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I have the cheapest z270 board, the gigabyte hd3p. It has a 4+3 phase VRM, just like most lowend z270 boards. The uefi of this board doesn't quite work either.
I'm looking to buy something more stable and reliable.
I'm looking at ATX boards which are cheaper than the Asrock Taichi:
Asus Strix z270-F, Prime z270-A
Asrock z270 Extreme 4 (, z270 Taichi)
MSI 270 Gaming Pro Carbon, Krait, Gaming M3, Gaming M5, SLI Plus

I feel like the taichi would be overkill. The system is for gaming, and all I want is a reliable 24/7 overclock, nothing extreme (240 EKWB radiator, delidded 7700k with liquid metal, so the motherboard is the limiting factor). My current gigabyte board is very unstable when it comes to voltage regulation.
I'd like to get some insight mainly on the listed boards' uefi quality and vrm design. If you may have some experience with any of these, please do share them.

I like the Asus Prime A because it seems to be a down-to-earth, "stability and reliability over everything" kinda deal. Is it really rock solid?
The Asrock Extreme 4 is appealing to me because it has the highest number of phases, though I suspect its 8+4 is actually a 4+2 doubled up, or a 4*2 + 4. That would be worse than the 6+2*2 on the others (assuming that those don't have doublers in the vcore vrm).

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I personally don't really like ASUS boards anymore... the more "highend" ones are what I call "Ram Zicke" ... means extremely picky with ram modules.

 

For quite some time I personally use the Fatal1ty boards... First from Abit, now from ASRock. Even suggest those when I do builds for friends. Never went wrong with those. 

 

From the benchmarking point of view they are not the top, but quite well in the upper tier. 

 

The ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 could be an option. Cheaper than the Taichi but still a good decent board.

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I would personally go with the MSI gaming M5. Never had an MSI board fail on me. The h87 one in my very first rig still works very well. I recommended the boards to several colleagues and never heard of any of them failing. Definitely more stable and reliable than gigabyte (i had two Gigabyte boards rma'ed in the past). If you don't have the budget for the M5, go with the M3. 

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16 hours ago, Airdragonz said:

I would personally go with the MSI gaming M5. Never had an MSI board fail on me.

I read that their uefi can be lacking. Any thoughts on that?

My R2700XT build:  r7 2700 @4.1 Ghz max 65C - Sapphire Pulse rx 5700xt @1625Mhz 955mV 1300rpm fans, max 82C - Asrock B450 gaming k4 - Gskill Ripjaws 2x8GB @3200mhz CL16 - Be Quiet Straight Power E11 650w - Fractal Meshify C - EK-Kit S240 - NB eLoop 120mm PWM - Be Quiet Shadow Wings 140mm 1000rpm - Bitfenix Spectre LED PWM 120mm - Samsung 250GB 860 Evo - Seagate Barracuda 2TB

Peripherals:  Acer XF270HBbmiiprzx 144hz 1080p TN - CM Storm Quickfire TK - Coolermaster MK750 - CM Storm Reaper - Logitech G303 - Logitech G502 - Logitech G603

Audio:  Hyperx Cloud Stinger - Samson SR850 - Trust Screamer - Creative Gigaworks T20 II

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17 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

The ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 could be an option. Cheaper than the Taichi but still a good decent board.

It seems really nice, I'd take it if it wasn't red...
I'm gonna find a few reviews on it. Thanks for the suggestion

 

My R2700XT build:  r7 2700 @4.1 Ghz max 65C - Sapphire Pulse rx 5700xt @1625Mhz 955mV 1300rpm fans, max 82C - Asrock B450 gaming k4 - Gskill Ripjaws 2x8GB @3200mhz CL16 - Be Quiet Straight Power E11 650w - Fractal Meshify C - EK-Kit S240 - NB eLoop 120mm PWM - Be Quiet Shadow Wings 140mm 1000rpm - Bitfenix Spectre LED PWM 120mm - Samsung 250GB 860 Evo - Seagate Barracuda 2TB

Peripherals:  Acer XF270HBbmiiprzx 144hz 1080p TN - CM Storm Quickfire TK - Coolermaster MK750 - CM Storm Reaper - Logitech G303 - Logitech G502 - Logitech G603

Audio:  Hyperx Cloud Stinger - Samson SR850 - Trust Screamer - Creative Gigaworks T20 II

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For anybody looking for similar information, it seems like all mobos in this price range are not very well equipped in the vrm territory... They all have 3 real phases for the vcore, which are "doubled" by increasing the circuitry components' number. No doubler driver ICs.
The taichi is properly doubled, from 4 to 8 phase vcore, with doubler drivers.

My R2700XT build:  r7 2700 @4.1 Ghz max 65C - Sapphire Pulse rx 5700xt @1625Mhz 955mV 1300rpm fans, max 82C - Asrock B450 gaming k4 - Gskill Ripjaws 2x8GB @3200mhz CL16 - Be Quiet Straight Power E11 650w - Fractal Meshify C - EK-Kit S240 - NB eLoop 120mm PWM - Be Quiet Shadow Wings 140mm 1000rpm - Bitfenix Spectre LED PWM 120mm - Samsung 250GB 860 Evo - Seagate Barracuda 2TB

Peripherals:  Acer XF270HBbmiiprzx 144hz 1080p TN - CM Storm Quickfire TK - Coolermaster MK750 - CM Storm Reaper - Logitech G303 - Logitech G502 - Logitech G603

Audio:  Hyperx Cloud Stinger - Samson SR850 - Trust Screamer - Creative Gigaworks T20 II

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