Is there a motherboard ranking?

[Ashaman Cooper]

I have been looking at motherboards all week and its giving me a headache. They all say best this or that, and none of it makes sense. I am trying to build an overkill machine with the i7 8700k for January. What is the best asus mobo, the formula, the apex, the hero? Or This godlike board on site says is the best. If you dont concider money, is there not just a mobo that has everything, then less with less price from there? I have 15 fans, 1080 rad, probably 1080ti but i want to upgrade to 2080 as soon as thats out. I have a ridiculous amount of space in my custom case. Can someone please tell me what mobo will outperforme all others, or if there are trade offs, what they are. I just dont get it.

[Blackhole890]

the difference is just aesthetics, more i/o ports and maybe warranty... Just pick whatever you prefer with the best looking, most usbs ports and pcie lanes because there's not the best mobo...

[SquintyG33Rs]

2 minutes ago, Ashaman Cooper said:

I have been looking at motherboards all week and its giving me a headache. They all say best this or that, and none of it makes sense. I am trying to build an overkill machine with the i7 8700k for January. What is the best asus mobo, the formula, the apex, the hero? Or This godlike board on site says is the best. If you dont concider money, is there not just a mobo that has everything, then less with less price from there? I have 15 fans, 1080 rad, probably 1080ti but i want to upgrade to 2080 as soon as thats out. I have a ridiculous amount of space in my custom case. Can someone please tell me what mobo will outperforme all others, or if there are trade offs, what they are. I just dont get it.

it's more complicated than powersupplies because there's a 100x more models and it has to be redone every time a new board comes out.

[SquintyG33Rs]

Just now, Blackhole890 said:

the difference is just aesthetics, more i/o ports and maybe warranty... Just pick whatever you prefer with the best looking, most usbs ports and pcie lanes because there's not the best mobo...

in general.... yeah kinda.... not really though if you want to do more intensive stuff

[Ashaman Cooper]

10 minutes ago, Blackhole890 said:

the difference is just aesthetics, more i/o ports and maybe warranty... Just pick whatever you prefer with the best looking, most usbs ports and pcie lanes because there's not the best mobo...

So of those i listed what do you think is the best, formula, apex, godlike. Or one you like more?

[Ashaman Cooper]

10 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

in general.... yeah kinda.... not really though if you want to do more intensive stuff

So of those i listed what do you think is the best, formula, apex, godlike. Or one you like more?

[SquintyG33Rs]

3 minutes ago, Ashaman Cooper said:

So of those i listed what do you think is the best, formula, apex, godlike. Or one you like more?

from asus on intel i think the formula is the best price to feature ratio. the hero series is supposed to be flagship

[just_dave]

On Z370, the aesthetics are ruining great boards. Gigabyte Aorus 7 and MSI Godlike overheat because they have stupid RGB heatsinks that only look good and dont actually work.

Asus ROG boards are good, they use Infineon OptiMOS mosfets with decent efficiency and 50A max cont. current draw and have decent heatsinks.

I'd pick Hero or Formula, depends on how much cash do you want to burn.

ASRock boards are similiar, Taichi, i7, Pro Gaming, K6, Extreme4 all have similair mosfets (or variants, there are Fairchild and Sino ones)

They are decent, but the higher-end asus boards are better.

[DildorTheDecent]

Apex, no doubt about it.

 

It holds most of the OC records for a reason.