It seems I am a lucky winner of a 9700k after winning Intel's sweepstakes this week. I know it should be a decent upgrade from my 8600k, especially at no cost to myself but Im wondering if I should upgrade my mobo. I know they slot into z370 with a bios upgrade but I have also read that the VRM's can take a bit of a battering with the new chips. My current board is a Gigabyte Z370 Gaming 7 and I'm pretty sure it has high end VRM's but has anyone gone down the same path and experienced any throttling from the board itself?
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So I won one of Intels sweepstakes... 9700k and z370 advice.
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Thanks man.. I really don't want to have to buy a new board, but I am literally about to do a hard line water install too so don't want to have to dismantle anytime soon once its all in.
I think i'll take the risk and see how I get on.
I think i'll take the risk and see how I get on.
its all going under water so temps should be controlled well. I bought a supremacy cpu block but now I wish I had got hold of the motherboard mono block instead... If I was loaded I would just replace the motherboard, but i'm tight.
