Looking for a decent X470 motherboard to pair with the 2700X?

Space Monkey · 26 Jun 2018 at 18:38

Hi guys,

Looking for a really solid, high quality motherboard for my 2700X, being paired with 16GB 8Pack 3200MHz C14 RAM.

Budget approx £270

Any personal experiences good and bad gratefully received

Space Monkey · 27 Jun 2018 at 23:09

Thanks guys for the input so far

I've been eyeing up the ASRock Taichi Ultimate?

Space Monkey · 28 Jun 2018 at 21:38

orbitalwalsh said:
Wtf ... That sounds like returns job and someone's mixed them up !!!

Wonder if reps will allow name and shame of that site .

VRM's are overkill or the VRM cooling is overkill?

Space Monkey · 28 Jun 2018 at 22:39

orbitalwalsh said:
Missing my Abit core 2 duo board - nforce Chipset I believe .. so much copper !!!!

My all time fave motherboards, Abit, such a sad day when they disappeared

Space Monkey · 28 Jun 2018 at 22:41

eddiew said:
Be happy with either, be delighted with both Rare to see a real heatsink on VRMs these days, that picture looks good!

If it's overkill on both then that would make me delighted, I was genuinely unsure what the comment referred to as I've not had time to research the Gigabyte board?

Space Monkey · 29 Jun 2018 at 02:02

Jamin280672 said:
Gigabyte basically doubled up on all the vrm's using doublers lol, so every power phase to the CPU gets shared between 2 vrm's so to speak, this alone helps keep it cool, but to cool things down even more, they wacked a finned heatsink across the whole lot, as far as im aware, its only the X470 Gaming 7 which is their flagship board and only Gigabyte who have done this, VRMs on AM4 are a big issue, especially when overclocking, so anything anyone does to cool them down in my books is a massive plus.

Excellent, thanks