Weekend stumble = broken mobo :-(

ironmysox

ironmysox

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Firstly, thanks for looking at my post.

So, as the thread title says, I had stumble earlier. I'm rather clumsy day to day but sadly this time I was carrying my PC. I did drop it but sort of caught it as it hit the floor so luckily zero case damage BUT my mobo physically broke at the GPU socket. Thanks to a good friend who let me use his mobo for testing, he is in-between builds so had only Thursday stripped his rig so luckily for me I had a mobo for the day to do some testing. Mem, CPU, GPU and my drives all seem to be fine. Now, I have an 8700K (NOT a good clocker I must add) and little money so do I now go for a Z390 and if so any real user recommendations? I personally have given up with reviews and much prefer a good recommendation from someone that has used something day to day.

My working hardware:
8700K
Sapphire Nitro 5700XT
16G Cors VengRGB DDR4 3000
Samsung 250GB 960 Evo NVMe
EVGA Nu Audio
Seasonic Focus PX-850 850W 80+ Platinum
 
You would be better selling your 8700k and going with either Intel 10th gen or ryzen rather than investing in another board for the 8700k which isn't a good clocker!.
 
Thanks for the reply and I must admit this is something I am now considering. With the current situation my money is tight so maybe something like the Ryzen 3600 would be a good buy considering the ££££. Not going to be able to stretch to the new Intel's I don't think.

And with reference to my bad clocker, it's dreadful. At stock with XMP its fine but even trying to sync all cores at 4.7 it fails in prime. I have had several friends who are comfortable with overclocking have a look at it and the were all left rather baffled.

Anyway, maybe a change to team red would be nice. Would I need to change my Corsair DDR4 3000 for something better do you think?
 
You could probably pick up a B450 and a ryzen 5 3600 for the money you could get from the 8700k. 3000mhz ram is just about enough for ryzen so you should be good, you could always try a bit of memory overclocking but generally unless your gaming at 1080p and CPU limited then the ram won't effect fps much.

Msi do the best B450s in the tomahawk max, mortar max and pro carbon if you need wifi. If you wanted to push the boat out then X570 are the high tier options with the X570 tomahawk being a very nice option. B550 are coming in about 3 weeks but these are quite a jump in price from B450 so not really worth it and for what you would be paying you might aswell just go X570.
 
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Definitely. Sell your 8700k the buy B450 Tonahawk Max - £100, 1600AF (£90) or 3600 (£170)

you probably won’t have to fork out that much after the sale of the CPU
 
Thank you guys for all for your help. I am just looking into B450 motherboards. Seems the MSI Tomahawk is by far the best option. Just trying to sort out a cooler now. I have the NH-U12S but lost the box when we moved so have no mounting kit for AM4.

Really appreciate the advice :-)
 
ironmysox said:
Thank you guys for all for your help. I am just looking into B450 motherboards. Seems the MSI Tomahawk is by far the best option. Just trying to sort out a cooler now. I have the NH-U12S but lost the box when we moved so have no mounting kit for AM4.

Really appreciate the advice :)
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The AMD CPUs come with Heatsink and fan. So you don’t have to worry about it for now.
 
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