www.evga.com/h370
 

 

 

 

Well.
Would you look at that.
And no one would ever suspect you guys would made a H370 MB.

Nice job! 

No USB Type-C, and as an H370-based board, it's unknown at this time if this would support overclocking K-series CPUs (initial announcements indicate 'no'). It also lacks support for faster system memory. That's two, potentially three major downgrades over my Z270 stinger.
 
On top of that, it looks like EVGA's engineers are still struggling with:
 

• getting the USB headers around the edges, where they should be, and where everyone else places them (Kudos for at least moving the 3.0/3.1 gen 1 header to the edge this time)
• pre-installing the wifi card and antenna connections, like literally everyone else

Pricing has never been the strong suit of the Stinger series. You paid for a product with fewer features than the competition, but better warranty and customer service. But potentially lacking overclocking and support for > DDR4-2667, it's going to be VERY hard for EVGA to sell this at the typical Stinger launch price of $179-$199 when you can get the Gigabyte Z370N for ~$150 and have been able to for awhile. So I'll be curious to see what the MSRP is for this board. At $99 it has a market, but the Asrock Z370m is only $15 more at that point.

https://ark.intel.com/products/133284/Intel-H370-Chipset

H370 does not support overclocking, so K sku CPUs would literally be a waste of money. That took 2 seconds to find on google. I can not wait to see all of the complaints about not being able to overclock from people that don’t research the simplest of things.

As for the evga board, it is good to see them expanding their arsenal.

the_Scarlet_one
https://ark.intel.com/pro...284/Intel-H370-Chipset

H370 does not support overclocking, so K sku CPUs would literally be a waste of money. That took 2 seconds to find on google. I can not wait to see all of the complaints about not being able to overclock from people that don’t research the simplest of things.

B85 can't overclock either, but the Gigbayte G1 Sniper B6, which uses B85, can overclock K-series CPUs.
 
In the past, gamer-variants of non-OC chipsets have allowed overclocking in some cases. So it would be foolish to assume that just because the main chipset doesn't natively support overclocking, that someone won't get it working.
 
Might want to spend more than 2 seconds on Google.

I guess we will have to wait and see what EVGA does, since they normally advertise overclocking when it overclocking is available.

jasonkresge
B85 can't overclock either, but the Gigbayte G1 Sniper B6, which uses B85, can overclock K-series CPUs.
 
In the past, gamer-variants of non-OC chipsets have allowed overclocking in some cases. So it would be foolish to assume that just because the main chipset doesn't natively support overclocking, that someone won't get it working.
 
Might want to spend more than 2 seconds on Google.

https://twitter.com/the_s...81313600873816064?s=21

Question asked and answered. So, as stated after 2 seconds on google and then 5 on twitter, no.

the_Scarlet_one
I can not wait to see all of the complaints about not being able to overclock from people that don’t research the simplest of things.

+1.
Everytime, in every new generation of chipsets.

the_Scarlet_one

https://twitter.com/the_s...81313600873816064?s=21

Question asked and answered. So, as stated after 2 seconds on google and then 5 on twitter, no.

I saw that you were the one to ask the question on Twitter. Also, you deliberately misrepresented my stance. All this because that 2 seconds on Google didn't show you that even if a chipset doesn't natively support overclocking, a 3rd party vendor can add in support, and thus, it was a viable concern.
 
But thanks for doing the legwork for me :)

its pretty much a given that H chips don't support over clocking, not so much with the chip but that's how intel wants it, you want tweaker friendly oc hardware then it Z series and k cpu's. as for this board i guess the price will be the proving point, if its priced like a z370 then it will fail, reputation only carries so far and for the average day user (where this board is aimed it seems ) there are plenty of options, i have been using gigabyte itx boards since the h97 and they are great, good features and low price, this could be in that relm if the price is right, $110~125 would be were it needs to be