Please help me choose a DDR4 board for my new Z690 12900kf build.

[SchumiF399]

Budget (including currency): $350 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Assetto Corsa Competizione, Iracing, DCS World.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Currently own EVGA 3080ti, EVGA 850w PSU, 32GB DDR4 3600mhz RAM and (3) 32" LG Ultragear G-sync IPS panels. Total resolution is 7680x1440.

 

Hi everyone, I need some  help choosing out a DDR4 board for an incoming 12900KF. I am upgrading from my current 8700k and Asus ROG Strix Z370-H mobo. I have 3 boards in mind that include the Asus TUF Gaming Z690 Plus WI-FI D4, the MSi MAG Tomahawk Z690 WiFi DDR4 and the Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite AX DDR4. 

 

I am confused with which board is best for potential future overclocking. Part of the confusion is in part to having a bad 1st time pc building experience with the Z370-H. I say this in the sense that I thought I was getting a good board since it was marketed as a Strix board only to find out that it had a 6 phase VRM when it came time to overclock a few years down the line. The 8700k could not get past 4.8GHz all core at 1.315v with this board. But I digress, I chose to include the Asus TUF board because all though the Stirx was misleading I never had a problem with it to this day and I am familiar with the BIOS (I am still very new to overclocking and truth be told I followed a Reddit guide) .

 

What I've been able to research on the 3 boards mentioned above as far a VRM specs is as follows:

 

MSI Tomahawk:  16+1+1 70A VRM

Asus TUF: 14+1  80A DrMOS VRM (not sure what DrMOS is)

Gigabyte  Aorus Elite AX: 16+1+2 70A VRM

 

All these boards seem to have more power stages than my current board so I am hoping I don't fall victim of the same gimmick.  Thank you in advance.

 

 

[Jurrunio]

Just on VRM, even the worst Z690 currently out there (Gigabyte's UD, MSI's Pro Z690-A and Asus Z690-P) are all more than enough. Better boards are just more overkill VRM + features you may need such as extra USB ports, better networking and post code display.

[Dr0idGh0sT]

I like Asus Z690-A gaming, So i would get that. But almost everything seems to be out of stock now, So any motherboard u can get hands on will do  

[SchumiF399]

15 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Just on VRM, even the worst Z690 currently out there (Gigabyte's UD, MSI's Pro Z690-A and Asus Z690-P) are all more than enough. Better boards are just more overkill VRM + features you may need such as extra USB ports, better networking and post code display.

Thank you for the help. I think I'll go with the Asus board for now.