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Ethan Knight

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Hello everyone,

I'm picking up either the new 1800X or 1700X (Don't know which yet) and I need a motherboard to go with it. While I want most performance I can get, I'm on a tight budget. This build will be my computer for a long, LONG, time so I need the most performance I can get but I don't want to buy overpriced things.

1) What motherboard do you guys recommend? Idk if B350 or X370 matters or not, and though I'll be running 1 gpu for now I can't speak for the future.

2) Are the Wraith coolers any good? Or should I just buy the CPU and get a liquid cooler? I'm going to want to clock the hell out of this thing as much as I can, but will a liquid cooler offer reasonably more performance over a Wraith?

Thanks in advance guys!
 
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If your budget is that tight you may just want to go for a 1600X which is still a plenty powerful CPU - it's $259 and beats the i7 6850K.

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atomicWAR

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If you plan on even thinking about dual GPU you need to run a x370 chipset as B350 does not support SLI/CF. As for which board i would wait a bit for reviews as much of the info out there now is limited. If you have to choose blindly now I suggest going with asus, gigabyte, asrock in that order by brand (honestly gigabyte and asrock are about the same quality wise)

Wraith coolers are better then many of the other stock coolers but if you can afford an after market cooler an AIO liquid cooler or high end air cooler would be best for cost/performance. Ideally running an open loop water cooler will give you the best temps and can easily be carried over to future build by purchasing a new water block.
 
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Ethan Knight

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I see. I suppose I can wait a week or so before they get legitimately tested.

And can you recommend me any AIOs? I don't want the hassle of an open liquid cooler. I just need something cheap, preferably ~$50 max, otherwise I'll stick to Wraith for now. I'll upgrade later if I decide to go that path.
 
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AIO liquid cooler for $50 is worse than useless, if you can even find one.
 
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yeah the cheapest decent AIO cooler I know of is the Arctic Liquid Freezer 240 which can be had for 89.99 from vendors like newegg and amazon. I have personal experience with this cooler and it does quite well and is very quiet (also have used H100i and prefer the arctic). I was able to overclock my nephews i7 6700K to 4.4ghz 1.22V @ <80C in a SFF case while also maxing his GPU temps at 84C (gtx 1070 OCds by 150mhz GPU 350mhz vram)using a combo of Intel Burntest V2 and 3dmark's Futuremark Firestrike ultra stress test. Great way to test full system stability for all overclocks to ensure crash free gaming sessions. most folks only test one at a time and don't get a truly stable system. Point being It cooled very well for such a small enclosure with everything running full tilt. There some good reviews here...

http://www.eteknix.com/arctic-liquid-freezer-240-aio-cooler-review/
http://proclockers.com/reviews/cooling/arctic-liquid-freezer-240-review?nopaging=1

It is one of the better performing AIO at a very affordable price. It was capable of cooling his chip below 85C up to 4.5GHZ again while maxing out the GPU at the same time. I just choose the lower OC because my nephew lives in the barracks with no AC ;)
 
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Aa has been said , people are desperate to dive straight on the ryzens but personally i'm waiting a couple of months.

Going to let the people with more money than sense do the testing first.

I've already had an opportunity to grab a 1700 without cooler for £50 less than retail preorder price & was massively tempted , but not quite enough.Already got 2 skylake chips sat here still in the boxes so it would just have been a mad impulse buy.

As atomicWAR mentions , we have no idea of board quality either.
The Asus prime b350 is the one that's standing out to me at the minute on a price/performance ratio though.
The 1700x/1800x are goingvyo be made available without coolers after the initial sales run too , no idea on price without but if its even $25-30 less that'll grab you a better aftermarket tower cooler than the wraith
 
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If your budget is that tight you may just want to go for a 1600X which is still a plenty powerful CPU - it's $259 and beats the i7 6850K.



 
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