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Cake day: October 25th, 2023
  • Dadchilies@alien.topBtoIntel•Question z790 or z690 iam getting the 14900kEnglish
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    10 months ago

    so, here is my 2 cents… I just built 2 pc’s one 14900k on z690 and another 12700kf on z790(max). what I’ve noticed, the Z790(max) boards all split their PCIE5.0x16 to x8 if you use the CPU attached SSD even with a pcie3.0 SSD this is a major problem unless you are using a x8 graphics card with pcie5.0 SSD. the Z790 standard boards have pcie4.0 SSD to CPU and pcie5.0x16 graphics does not get cut in half but they are expensive. You can get a MSI Z690 ACE for $249! pair that with a 14900k like I did and you have the best system you can get today (even better than a Z790(max) board. and memory OC’s to 6000Mhz no problem.

  • Dadchilies@alien.topBtoIntel•DDR4 vs DDR5 for intel 13th gen?English
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    11 months ago

    Me and my friend just built identical systems his white mine black. My new system is with I9-14900k($599), MSI Z790 tomahawk ddr4($200), 32GB ddr4 3600 cl14 old used memory from old system($73), Samsung 990 pro 4tb, RTX 2080 Super from old system($500), HX1500i power supply I got on sale for ($99), Win10, and my new Lian li PC-011 EVO XL Black. His system is I9-14900k($599), MSI Z790 Edge TI max($349), 32GB ddr5 5200 cl32 ($308), Samsung 990 pro 4tb, RTX 3060ti from old system($420), EVGA 750W power supply ($129), Win11, Lian li PC-011 EVO XL SNOW white. I am very happy with my upgrade!! and I saved over $383 staying on ddr4 with more performance than his system. my latency is substantially better my PC feels snappier and we both agree. playing the same games I get a few more fps which is obvious since graphics cards are not the same but, what I notice the most is programs launch way faster, loading screens are way quicker, everything seems way better on my system by a long shot. Something I noticed about my PC I don’t have support for 4 slots of the ddr4 I bought and ended up only using 2. In his PC he’s using 4x16gb ddr5 with no issues.