I am considering a PC upgrade as I have a game that my haswell 4670k is not good enough for, a 8600k should do the job, but the motherboard is proving a hassle on my choice. Note I am also considering ryzen at this point, so may not go intel at all.
I dont know if the asus comparison page is missing features that are present or that ASUS are cutting some big corners on every single one of their boards to the point not any of them have all features I want on one board.
Does anyone know if a asus Z370 board that has all of the following.
2 PCIE X16 slots fed from cpu
front usb3 header (missing from TUF series specs but I see what looks like a usb3 header on screenshot)
front usb2 header (missing from some ROG specs)
ps/2 port (missing from prime-A board and all ROG boards, and all STRIX boards)
memok (missing from most ROG boards, and all strix boards)
fully featured bios no features cut (not a single board lists every bios feature)
8x sata ports facing outwards (looks like all the z370 boards have 6 total, I currently have 7 sata devices, with an 8th planned)
usb 3.1 type c port
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 (missing from half of the boards)
ASUS EZ Flash 3 (missing from half of the boards)
ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Mode (this would think is on all boards but is missing from 5 of the ROG boards specs)
ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall) (missing from half of the boards)
At least 3 chassis fan connectors
O.C. Profile (This seemingly basic feature on my z87 prime board is missing from half of the ROG boards, all the strix boards, all the TUF boards, and all the prime boards)
I dont know if the asus comparison page is missing features that are present or that ASUS are cutting some big corners on every single one of their boards to the point not any of them have all features I want on one board.
Does anyone know if a asus Z370 board that has all of the following.
2 PCIE X16 slots fed from cpu
front usb3 header (missing from TUF series specs but I see what looks like a usb3 header on screenshot)
front usb2 header (missing from some ROG specs)
ps/2 port (missing from prime-A board and all ROG boards, and all STRIX boards)
memok (missing from most ROG boards, and all strix boards)
fully featured bios no features cut (not a single board lists every bios feature)
8x sata ports facing outwards (looks like all the z370 boards have 6 total, I currently have 7 sata devices, with an 8th planned)
usb 3.1 type c port
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 (missing from half of the boards)
ASUS EZ Flash 3 (missing from half of the boards)
ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Mode (this would think is on all boards but is missing from 5 of the ROG boards specs)
ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall) (missing from half of the boards)
At least 3 chassis fan connectors
O.C. Profile (This seemingly basic feature on my z87 prime board is missing from half of the ROG boards, all the strix boards, all the TUF boards, and all the prime boards)
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