Returning to Hardware what to get

[Mikado_Wu]

Hello all,

Short version -

Building first rig in LONG Time - Last home built was a dual Processor Abit Pentium 4, before that a Dual Processor Tyan Pentium Pro.

Who is making the most stable motherboard? Stability is more important than performance to me. I want to come home turn on, and not have to tweak it. The Ali chipset in the old Abit board, constantly gave stability issues.

I am a Windows User and will be running multiple Hyper-V sessions.

AMD or Intel?
1. Stability and Reliability is my main concern. I do not want to come home to flaky computer.
2. Temperature. AC in our home is flakey. A first Gen i7-920, flat out cooks a room. 3rd Gen i7, drops room temp by 5-8 degrees.

If AMD, I assume I am getting the new Ryzen. I stopped using AMD in the 90s because the chipsets where always flakey. Who is making the best MB?

If Intel, 7th or 8th gen?
1. concerned by the reports on how hot the 8th gen works.

 

[daveybrat]

1) Thankfully if you choose an Intel or AMD motherboard you will only get an Intel or AMD chipset on the motherboard. There is no longer Ali, SIS, VIA, and other low-end chipsets.

2) With the latest bios i've found AMD Ryzen builds to be just as stable as an Intel.

3) The 8th gen cpu's will be hotter because they're squeezing an extra 2 cores onto the die for all cpu's.

4) I personally would recommend Gigabyte or ASRock for reliability.

5) If i could recommend the best bang for the buck right now it'd be an AMD Ryzen R5 1600 (comes with a great stock heatsink/fan) and is only 65Watts.

And this is one of the best/stable motherboards for the price (and premium audio)

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...91&cm_re=b350_gaming_3-_-13-128-991-_-Product

 

[Ajay]

What are the main applications you run (web/MS office, games, etc.)?

 

[Ratman6161]

For running multiple he's at the same time more cores and threads are better and more ram is even more important.

Right now you get more cores and threads with Ryzen than with Intel, at least for the time being. In fact you get more cores at a lower price point to. For this purpose I ended with an overcooked R5 1600. From there its just a matter of how much you want to spend. Move up to the 1600x if you don't want to overclock or an R7 if you are willing to spend more.

Chipset wise, a b350 motherboard is good if you don't need a lot of PCIe lanes. 370 board if you do or if you want a better chance at a high overclock. In my case I went with a b350 and still got an OK 3.8 GHz. PCIe wise, after installing an x16 video card and a x4 NVMe SSD, I've got nothing left but x1 slots but that's ok for my purposes. If you need more, go with the 370 chipset.

Brand wise, I've always had great luck with ASROCK. But for every brand, you will find equal numbers of people who swear by them and people who hate them so take it all with a grain of salt.