Motherboard Deals & Offers

100% agree, right place at the right time is usually just lucky or not. Let's also now set it straight, unless you are saving a huge sum of cash, then there is no reason not to spend an extra £5-10, especially if it is for a personal build that may last many years. :)

No I was shopping for RAM at the time to sell a build, and I just looked on Amazon as they have so many ways to get money off. Let's be brutally honest, what I bought made sense to buy against other prices at the time, compared to the difference in performance. That is what we are talking about, as for the other guy who mentioned 40% difference in performance is just off their face... My point is that there is always ways to buy items cheaper than what is on this site, you just have to use common sense.

You completely missed the point, the RAM you bought in May was as item misprice, not the normal price.I am asking you to post misprice deals, as without the misprice, even using the the coupons and credits etc. the price difference would have still be pretty much nothing compared to a faster RAM kit. How did you find the cheap discounded RAM in May, was it on here?

It's on everything... There is no point posting deals that all require the same process. I have Smash Bros Ultimate pre-ordered at £32.99, Pokémon Let's Go Eevee and Pokeball for £47.99. All through Amazon, all using the same offers on different accounts. It's not difficult to do, there is still an in-store promo for £10 when you top up £30. There is also £6 promo credit for buying £30 gift cards... All available very easily... There was £15 off £60 recently etc...

I'm seeing A LOT of comments along the lines of "you'll not see the difference with the naked eye" and "I guarantee you would not tell the difference if you had faster RAM in your system" ... It seems to me that you can only think this to be true if you're either 1) assuming that everyone only uses 60hz monitor for games, or 2) subscribe to one of those ridiculous "the human eye can only see 24fps" type of notions. Both of these notions are laughable, and not to be taken seriously. Similarly, a person trying to tell other people generally what kind of performance differences they will and will not see, whilst evidence in the thread has been presented showing up to 40% differences in performance, should not be taken seriously either. When benchmarks have been presented demonstrating this opinions wrong, then they are wrong generally, even if the individual's subjective capacities aren't able to see or understand why. Making suggestions for the broad population based on such could be considered misleading too.

Because its not a £300 dell...

Good price, no idea why so cold. Heat from me.

That's actually a decent price for a 1070 laptop. I doubt you'll find an 8th gen i7 + 1070 for anywhere near that price

Have looked at this laptop. At this money would want latest Gen processor. Anyone know of anywhere with a GTX 1070 Graphics card with 8th Gen which does not have poor overheating reviews? Nearly bought a HP Omen similar spec with smaller but better screen and 8th Gen but lots reviews saying gets super hot within minutes.

This bundle would be good if they swap that Aorus motherboard for the Asrock Taichi

Processor 270 few months ago, now total bonanza I wouldn't buy already year old processor for that money, motherboard I dont want it for free, but 130, this ram max 130, ssd "no name " no more than 50 pounds, total sum 580. 800 is just a joke, for that money should be sold together with gtx1070

Buy separatelly

Its intel. people will pay whatever intel want them to either through complete ignorance or deluded fantasy.

The price must have increased since I posted. It was 379.99 at the time of posting. This processor has been as low as £315 before

Back at £499 now

Yes i know... miners:D They kept AMD alive. Good thing its a miners forum. Oh wait... AMD cant get even close to nvidia when it coms to performance/watt/price. I cant belive where they ended up having in mind times like 5870 vs Fermi. Its exactly oposit. 5870 VaporX was masterpiece. Now, look at the size of the cooler on VEGA:/

vrm temps are bad on strix amd cards

Yes. Good card, even better at this price. There's not much my 56 can't run that my 1080 can. In certain scenarios it's more powerful than an equivalent NVIDIA card too - miners will attest to that.

is it?

Still havent had my codes deliverd yet

Appreciated that you checked. All back online now so will process ma vouchies now. Ta.

Ah I see what you mean; yeah, I'm getting the same. Website borked.

I've not managed to upload - I can't even view the site!

File size of the image you're uploading?

So is your comment

This guy allways saying something negative

Yeah, I'll provably end up getting one of these. I want to try it with my freesync 2 monitor. A gtx 970 doesn't really do it justice.

Happy chappy on 1440p, its more than enough for this resolution i think.

Just bought a similar spec Samsung monitor. I was thinking of upgrading to one of these cards from a gtx 970. How do you find this card for running games at 1440p?

Good find OP!

Cheers mate

FYI amazon is giving an in stock date of 21st September for this cpu at 303gbp

Maybe but you wont get the free stuff with a drop. The price sort of reflects this now, plus I doubt this board will ever sell for 100, selling the free parts easily gives you back 50 pound.s Not to mention this board is priced around 175 - 200 everywhere else, good luck getting a 40-50% discount on a decent board that still works with the newest gen with a bios update (updates already released on website). Early news says that the z390 are very similar, you may get a better vrm and onchip wifi. but this board solves that anyway. Cant see the real difference in z370 vs z390

But wont these drop further when the Z390 is released in couple of weeks?

