2017 Hardware Thread

For every one planning a new build with the new 6 core coffee lake chips, if you are going to overclock them, you might want to find out what the power draw is, at 5GHz, and see if your current PSU will be enough, Remember 6 cores, and more Vcc pins(Vcore pins).
Just a thought anyhow:)

pparks1 said:

Brink,
From my reading it comes down to whether gaming is your #1 concern. If so, I believe the 8700K is the better route.


For everyone else, in my consideration of a new build, I'm looking at the Intel Core i7-8700k and the Core i5-8600K. My last few builds have used Gigabyte mobo's. I've also used Asus boards in the past.

Does anybody have a strong recommendation between Gigabyte, Asus, or MSI for a new Z370 mobo for a new Coffee lake build?

I use Gigabyte Gpu's the Mobo's let me down i went back to my Ace in the hole Asrock been solid since Pentium and mmx days

Also most Asus offerings are more feature Rich

pparks1 said:

Brink,
From my reading it comes down to whether gaming is your #1 concern. If so, I believe the 8700K is the better route.


For everyone else, in my consideration of a new build, I'm looking at the Intel Core i7-8700k and the Core i5-8600K. My last few builds have used Gigabyte mobo's. I've also used Asus boards in the past.

Does anybody have a strong recommendation between Gigabyte, Asus, or MSI for a new Z370 mobo for a new Coffee lake build?

I'm a big fan of Asus boards.

essenbe said:

I'm a big fan of Asus boards.

Gigabyte here :)

What would be the purpose of going from a Z270 or even a Z170 to a Z370 ??

The only logical step I would take is upping to a X board if you already own a Z170, Z270 etc

I never said you could, they share the same socket, but that's as far as it goes.