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I think you should either go and check this board on pcpartpicker and see what RAM are the existing builds are using. It should be fine. You could buy a nice RAM kit with that £50 you save. The airflow is only useful if you use an L9a as it has horizontal finstack. THAT is what pushes the warm air to be blocked by the VRM of most boards. Aside from this, Gigabyte is good board as it's more suitable for higher core cpu's and it's stucture is fit for large tower coolers, so it's potential is paid, but not used here. If you grab that' you'll be happy still, it's just that the ASRock here in my opinion paired with an L9a is better value overall and I see the idea of not investing too much into AM4 nowm, but fully utilizing it as the better step.Still, grabbing a cheap LGA 1700 board with a 12-13400 can also be a solid choice as they run even cooler according to the post a few pages back here.As for the Blackridge, I would most probably not use it due to it's compatibility issues with large VRM's and M.2 heatsinks + mostly due to it completely blocking the fan, s owhenever you feel like cleaning it (since removing the side panel is easy with this case), you can't - unless you tear down your build completely. And I mean take out the psu, mobo and the cooler from it then clean and repaste - all just to be able to unscrew that fan. Oh, and you have to buy a noctua fan in addition to swap it.
I think you should either go and check this board on pcpartpicker and see what RAM are the existing builds are using. It should be fine. You could buy a nice RAM kit with that £50 you save. The airflow is only useful if you use an L9a as it has horizontal finstack. THAT is what pushes the warm air to be blocked by the VRM of most boards. Aside from this, Gigabyte is good board as it's more suitable for higher core cpu's and it's stucture is fit for large tower coolers, so it's potential is paid, but not used here. If you grab that' you'll be happy still, it's just that the ASRock here in my opinion paired with an L9a is better value overall and I see the idea of not investing too much into AM4 nowm, but fully utilizing it as the better step.
Still, grabbing a cheap LGA 1700 board with a 12-13400 can also be a solid choice as they run even cooler according to the post a few pages back here.
As for the Blackridge, I would most probably not use it due to it's compatibility issues with large VRM's and M.2 heatsinks + mostly due to it completely blocking the fan, s owhenever you feel like cleaning it (since removing the side panel is easy with this case), you can't - unless you tear down your build completely. And I mean take out the psu, mobo and the cooler from it then clean and repaste - all just to be able to unscrew that fan. Oh, and you have to buy a noctua fan in addition to swap it.
