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Z370 Motherboards to Avoid?

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I'll be honest, recently I've been minorly regretting my choice of the Asus Z370-P motherboard, mainly because of its lack of chassis fan headers and overall cheapness about it. I have also read a lot about the quality of the VRMs on this particular motherboard which adds to my concerns. This is ultimately what I get for choosing a £100 Z370 motherboard, I guess. My original choice was a Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Gaming 5, for the record.

 

Having said that, I've been wondering if there's any Z370 motherboards that should be avoided for whatever reason, such as their lack of headers, poor quality of hardware, or general unreliabity in the long run.

 

In the instance that the Asus Prime Z370-P is a motherboard to avoid for any of you, be brutally honest if it is.

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1. Those without heatsinks on the VRMs. Overclocking = pushing VRMs to hell. why not buy H310 or B360 boards if you cant overclock.

 

2. Those without debug LEDs or post code display. What's the most annoying thing when overclocking? Not knowing what failed you. CPU? RAM? Graphics card? Or forgetting to connect the SATA power connector to the boot drive...

 

11 minutes ago, seoz said:

In the instance that the Asus Prime Z370-P is a motherboard to avoid for any of you, be brutally honest if it is.

these cheaper boards are completely fine if you use the 8350k on them, but overclocking 6 core CPUs are pushing it.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

1. Those without heatsinks on the VRMs. Overclocking = pushing VRMs to hell. why not buy H310 or B360 boards if you cant overclock.

 

2. Those without debug LEDs or post code display. What's the most annoying thing when overclocking? Not knowing what failed you. CPU? RAM? Graphics card?

My Asus Prime Z370-P checks both these boxes, naked VRMs and no POST display...

 

7 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

these cheaper boards are completely fine if you use the 8350k on them, but overclocking 6 core CPUs are pushing it.

I'm running 4.4GHz overclock on my 8600K with this board, did 4.7GHz for a week, and 5GHz for ten minutes, couldn't even get to Windows with 5.2GHz.

 

Maybe I shouldn't have cheapened out on a motherboard after all. The lack of VRM heatsinks on ths board is honestly killing me.

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