Question Need a new motherboard for 8700K for gaming and streaming

[nitrousninja]

My Z370 ITX board died last night. I checked everything else including reseating it, two separate case installs, and different power supplies. I pieced together the best parts of my HTPC and the leftovers from the gaming set up:

Z170 Gigabyte Gaming 5 ITX, 6700K, 2 x 8GB 3200 ram, 1TB SSD, GTX 1080. Its definitely slower then the 8700K just playing Modern Warfare at 1440P with a monitor that will do 165hz

Leftover parts are 8700K, 980Ti, 2 x 8GB 3000Mhz ram, hx750I power supply.


Should I get an ATX motherboard sub $200 and two more matching sticks of ram for 32GB total to use with the 8700K? I would do a mild overclock because overclock.

Sell it all and go Ryzen 3? Or overclock the 6700K and sell leftovers for a better graphics card?

I'm in the mood to upgrade but I'd like it to make sense.

Thank you

 

[Arkaign]

Since you're gaming with a high refresh display and excellent GPU, I'd say your best bet is either get the 8700k back up, or go 9700k/9900k.

Do you game on the HTPC? If not, maybe just go ahead and sell absolutely everything, go 2080S/2080ti and 9700k/9900k type build for all out gaming, and then you can do something really light/cheap/quiet like a Ryzen 2200G for HTPC duties. 8700k and even 6700k still have high resale value.