Seen it on CES. Still prefer the lianli dan A4 H2O haha.

Not hitting alderlake?
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B660I-...-DDR4-rev-1x#kf
For low end stuff bios shouldnt matter at all i suppose, so gigabyte should be fine.

But it is very good price performance especially against AMD right now despite DDR5. It's basically pitched against a much more expensive 5800x rig with a board with more expansion ports than x570 and faster wifi.

Also DDR5 is now cheaper than samsung bdies already... can find below 1.2k liao for 32gb.... but all i find are still samsungs zzzz

If wait, may as well go raptorlake already i feel will very likely be my situation especially being not able to find any hynix kits. Klevv is taking damn long to release their ddr5.

DDR4 after going through multiple kits... micron and hynix, i wont bother with any kits unless it's samsung B die. And they're almost RM1.5K nowadays. So those kits i wont bother at all unless if it's building rig for my sister.

Likewise will do the same with DDR5. Aint gonna waste time with other kits even if the bin is good. A cheap fury beast 5200c40 hynix that is currently 390sgd will easily get the job done (i was quoted RM1100 but turns out to be samsung haiyaaa).

Everytime i go office once a week, will drop by simlim and walk every pc shop to see their fury beast SKU to find the hynix one lolol. Until some shop can recognize me and started treating me coldly

why need so many pc? all used in different place?

Sounds good. I also think midrange builder will just run their RAM on the XMP speed, and not anything beyond.
As for the VRM, as long as can boost to the CPU top speed and won't throttle by VRM power or heat, good enough for gaming already. Most people who buys a i5 k-series is most probably going to use it mainly for gaming.

apa logic ni

b660 strix -e gaming >maximus z390 hero

u are looking at the gen to gen market segment numbering expecting same price eventhough features are alot more.

Asrock failed......

https://www.techspot.com/review/2424-asrock...therboard-fail/

anyone still remember Soyo ? at least they can come out better board than asrock

5800X3D competing with 12900k is fucking dumb anyways. It's smart marketing from AMD, sure perhaps it may actually trade blows with the 12900k but they conveniently forgot the 12700k hoping people don't realize that it's also pretty much as fast as the 12900k in gaming.

So the pricing of the 5800X3D is moronic for one because it's more expensive than a 12700k and at best it's only going to trade blows with it.

DFI lanparty with UV reactive sockets please

K series CPU and motherboard cannot use B, must on be Z series.

Don’t have build in wifi card and no usb type c with no hdmi port ?

The USB-C is a good compromise for the price if it perform good. Can still use the USB-C port at the front of the case.

coming soon,

https://www.techpowerup.com/294512/g-skill-...cl28-memory-kit

won't be long before it hits cl20

https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-announ...-related-issues

For anybody with an AORUS Z690I Ultra out there.

Just reinstates that you should always avoid Gigabyte at all costs when it comes to motherboards. For the most parts it's the sub par BIOS... this time they even screwed up even bigger.

360 AIO

I read MSI BIOS default setting is cranked higher than normal.