currently considering this colorful b850i vs asrock b650i too. any notable cons for colorful except more established brand name in mobo if compare with asrock?

Bro, can share brand and model of mobo, ram and heat sink?

if need ram change, they come back to you as system builder.

i cant brain why puak pcmr want this kind of very packed form factor in first place.

ram can download later

For linux, if you are using ubuntu or some other distro, can check and see if zram is enabled. Trades of a little bit of CPU cycles for compressing data in ram.

what cooler is that?

Don't think it will be RAM
1st component to koyak is the round 20cent lithium battery
How the owner going to replace it without removing the heatsink

wat so difficult, already have access to screws to remove.

The real challenge is since its itx the case if restrictive cant get hands in there to easily release the modules.

No one change RAM on monthly or quarterly basis

Why change RAM while u can change the whole PC.....?

the only time RAM ever died on me was 2nd hand DDR3 hyperx after 3 years of use. should have checked the mfg date before discarding it.

dont worry that system will last a long time

This post has been edited by Rusty Nail: Oct 8 2025, 11:27 AM

Change the User

just change lah, since RGB hidden under heatsink anyway

The vrm on top no heatsink. Using the utility software to update driver is useless. Other brands let you update drivers after fist time boot into desktop, this one still need to manually download individual drivers. It's chipset multimedia driver can't be install by using any of the drivers from the webpage. I need to download the apu driver from gigabyte to install it.
Unless you really like the price, for me, I'll just get some other brands.

Cvn b850i gaming frozen v14, neo forza trinity 16gb@6400, Thermalright axp120-x67

Some people live in temporary rented place. Need to move a lot.

Thermalright axp120-x67

Set the bios, never turn off power from wall.

lolwut, mid tower serve that purpose well enough.
high dense doesnt necessary mean it will be much lighter.

Casing is dlh21 vertical tower. Actually very spacious for an itx.