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Intel "Coffee Lake" Builders Thread

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I put one on backorder, so I guess it's not too big of a deal. It'll give me some time to decide on what I want to do with memory and such. I was going to build two with one being an i3 that would replace my older Ivy Bridge i5, but I figured it would be easier to just shuffle my systems down instead.
 
Same. One on backorder and then set amazon to auto-notify in case they get it first. I suppose it's all well and good since motherboards are scarce too but I'm dying to get this build going. Oh well.
 
Organized_Chaos said:
Same. One on backorder and then set amazon to auto-notify in case they get it first. I suppose it's all well and good since motherboards are scarce too but I'm dying to get this build going. Oh well.
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Which board are you looking at? I was originally considering the Maximus Hero, but since it went out of stock, I went with the ASRock Z370 Professional Gaming. I'll admit that I kind of got suckered in by the prospect of built-in 10GBase-T ... even though I have no other devices that support it. 😛 I was tempted to pick up this 32GB pack of Corsair DDR4 4000 as it's on sale for a pretty good price, but it isn't on the QVL.
 
Aikouka said:
Which board are you looking at? I was originally considering the Maximus Hero, but since it went out of stock, I went with the ASRock Z370 Professional Gaming. I'll admit that I kind of got suckered in by the prospect of built-in 10GBase-T ... even though I have no other devices that support it. 😛 I was tempted to pick up this 32GB pack of Corsair DDR4 4000 as it's on sale for a pretty good price, but it isn't on the QVL.
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Well, when I was contemplating Kaby Lake (I think in an earlier post I incorrectly said Skylake) a few months back I had been looking at the z270 Maximus Hero, so the z370 variety of that board was going to be a likely contender. I'm putting more money into this build than I have done with any previous ones, so I was kind of taking it a few steps at a time - was going to try and nab the cpu tonight and then knock out the motherboard, memory and video card late this week or next. Then move on from there. Looking at the empty case in the corner of the room is going to get depressing fast..
 
Aikouka said:
Which board are you looking at? I was originally considering the Maximus Hero, but since it went out of stock, I went with the ASRock Z370 Professional Gaming. I'll admit that I kind of got suckered in by the prospect of built-in 10GBase-T ... even though I have no other devices that support it. 😛 I was tempted to pick up this 32GB pack of Corsair DDR4 4000 as it's on sale for a pretty good price, but it isn't on the QVL.
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Pick it up QVL will be updated anyway.
 
Organized_Chaos said:
Well, when I was contemplating Kaby Lake (I think in an earlier post I incorrectly said Skylake) a few months back I had been looking at the z270 Maximus Hero, so the z370 variety of that board was going to be a likely contender. I'm putting more money into this build than I have done with any previous ones, so I was kind of taking it a few steps at a time - was going to try and nab the cpu tonight and then knock out the motherboard, memory and video card late this week or next. Then move on from there. Looking at the empty case in the corner of the room is going to get depressing fast..
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I've always been a bit on the fence about how much fancier motherboards cost. The reason why I have the Z270 Maximus Hero right now is because I disliked my Z170 MSI board's Killer NIC, but apart from that, I didn't really have any problems. I'd say that if you're a huge OC'er, then you may want to consider boards with good power delivery components, but if not, just make sure it has the features that you want. Apart from that, the board likely won't affect you.

TheF34RChannel said:
Pick it up QVL will be updated anyway.
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Alright, quit twistin' my arm. I picked it up too. 😉 I just need the rest of the junk now!
 
I backordered one from Newegg. Still looking at places like
Neobits
provantage
tigerdirect
compsource
shopblt
Microcenter

Some of the sites have a big markup though(CDW) Im sticking with the big guys as far as purchases.
 
Aikouka said:
ASRock has the M.2 on the front. ASUS has it on the back. That's an insta no buy on the ASUS for me.
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I bought the Asus mITX. It actually has 2 M.2 slots. One on the front and one on the back. That's why I bought it over the ASROCK.
 
Slappi said:
I bought the Asus mITX. It actually has 2 M.2 slots. One on the front and one on the back. That's why I bought it over the ASROCK.
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One in the back. One in the front sharing the chipset heatsink (slots above the chipset, through the heatsink which is 2 pieces).
 
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