New built with Kaby Lake CPU

Haven't been in the game of building a PC in a while and a friend wants a Computer with a Gen 7 Kaby Lake CPU. He is on a $800-$900 budget but still needs a good CPU\RAM\MB for Audio and Video Production. I am aiming at the Intel Core i5-7600K, but don't know where to start on a Motherboard or Ram. I do know I want it to have a minimum 16GB Ram. Any recommendation from those who have recently built a PC revolving on a Kaby Lake? Thanks and appreciate any input.

So Far...
Intel Core i5-7600K
Samsung EVO 250GB SSD
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 2TB HDD
Corsair 750Watt PSU

For the board, the ASUS Z270-A offers some great features for under 160.00 it will be hard to find many that offers as much.....For the RAM the supported list is plentiful......

Thanks but I think I can go better than the ASUS Z270-A which doesn't have that great reviews.

Now I am thinking of selling my Motherboard\CPU\Ram and just upgrade myself. The thing that is stopping me is all the problems with motherboard and memory combinations producing a lot of errors in the Z270 chipsets. Also from what I am seeing, I don't know why the Z270 stopped supporting ATAPI DVD drives.

You did say production I would look at R5 on April 11th with a nice GPU. Extra. $ spent on gfx card will mean more fps in Games than Intel vs AMD.

I would go AMD's Ryzen if it saves money and if it is stable.

dja2k said:

I would go AMD's Ryzen if it saves money and if it is stable.

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There are many memory woes on Ryzen at the moment. It's getting ironed out, but they exist.

dja2k said:

I don't know why the Z270 stopped supporting ATAPI DVD drives.

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Where did you get this information.....which is not true.......LOL, if it were true why does every manufacturer ship a DVD with all the drivers and utilities for their boards......

You mentioned also that the ASUS 270 Prime had poor reviews; if you are getting those reviews from amazon or newegg you might look elsewhere for your research.......Is the ASUS the best Z-270 board.....nope, but for the mid price range you will find it difficult to find another board with the same feature set for the price.......

i have the Prime z270-a and it works fine. Using G.skill 3200 TridentZ ram.
Recent bios update is messing with the voltages in some programs but everything seems well.

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Delidded i7 7700k at 5Ghz 1.310v


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