Re: Z370 CLASSIFIED K
2019/10/09 19:55:43
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Re. GTX 600;
I have the following system based on an EVGA Z370 CK mainboard, and have been very satisfied
with it over-all except for one minor problem I have detailed in another post .
I don’t blame the board because I still don’t know what causes it .
My advice for the EVGA board is to stick to the QVL list .
Even though that’s no fun ‘cause the list is pretty short .
This board runs my equipment, and software ( games ) flawlessly, and at high speed .
I bought it because I like to overclock my computers when they get old so as to get
a little more life out of them, so why not get an overclocker's board, says I ?
Intel 8086K CPU
EVGA Z370 Classified K M/B in UEFI mode, BIOS ver. 1.14
G.SKILL TridentZ Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200
(PC4 25600) Intel Z370 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C14Q-32GTZ
GIGABYTE AORUS AIC 1TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 3D TLC ToshiBa BiCS3
Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) GP-ASACNE2100TTTDR
( Windows 10 home 64 bit system drive )
LG Electronics WH16NS40 Internal SATA 16x Super Multi Blue DVD burner
HyperX Savage 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SHSS37A/240G
WD Black 1TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING, 08G-P4-6181-KR, 8GB GDDR5X, ACX 3.0 & LED
EVGA SuperNOVA P2 850W Modular Power Supply
LG Electronics 32” Class QHD Gaming Monitor with G-SYNC 32GK850G-B
Logitech USB keyboard, Logitech USB mouse, Xbox1 USB game controller
Anyway, you got me thinking: what is the best modern MB for just reliability, and
compatibility ? So I was fishing around, and happened on an article written by the
president of a local computer boutique co. that I have done satisfying biz with .
In short he says out of the hundreds of MBs they used in 2018 the overall failure
rate was 2.1% . Out of those, the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro WiFi had not one failure .
$180.00 on The River, $190.00 on The Egg .
Now the EVGA people are probably ready to send me on a one way moon trip
right now for saying that, so I’ll quickly add he also says that power supplies failed at
a rate of 1.15% over all, but the EVGA SuperNOVA 1000W P2 had only one
failure, and that was just a noisey fan . EVGA also logged their top video card,
the EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB, with no failures . The NVIDIA Titan Xp
12GB, PNY Quadro P2000PCI-E 5GB, and EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ACX 3.0
all also racked up a failure rate less than 1% .
I take this info. seriously because in a computer building biz one has to have the
most reliable, most compatible parts, or suffer lost profit due to assembly delays,
and unnecessary customer returns . The above are the best of those .
Happy shopping !
cotter32