Motherboard Recommendations

JuliusAugustulus

JuliusAugustulus

JuliusAugustulus

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Hello all,

I am thinking of building a new system and was wondering what everyone's recommendations would be for a motherboard. I already have most of my parts picked out and will probably be overclocking my CPU which will be an i9-9700K. The reason why I'm looking for advice is because I've found it easier to distinguish which specific GPU, say, or CPU, gives better performance in games compared to others but I've found it much more difficult to distinguish good from bad motherboards. What is the best motherboard on the market that you could recommend? My budget can probably stretch up to 300 pounds.

Thanks for reading!

Specs:
CPU: i7-9700K.
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Chromax.
GPU: EVGA RTX 2080TI FTW3
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 3200 Mhz (2x8GB).
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB SSD and Samsung 860 Evo 1TB SSD.
PSU: Corsair RM1000i.
Case: Fractal Design Meshify S2.​
 
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JuliusAugustulus said:
Okay, thanks for your replies. If I went with an AMD CPU which CPU and motherboard would you recommend instead?
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8 core/16 thread 3700X would perform better with next-gen games designed for that baseline.
Then updating to improved architecture (not just rebranding like Intels) Zen3 when it goes to to discount in fall 21/winter 22 would give 12c/24t likely at nice price for staying in high end for longer time.

With 8 c/16t as next-gen baseline I can see the heaviest PC games benefiting from more in couple years.
For example Assassin's Creed Odyssey scales past 8c/8t:
https://youtu.be/vVjdhXAdKE0?t=1m51s

In motherboards as base level £100 MSI B450 Tomahawk would work with 12 cores if you have case airflow.
Non-MSI X570 boards have lot better VRMs, which handle 12 cores without sweating.
Though price rises, like in decent feature set having X570 Aorus Elite.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...4-x570-chipset-atx-motherboard-mb-57w-gi.html

With AMD having more honest TDPs than Intel good amount cheaper cooler would be enough.
For example sub £50 Scythe Mugen 5 is only step behind the best.


And now is historically bad time to buy expensive graphics card.
For last few years Nvidia has focused into pumping user's butts... err prices and starting from £500 performance per price goes bad and then buttrape and robbery bad.
2080 Ti is only 30-40% faster than sub £400 Radeon 5700 XT.
And Nvidia's marketing "forgets" to tell that actually using marketing feature of RTX, raytracing, crashes performance down by 30-50%.
Wouldn't wonder any if by fall we'll be talking about better raytracing cards for under half the price.
Raytracing is one of the marketing features of next-gen consoles.
So AMD's next GPU architecture should perform vastly better in it, or consoles wouldn't be running anything at advertised resolutions.
Right time to buy more expensive graphics card would be then when new GPUs are out.


Samsung brand overprices their SSDs just like Intel their CPUs.
You can get 2TB NVMe drive for same price level as that small half TB drive and 1TB SATA drive:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...80-pcie-2tb-ssd-vpn100-2tbm28h-hd-015-pa.html

There's literally 1TB drive for same price as that half TB 970 EVO Plus
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/teamgroup-mp34-1tb-nvme-pcie-m.2-solid-state-drive-hd-00b-tg.html
Also SATA drives can be gotten for cheaper than 860 EVO


Also you don't need 1kW PSU, which would just make efficiency couple steps lower most of the time PC is on.
Very few PCs reach 400W power draw during gaming and 750W is already plenty.
10 year warranty 80+ Golds are actually around £100.
 
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