Do NOT go for the Defiance V, i had a 8750h/1070 and it has nothing but issues. Main issue is the chassis can not cool the CPU anywhere near adequately, i paid for the re paste and the cpu would sky rocket to 95-99c on all cores within 5 minutes of bf1, and to 90c before the game had even begun loading. Tried to repaste it myself even with liquid metal, and a substantial 0.150v undervolt and the it would still thermally throttle almost instantly while playing anything demanding. I contacted PCS about the issues and they advised me they had a new bios that "fixed" the issues, i asked them how it went about that since if the new bios just puts in a power limit or lower thermal limit it is not a "fix" in my eyes. They assured me it didn't and i went about installing the new bios. Surprise surprise all the bios did was lower the thermal limit from 99 to 85 and introduced lower power limits system wide. Supposedly it was also meant to reduced the base line voltage but i did not witness that. So i then had an over heating laptop, just with gimped performance that power throttled as well as thermal throttled. This isn't including all the other issues but i don't want to turn this into a wall of text. I had to argue with PCS when i returned it as they were going to send the laptop back as it didn't crash during a stress test so in their eyes was perfectly fine, after a few back and forth emails they finally agreed to refund it due to the power limit and thermal limit issues, though they did sting me for the charger which was £55 because it was apparently "scuffed" (it was not) Bottom line, i would strongly recommend people steer clear of this chassis, it can not handle the CPU and gets so hot and loud it's uncomfortable to use, and throttles so much you won't get the performance you should out of the 8750h.

This is a good spec and a reasonable price... but... You should decide if you really do need a laptop to game on rather than a small form factor desktop instead. Given the price, performance, and update-path differences. A lot of people seem to get these huge gaming laptops and then realise that PC gaming on the move isn't really practical, not for AAA titles any way, and given you don't need a beefy laptop to run basic games it feels like a bit of a waste. Especially when having it on your lap isn't really practical when it's over 15 inches, will cook your nads, and have a pretty awful battery life. Granted you can't take your mITX rig on the train, but who wants to be the selfish guy hogging up the entire train table so he can play CoD? Also, do you really want to throw your entire machine away after 3-5 years? Wouldn't it be better to drop a better GPU in? Maybe upgrade the CPU? Also laptop i7s are only really as fast as their desktop i5 counterparts, for example the i7-8750H in this machine is slightly slower than the i5-8600k.Plus the desktop is more easily overclocked. If I wanted a small rig around this price I'd build I would 100% build a SSF system using the Silverstone RVZ01 which is about the same size as a PS4/Xbone. PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/FQPBFt Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/FQPBFt/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel - Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor (£225.18 @ PC World Business) CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-L12S 55.4 CFM CPU Cooler (£45.75 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: ASRock - Z370M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard (£128.98 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£126.84 @ Amazon UK) Storage: ADATA - XPG SX6000 256GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£58.03 @ CCL Computers) Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.99 @ Aria PC) Video Card: PNY - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Video Card (£337.07 @ Amazon UK) Case: Silverstone - RVZ01B Mini ITX Desktop Case (£86.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Power Supply: Silverstone - 500W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply (£80.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£60.00 @ Amazon UK) Monitor: AOC - G2460PF 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor (£179.98 @ PC World) Total: £1359.80 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-12 12:47 BST+0100 Run that for a few years and maybe grab a second hand i7-8700K, and what ever the equivalent to a 1070Ti is then. Sell your other parts and you'll have a proper upgrade path, plus you can choose what keyboard you like rather than using a built in one. If you wanted to go cheaper you could forgo the official way of getting Windows 10 and get a key off of eBay, you could also pick a cheaper cube case. The machine is small and could easily pass for a games console, so hook up a controller and enjoy your games at 4K on the sofa. If anyone wants any further advice/information PM me.

Personally, I would look at PC Specialist & configure it to suit. I specced a near identical 17" Defiance V for about the same cost, but if you consider other components, you could get a similar machine for a fair bit less.

This or Alienware?

Neg me harder daddy

Don't think this supports ESXi so if you need that you'll need one of the others

These are expensive for a reason though. High end VRMs, extra layers for all the PCI-E lanes, quad channel RAM. WiFi, dual LAN. AMD also don’t ditch a chipset with every minor CPU revision like Intel. I’d pay extra just for that tbh

I dont think I will, I am not sure my system could take the shock of a mobo even MORE expensive than this.

Same here. But this is to be expected as the whole platform is considered to be for enthusiasts/content creators.

Yeh, but the CPU's are cheap as chips. (embarrassed)

Just received a refurb Z270 board from Novatech - it came in a plain white box with just the IO shield.

From the ones I've had, it's been all the usual documents, driver CD, 2 or 4 Sata cables and the IO shield.

Do you get all cables/accessories with the refurb boards? Just read board and back plate only.

I had a Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 motherboard which I built a system around , I had a repeated problems with the system randomly rebooting for no apparent reason. I spent a couple of weeks playing with drivers and hardware and eventually decided to open a support call to Gigabyte and told them all the testing I'd done myself. After a couple of extra tests they asked me to return the motherboard and they replaced it with a slightly updated version. I guess this is where the returned boards go if they can repair them, I'm not sure If I'd want a repaired board, finding the cause of issues like this is not much fun.

Solid board, I've always used Gigabyte D3 boards over the years as I've upgraded and I've never had an issues with them, it'd be interesting to learn what exactly is "manufacturer repaired" about this specific one though.

link not working for me; hukd links broken by ublock origin again? :edit: oh, spoke too soon - forwarding host just very slow.

More ram as well, this one has 16GB

So, for 250 quid more I am paying for a faster CPU?

Just realised that the cpu on the scan one is different.

Thats a different one, i posted that one as well

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