Ideal Mobo for ITX 8086k?

Tephnos · 9 Jan 2019 at 17:27

Hi,

As per thread title. Currently (was) using a Z370-i but it died on me this morning out of the blue after overclocking (only a light 5GHz 1.27v), and ocuk don't have any replacements in stock so need something fast.

I've been looking at Z390 as well but there's some requirements I have.

a) it needs 2xM.2 slots
b) It cannot have a gigantic I/O shield (I use a top down cooler and these make it incompatible).

I've seen that the Asrock Z390 fits the bill and they seem to be highly regarded, whereas Asus, Gigabyte, MSI... all seem to have some sort of issues. I'm in the ASUS issue camp now.

Opinions?

Apone70 · 9 Jan 2019 at 19:33

Gigabyte Z370 Gaming 7 is a cracking board and i would definitely recommend it.

Tephnos · 9 Jan 2019 at 20:22

Isn't that ATX?

Apone70 · 9 Jan 2019 at 20:26

Sorry mate i dunno how i missed the ITX bit :rolleyes:

Apone70 · 9 Jan 2019 at 21:04

The Z390 Gene gets really good write ups but i'm not sure about the IO shield, its seems massive but that might be as the board is small

LePhuronn · 15 Jan 2019 at 16:21

Apone70 said:
The Z390 Gene gets really good write ups but i'm not sure about the AIO shield, its seems massive but that might be as the board is small

It's Micro ATX so still almost 50% bigger than ITX.