Weekend stumble = broken mobo :-(

[ironmysox]

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

 

[ironmysox]

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?

 

[ironmysox]

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