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Best Motherboard For I7-8700k

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Hi LTT, 

I want to build my 2nd PC coming from an AMD APU, Yeah Yeah laugh it up, it was cheap at the time lol. Anyway, I'm between getting a Asus or MSI board. I want to be able to stream on twitch at 1080p.

 

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Both are great mobo companies. If you're going to be overclocking the heck out of the cpu, I'd go with either a MSI gaming pro carbon or an Asus Maximus series board. If you are going with a mediocre or no overclock, I recommend an Asus Strix z370-f or strix z370-e.

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I would personally go with an ASUS board. If there's anything wrong with it, ASUS customer service and RMA is much better.

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X • Noctua NH-D15 • MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk • 2x8GB G.skill Trident Z Neo 3600MHz CL16 • MSI VENTUS 3X GeForce RTX 3070 OC • Samsung 970 Evo 1TB • Samsung 860 Evo 1TB • Cosair iCUE 465X RGB • Corsair RMx 750W (White)

 

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ASUS VG27AQ • G PRO K/DA • G502 Hero K/DA • G733 K/DA • G840 K/DA • Oculus Quest 2 • Nintendo Switch (Rev. 2)

 

Laptop (Dell XPS 13):

Intel Core i7-1195G7 • Intel Iris Xe Graphics • 16GB LPDDR4x 4267MHz • 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD • 13.4" OLED 3.5K InfinityEdge Display (3456x2160, 400nit, touch). 

 

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I personally own both a an Asus Strix Z370-E and an Asus Maximus X Hero.  I do like the boards and am currently using the Maximus because the overclocking was more stable on it for me.  I could get my 8700K to 4.9 Ghz on the Strix and to 5.0 on the Maximus @ a slightly lower vCore.

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Thank you both for replying that really help! I was going for the MSI gaming pro carbon for game boost cuz I heard a lot of good reviews but if been seeing great reviews for Asus. So since ASUS RMA is better then maybe I'll go with them.

 

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7 minutes ago, GMart84 said:

I personally own both a an Asus Strix Z370-E and an Asus Maximus X Hero.  I do like the boards and am currently using the Maximus because the overclocking was more stable on it for me.  I could get my 8700K to 4.9 Ghz on the Strix and to 5.0 on the Maximus @ a slightly lower vCore.

Well, Maximus it is then! 

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For me, I personally use ASUS boards over MSI boards, I much prefer the BIOS on an ASUS for extreme overclocking, however both companies are fine, though the Maximus X Apex is a sexy board for a normal PC it comes more down to BIOS preference and looks, however I love my daily driver, Maximus VIII Formula

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Asus Maximus Code is a really good board.

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~i7 3770k 4.3ghz Arctic Freezer 33 Esports-Edition

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~Corsair SPEC-03 Red

 

Acer Aspire 5338 (2009 Laptop)

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GM45 iGPU (Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family)

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Hynix 4GBx2 1066mhz(800mhz)

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Best price / featues / performance... Z370 Extreme 4.

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