Need help choosing a Z370

Those are all good boards, and would serve you well from a quality standpoint.

Beyond that you could pick from brand pref, aesthetics, specific port availibility, and such.
 
I’ve had good luck with Asus. On the other hand, I’ve been thinking about going MSI one of these times. I probably wouldn’t recommend Gigabyte, the Z170 board I had was very unstable and I had to return it.
 
Warranty service should be #1, features can be added on.
You have FOMO bc of motherboard options?
The option I value most is that it turns on and everything works for as long as I care to own it.

I liked Asus, then they kept 3 RMA'd 7970's for a couple years and I had to hound them to get them back.
EVGA has a set of options for warranty replacement to cover whatever need.

MSI's customer servie isn't bad as long as you are the original owner and snapped a pic of your receipt from an authorized dealer.
 
I went with asrock and their ASRock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6 board and will try to explain my reasons.

Asus seem to have adopted a practice in recent years of moving features that were on their mainstream boards to premium boards only, the lower priced boards dont even come wirh a q-connector anymore. They hide this from the public by simply not having any media review these boards, they play on the fact people tend to only review free goodies and simply dont send the low end boards out for review.

I looked at asus's comparison site, and not a single one of their boards was fully featured, different boards had different bios features missing, different sockets missing, also none of their z370 boards have an asmedia sata controller now, meaningonly 6 sata ports and I have 8 sata devices in my PC. All asrock boards have a fully featured bios as an example.

The asrock board I chose has more features than some asus boards at twice the price have, reinforced pcie slots, 12k capacitors, onboard power/reset buttons, diagnostic code thingy, it also has the asmedia sata controller, usb 3.1 type c front header, ps/2 port (ommited now from most asus boards), more included accessories (Compared to asus products at same price point), apparently the best power delivery hardware on the z370 market, and rgb if you into that sort of thing. Also an extra LAN port.

I did consider gigabyte but people are posting bad reports in numbers higher than I liked, and their bios seems poor as well. Asrock bios is probably worse than asus as asus have adaptive voltage which noone seems to have copied, but I think its better than gigabye.

This board seems to be generally rated highly in lots of places.
 
Yea, thats usually how it goes. I did the same when looking for my X370, the brands like Asus or MSI had less ports / features with a higher price tag. Not to mention weaker VRMs.
Pretty happy with my X370 Taichi, its a solid board. For the Z370 I've heard really good stuff about the Z370 Extreme4, but if you want something more high end, then the Taichi or Fatal1ty are good options.
 
Yea, thats usually how it goes. I did the same when looking for my X370, the brands like Asus or MSI had less ports / features with a higher price tag. Not to mention weaker VRMs.
Pretty happy with my X370 Taichi, its a solid board. For the Z370 I've heard really good stuff about the Z370 Extreme4, but if you want something more high end, then the Taichi or Fatal1ty are good options.


Well it's not exactly like years back. going more to where not really needed more phase count or strongest in that area. pretty weak section can still support quite the clock.
 
Got the gigabyte Z370 gaming 7. Here's my quick run-down for you:
Pros
Build quality
Southbridge cooling
Lots of fan headers

Cons
VRM heatsinks should be more built (weakass tiny fan is included)
Too many LEDs
Only 6 SATA ports

I've only just really installed it and started working on it so this is a very cursory view of things. I already removed the I/O shroud prior to install and the little VRM fan (plan to put a much better one on them) so I can put a larger HSF in without issue. I have spent almost no time OCing yet so that's another big part that's missing in my current pros/cons.
 
There is even a post on asus own forums where raja told a customer, that if he buys a prime board, they shouldnt expect certain overclocking features to work even tho they advertised and in the bios. Years back you could be sure even low end asus boards could handle overclocking properly.
 
There is even a post on asus own forums where raja told a customer, that if he buys a prime board, they shouldnt expect certain overclocking features to work even tho they advertised and in the bios. Years back you could be sure even low end asus boards could handle overclocking properly.

You can't sell product that doesn't perform as advertised in the state of California.

You can't deny warranty within it's terms.

Apple was sued and had to comply.

Isn't Asus's US presence in SoCal?

CA Attorney General has a division that will look into this.
Link them to the post.
 
I am not bothered enough to do that ;)

The issue was the asus rep said the power delivery on some of their boards with a z370 chipset are not ample enough to use the highest LLC modes.

If you are curious I will look for the post later, if you want to google its titled something like broken LLC on z370 strix, the subject kicked off from OC3D reporting the issue to asus who didnt immediately fix it (they later fixed for strix boards but not lower prime boards).

The boards have various voltage features advertised on their product pages, and on the box says they overclocking boards.

The issue I have is in the past the entire overclocking range from asus would at least work fine for AIR based normal overclocking, whilst the extreme boards were only really needed for extreme overclocks, that no longer seems to be the case due to the tinkering on the lower boards.
 
I am not bothered enough to do that ;)

The issue was the asus rep said the power delivery on some of their boards with a z370 chipset are not ample enough to use the highest LLC modes.

If you are curious I will look for the post later, if you want to google its titled something like broken LLC on z370 strix, the subject kicked off from OC3D reporting the issue to asus who didnt immediately fix it (they later fixed for strix boards but not lower prime boards).

The boards have various voltage features advertised on their product pages, and on the box says they overclocking boards.

The issue I have is in the past the entire overclocking range from asus would at least work fine for AIR based normal overclocking, whilst the extreme boards were only really needed for extreme overclocks, that no longer seems to be the case due to the tinkering on the lower boards.

I push very basic clocks, more like bumping the timing on a motor and adjusting air fuel to make a stock motor as healthy as it's going to be without doing any real motor mods.

I play a lot of Civ 6, maybe Fortnite, but my GPU is taking the brunt of it.

Most of my use lately has been troubleshooting Lambda functions and teaching my Dev teams to take more ownership of their environments.

I'm pretty much live my working hours on a Mac, mostly in Chrome and terminal.

I've gotten this bug lately to start recording my sessions bc I find myself saying or teaching the same things over and over again. Cloudtrail+Cloudwatch+Atom and go bug hunt bad strings referring to things that either don't exist bc a template launched without resource order....typos...straight up bad assumptions in YAML/JASON/Python.

That's what drove me to updating my personal desktop PC.

It's been Groundhog Day where dudes will.roll up to my desk and tell me something in AWS doesn't work. I burn a bunch of time explaining how to troubleshoot it to the point deja Vu has been hitting me a lot lately.
 
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