Asrock seems to be also making mITX boards with less robust VRM cooling. Those smaller heat sink will let me fit my CPU cooler.

Too bad the price of i7-10700K made the 9900K looks bad.

Can't wait for i7-11700F reviews, especially with B560 boards. Not interested with i9, Z590 or RAM speed beyond 3600 because I can't maximize its potential in my SFFPC.

Already got a rev.E 3200C16, don't plan to go thru the trouble of replacing them just for few % since I'm also going to stick with whatever boost put into i7-11700F. It's base clock of 2.5GHz is lower than i7-10700F 2.9GHz, which is why it's interesting to see some numbers comparing these 2 and good thing some of the YT reviews uses 3200CL14 kit for benchmark.

Heck maybe some numbers comparing between Z590 and B560 motherboards will be great content too.

I use on-board ALC1220 for gaming because combined with AutoEQ+HeSuVi, it give me very good directional in 7.1 supported games.

As for video from web browser (Youtube and FB etc), I just use the crap Acer monitor built in DAC (via DisplayPort) and speakers.

I also use Schiit Stack mainly for music and non-competitive games.

So yeah, I do wish my next board will at least have a ALC1220 so too bad all of the budget B560 boards doesn't have it.

Can B560 motherboard uncap the power limit and let the non-K series CPU boost without any time limit?

Thanks! so the B560 Steel Legend allows setting any W in the BIOS. Now I wonder if anyone has stumbled on a B560 which doesn't allow that...

If that's the case, then I many reviews will not be showing real world performance if they stick to Intel spec. I think the there will be quite a big performance penalty in gaming performance with the CPU capped, especially for high-FPS games.

The F-series are slightly cheaper, so they're not exactly free, but they are very cheap add-on considering how terrible the GPU market is right now.

Is it that much faster for people who wanted to buy and OC the CPU on day one? Like RM200 faster than the i7-10700k once OC? It's also RM340 premium over the none-K.

Then again those price difference are nothing compared to the crazy GPU prices. LOL

Yeah, even after OC-ed, it's really not that much faster than i7-10700K OC-ed to 5GHz. I agree it's that binning which people are paying, even that is not guaranteed seeing Optimum Tech video.

No doubt about it, best price/perf coupled with B560 motherboard for someone buying a new PC today.
Honestly I don't see it is any faster than the i5-10400F. The review didn't compare with i5-10400 "Max Turbo". I'm guessing very little difference just like the rest of the Rocket Lake CPU.

The more important products is the B560 motherboard which finally allows budget i5 to beat Ryzen 3600 + B450 combo which was out 20 months ago.

Definitely not Max Power otherwise they will mention it and also reflect in the Power Consumption page.
Probably better RAM I'm not sure why the better numbers.

Make sure Windows Power Plan is using Balance, not High Performance. Maybe that will fix the issue?

He did mention idle, and that's not normal for core to load 4.6ghz at idle. I thought low clock/volt on idle is one of the advantage over AMD?

B560 motherboard is really important launch, more so than RKL.

This post has been edited by edmund_yung: Apr 10 2021, 08:14 PM

What I meant is Power Plan in Windows, not BIOS settings.

Are they any Z590 or even B560 ITX boards with smaller heat-sink like on these budget Z590 boards. They aren't overbuilt like on the more expensive Z590 and without active cooling, yet their performs quite okay even with the i7-11900k OC to 4.9

Very nice Intel CPU for the office, no GPU needed. More than enough CPU power for the next decade lol.

wow 16-threads CPU as office PC!

I think it deteriorate faster than other good paste.
I got one dried up like a rock on my CPU and got my Ryzen plugged out from the socket when I try to remove the heatsink.
I heard it performs better below 80c so now I'm only using it on my GPU because it will crashed anyway if hotter than 75C... and the chip can't be detached...