I5 8400 motherboard choice

[R9mpo]

Hello,

As there's no other motherboard choices I was wondering if the cheapest z370 available will hold the i5 8400? Or will it have no effect as it's a locked Chip?

TIA

 

[R9mpo]

Yeah, the cheapest one you can get will be more than enough. They can even handle an overclocked 8700K just fine.

Do you think something like this would be a bit better than the stock Intel cooler? https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cryorig-c7-top-flow-cpu-heatsink-hs-009-cy.html

 

[R9mpo]

Any board will be good, but obviously make sure it has certain features you may want. I made a build with the bottom tie asrock z370 A and it was fine.

The stock cooler is noisy and crap. On my 8700 (non k) build i have just completed, in realbench temps quickly went to over 80 degrees and it was very noisy. Installed a Raijintek leto and now it seems to max out around 60 in realbench and it is silent. Really pleased with the leto actually, very nice looking , decent cooling and very quiet. Not one if you are going to be doing extreme clocking but great if you are staying at stock.

For my 8700 build i went for a gigabyte gaming k3 which works out very cheap if you get a good price on it and sell the steam code you get with it.

That looks like a really nice cooler think I'll have a look at some reviews and give it a go