Spec me a budget/good value mono for a 9900k please...
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Devils advocate, wouldn't it make sense to match say a slightly lesser CPU with a better mobo? That said, historically I never put much thought into my mobo purchases and have got on fine with what I guess is lower midrange these days,
For an i9-9900K it's hard to recommend anything below Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite which can be found for as low as £164. Or Aorus Pro Wifi for £163. Or Aorus Pro £168 (latter is apparently the higher ranked of the three* - Pro > Elite > Pro Wifi).
* https://hothardware.com/news/gigabyte-z390-aorus-master-ultra-elite-pro-featured-leak
Especially when you see the temperatures the VRMs reach on budget boards, like the four in this vid:
@ 14:44
Z390 boards that aren't suitable for 9900K should really come with a warning about it. Instead they all come with "Made for i9-9900K processors".
Haven't seen VRM temperature tests for slightly below £150 boards like MSI Tomahawk/Gaming Edge AC or Gigabyte Gaming SLI/Gaming X so don't know if those might be "ok". Specs are one thing, actual temp tests another.
* https://hothardware.com/news/gigabyte-z390-aorus-master-ultra-elite-pro-featured-leak
Especially when you see the temperatures the VRMs reach on budget boards, like the four in this vid:
@ 14:44
Z390 boards that aren't suitable for 9900K should really come with a warning about it. Instead they all come with "Made for i9-9900K processors".
Haven't seen VRM temperature tests for slightly below £150 boards like MSI Tomahawk/Gaming Edge AC or Gigabyte Gaming SLI/Gaming X so don't know if those might be "ok". Specs are one thing, actual temp tests another.
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Ignore me, just realized that the wifi boards lower down in that Aorus renaming picture are the ITX wifi boards lol. So yeah, they are likely the same.
my brother has this
My basket at Overclockers UK:
it was purchased as a present by his partner at christmas as his first component, so he didnt have a choice really ha, but he did end up buying the 9900k last week along with the rest and seems happy, he knows his stuff, he does have an AIO cooler, but im not sure on his taking to overclocking stuff nor do i know how much memory he has(im yet to see it in action), but id say its a good contender and under £150 also.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £150.49 (includes shipping: £10.50)
it was purchased as a present by his partner at christmas as his first component, so he didnt have a choice really ha, but he did end up buying the 9900k last week along with the rest and seems happy, he knows his stuff, he does have an AIO cooler, but im not sure on his taking to overclocking stuff nor do i know how much memory he has(im yet to see it in action), but id say its a good contender and under £150 also.
my brother has this
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £150.49 (includes shipping: £10.50)
it was purchased as a present by his partner at christmas as his first component, so he didnt have a choice really ha, but he did end up buying the 9900k last week along with the rest and seems happy, he knows his stuff, he does have an AIO cooler, but im not sure on his taking to overclocking stuff nor do i know how much memory he has(im yet to see it in action), but id say its a good contender and under £150 also.
Nice looking board but he'll have to be careful with overclocking the 9900K. Same might go for similarly priced boards, they'll run it, and may overclock a bit if it's good silicon, but increasing voltage could get dangerously hot rather quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUADuU5puYo
By the way, I think MSI had the right idea there, making the VRM heatsink into the IO cover as well, thereby expanding the area of the heatsink, and that's something that might take off and get adopted by others, but they failed to cut enough fins into it for better dissipation in this model. Not to mention they didn't add any heatpipes.
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aorus boards been designed to run 5ghz M.C.E AVX for over 24 Hours.
i'll happily run a £120 Gigabyte UD Z390 at 5ghz but with a damn good air cooler and airflow .
Gigabyte boards can handle 600amps, more so then Aorus board etc but mosfet they use do run hotter and heatsinks aren't as great . So for gaming and 5GHZ overclock would be fine , for rendering/AVX loads etc - wouldn't touch a board under £200 , specially if left on max load over 24 hours.
also push the Gigabyte X/SLi over UD , heat sink is worth the extra cost
then UK warranty etc
look around, £165 price tag
that MSI heatsink is larger, but still only a low amount of mosfet units and they will generate a lot of heat over that heatsink.
MSI board is one of the worst for 9900k
https://www.overclock.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=250662&d=1548963030
least you'll see how x570 line up looks from that chart
i'll happily run a £120 Gigabyte UD Z390 at 5ghz but with a damn good air cooler and airflow .
Gigabyte boards can handle 600amps, more so then Aorus board etc but mosfet they use do run hotter and heatsinks aren't as great . So for gaming and 5GHZ overclock would be fine , for rendering/AVX loads etc - wouldn't touch a board under £200 , specially if left on max load over 24 hours.
also push the Gigabyte X/SLi over UD , heat sink is worth the extra cost
then UK warranty etc
look around, £165 price tag
that MSI heatsink is larger, but still only a low amount of mosfet units and they will generate a lot of heat over that heatsink.
MSI board is one of the worst for 9900k
https://www.overclock.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=250662&d=1548963030
least you'll see how x570 line up looks from that chart
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