Motherboard for 9900K

[WebPlayz]

Im switching to team blue, and I want to know whats the best VRM preferably not from gigabyte. That I can get, Which hopefully can run a 9900K at 5GHZ on all cores. 

 

Price range is 250 ish USD

 

Thanks!

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

Im switching to team blue

Any particular reason? I would wait for the 10th gen which is probably coming soon enough anyways. a 9900K isn't going to be too much faster really, especially if you're gaming at 1440p.

EVGA is thet way to go always.

[WebPlayz]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Any particular reason? I would wait for the 10th gen which is probably coming soon enough anyways. a 9900K isn't going to be too much faster really, especially if you're gaming at 1440p.

EVGA is thet way to go always.

I stream, and VR is very laggy sometimes unplayable maxing out my CPU and I play X-Plane which is OpenGL and very single core dependent. 

[WickedStarfish]

8 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

Im switching to team blue, and I want to know whats the best VRM preferably not from gigabyte. That I can get, Which hopefully can run a 9900K at 5GHZ on all cores. 

 

Price range is 250 ish USD

 

Thanks!

Anything MSI is usually good, if you want the best of the best go the godlike, if you want to save a few dollars the MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC Motherboard is the one i went for in my build, i currently have an i5 in it but was going to go the i7 or i9 later down the track. as at the time i had a certain limit to what i could spend and decided an i5 with a 2070 suited me better than an i7/9 and a 2060.

[Streetguru]

12 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

I stream, and VR is very laggy sometimes unplayable maxing out my CPU and I play X-Plane which is OpenGL and very single core dependent. 

So why not just buy the 12 core Ryzen 3000 CPU and update your BIOS? Won't even need to replace the motherboard. You're going from 8 cores to 8 cores so not much would change I don't think.

[WebPlayz]

9 minutes ago, WickedStarfish said:

Anything MSI is usually good, if you want the best of the best go the godlike, if you want to save a few dollars the MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC Motherboard is the one i went for in my build, i currently have an i5 in it but was going to go the i7 or i9 later down the track. as at the time i had a certain limit to what i could spend and decided an i5 with a 2070 suited me better than an i7/9 and a 2060.

I was thinking about grabbing a Meg ACE or a ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero, But I've had bad experiences with Asus 

[WebPlayz]

5 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

So why not just buy the 12 core Ryzen 3000 CPU and update your BIOS? Won't even need to replace the motherboard. You're going from 8 cores to 8 cores so not much would change I don't think.

Because I would have to swap my motherboard because It can't push that much power through it, and Intel's IPC is still higher than 3rd gen last time I checked 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

I would have to swap my motherboard because It can't push that much power through it,

The new Ryzen CPUs are more power efficient than ever, not power hungry beasts. An upgrade to the 3700X would yield quite the gains to performance, probably eliminate stuttering. No need for new mobo.

 

2 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

Intel's IPC is still higher than 3rd gen last time I checked 

By a very tiny amount, certainly not proportional to the price increase.

[WickedStarfish]

2 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

I was thinking about grabbing a Meg ACE or a ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero, But I've had bad experiences with Asus 

the ACE seems like a nice motherboard that i have not heard many bad things about, may i ask what you are going to use for cpu cooling?

 

[WebPlayz]

Just now, WickedStarfish said:

the ACE seems like a nice motherboard that i have not heard many bad things about, may i ask what you are going to use for cpu cooling?

 

H115I

[WebPlayz]

 

 

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4 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

 

 

By a very tiny amount, certainly not proportional to the price increase.

I would still swap my motherboard because im getting a new case as well and redoing the whole look, Would intel not be better than? I need something that has the fastest IPC for X-Plane 11 since thats what I stream. 

[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

I would still swap my motherboard because im getting a new case as well and redoing the whole look, Would intel not be better than? I need something that has the fastest IPC for X-Plane 11 since thats what I stream. 

Intel has a tiny margin of performance over 3rd gen Ryzen. In essence, they're effectively tied, with AMD even claiming the lead on some games these days. Not sure specifically about X-Plane, however.

[WickedStarfish]

8 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

The new Ryzen CPUs are more power efficient than ever, not power hungry beasts. An upgrade to the 3700X would yield quite the gains to performance, probably eliminate stuttering. No need for new mobo.

 

By a very tiny amount, certainly not proportional to the price increase.

i dont know if this is correct or not, but i do remember hearing a while back that although they are supported that using older motherboards was not recommended

[WickedStarfish]

10 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

H115I

do you currently own the H115I?

 

[WebPlayz]

1 minute ago, WickedStarfish said:

i dont know if this is correct or not, but i do remember hearing a while back that although they are supported that using older motherboards was not recommended

yeah, and my motherboard has a 6Phase. And right now is reaching high temps to just get 4.2 on my 2700x

[WebPlayz]

1 minute ago, WickedStarfish said:

do you currently own the H115I?

 

Yep

[Streetguru]

12 minutes ago, WebPlayz said:

and Intel's IPC is still higher than 3rd gen last time I checked 

yes but it only has 8 cores still.

And you can run the 12 core at stock no problem on your current motherboard.

 

the 9900K is maybe 5-10% ahead at best compared to the 3000 series in the average game, if that one is super intel reliant it'll maybe be a 15% difference, but for streaming more cores is always better pretty much.

 

Although it mostly seems like the game is just unoptimized like Pubg or flight sim X

 

it does scale with more cores though going by the results at the end under "CPU scaling"

https://www.notebookcheck.net/X-Plane-11-Benchmarks.287550.0.html

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, WickedStarfish said:

i dont know if this is correct or not, but i do remember hearing a while back that although they are supported that using older motherboards was not recommended

It doesn't matter, you just don't get PCI-e gen 4 on older motherboards, which only matters for future SSDs.

Assuming the motherboard can support the bios update, which only low end boards lack support for since they were given tiny capacity bios chips.

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, WickedStarfish said:

i dont know if this is correct or not, but i do remember hearing a while back that although they are supported that using older motherboards was not recommended

I don't believe AMD specifically suggested this, kind of defeats the purpose of making the CPUs compatible in the first place. Not that it matters, the current motherboard in OP's signature has a bunch of power phases and suitable heat sink and could handle an 8 core with no problem.