Asus motherboard for Z370? So many models?

HI,

I'm looking for a few Z370 motherboards for 8700k processors. With 64gb of ram. These are workstations, which I've built for years, and for a long time I'd used the sabertooth boards. But now they have gone away and the Asus model list is so extensive I have no idea what to pick or how much to spend. I see the pro gaming -e, -f, -g, -h etc. Plus a slew of others. I'm just looking for stable cpu power and I always overclock to a reasonable level. If anyone has a favorite out of these boards I'd appreciate it. I'm beginning to think I may need to look at other manufacturers as well, I'm not stuck on asus.

Thanks!

yeah the asus naming scheme is a bit confusing, the basic gist is this:

PRIME - "basic" run of the mill boards,
pro gaming - budget "gaming" oriented boards,
ROG - premium "gaming" oriented boards,
TUF - 24/7 "workstation" boards.

the suffixes denote special features and/or form factors.

tl;dr: all of these boards are solid and usually have at least 8 power phases. right now i am running the z170-a, which is one of the cheapest z170 boards with decent OC-capabilities that they make and it works flawlessly. has been for over a year.

do you need certain special features (second NIC, dual M.2, built-in AC) ? if not then go with the PRIME Z370-A and be done with it, no need to go all out.

A TUF is not a WS board. WS boards carry the "WS" in their name and have a totally different RMA handling, and price tag.

TUF is not anymore what it once used to be, sadly.

It doesn't help that Asus has like four entire motherboard divisions that really make it feel like they're competing with themselves a bit, not unlike GM on the car side of things.

-"Channel" (basic consumer run-of-the-mill boards)
-Server/Workstation (the sorta stuff that competes with the likes of Tyan and Supermicro)
-Republic of Gamers (enthusiast overclocking boards with more BIOS/UEFI options than most people know what to do with, and higher-end models geared toward sub-ambient cooling)
-The Ultimate Force or whatever TUF stands now (durability and stability, but with the tackiness of a ROG board)

I'm not entirely sure why TUF actually needs to exist, all things considered; workstation-class stability and support on a consumer-level platform with some of the Channel/ROG overclocking bells and whistles to sell gamers on? It's a weird middle ground, and I'd think that everyone wants a stable platform to build their computer around. (Not too hard nowadays, since we're long past the era of buggy motherboard chipsets.)

Honestly, I echo the sentiment above about just using an (insert chipset here)-A board and being done with it, unless you really need some extra bit of functionality integrated that you can't just slap into one of the many PCI-Express slots.

I have a Asus ROG Strix Z370-E.

Pretty nice and good BIOS interface. Kind of a midrange board, but has lots of features.