDT-0400

 

At the end of the day its his money im not gonna force him to do nothing.