With all the new U platforms this year, picking just a single motherboard is difficult. We've seen plenty of great offerings for virtually every chipset, but a great motherboard only goes so far—it needs to Ryzen and X370.)
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The U of the Year—this is a board designed for the Core i7-8700K and overclocking.
If you're putting together a new rig where price is no object, the extraordinary Asus X299 Rampage VI Extreme gets the nod, which you could then pair with an 18-core i9-7980XE, but at $650 and with so few being made it's more of a status symbol for Asus than the real-world Maximus X Hero, which is easy to find and still hits home-runs all day long. Plus it's a far more sensible choice for a gaming-centric build.
