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Just now, ARikozuM said:

Coffee Lake has been on the roadmap for 2017/2018 since 2013/2014... 

And given how soon after Kaby Lake (which would have been a success if AMD didn't actually deliver on most of the Hype) they'd have left it until this time next year, 2017-2018 is still a hell of a loose time for a roadmap, they moved it forward, hopefully it's ready., it seems both companies right now have a few issues as well, from thermals to RAM, I guess this is the cost of rapidly moving technology and competition (I haven't experienced this since like 2011) 

Yours faithfully

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2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

RGB set to pink? Maybe just straight up pink LEDs and pink custom sleeved cables. You also don't want to over do the pink. just have it accent the white. 

exaxtly what i was liking in accenting the white 

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Just now, Nipplemilk909 said:

exaxtly what i was liking in accenting the white 

I'm not sure if there are any white mini ITX boards, MSI have a few black ones with white accents, but the board will be barely visible anyways. Maybe look for said LEDs after all, LEDs are easy to ad and if done just right will make the system pop

Yours faithfully

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14 hours ago, dizmo said:

Funny, on launch there weren't any motherboards that cheap on the B250 chipset. Just took a look, and there still isn't.

The 1050Ti is weak. A lot of games, it'll barely hit 35 fps at 1080p. Granted, we don't know what she plays, but you even didn't ask. I can find a 1060 easily. I'm sure the OP can as well.

Funny, last time I checked B250 chipset and H110 weren't comparable. Same way B250 and H310 aren't comparable. Or, like how Z270 and A320 aren't comparable. H110 chipset motherboards launched right around $50, and I guarantee you'll be able to get an H310 chipset board for right around $50.

14 hours ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Brand new boards aren't usually that cheap, and don't usually launch that fast either. 

Yes, they are usually that "cheap" for entry level motherboards. How fast? I never said how fast motherboards launched? However, yes, H110 chipset motherboards were available either on launch, or immediately after with Skylake.

14 hours ago, Lord Nicoll said:

And given how soon after Kaby Lake (which would have been a success if AMD didn't actually deliver on most of the Hype) they'd have left it until this time next year, 2017-2018 is still a hell of a loose time for a roadmap, they moved it forward, hopefully it's ready., it seems both companies right now have a few issues as well, from thermals to RAM, I guess this is the cost of rapidly moving technology and competition (I haven't experienced this since like 2011) 

Kaby Lake wouldn't have been any better if Ryzen didn't exist. Kaby Lake is, and would have still been a hot version of Skylake with slightly better clock speeds. The only good thing from Kaby Lake is 4c Pentium's. Ryzen done nothing to shake up Intel, Coffee Lake was ALWAYS planned for 2017. In fact, it's a little late if you look at old roadmaps, because if you recall correctly, Kaby Lake was a little late. Also, look at old roadmaps and what not, Coffee Lake was ALWAYS going to have 6 core parts. I imagine if Ryzen didn't launch, Intel would have(and could have) held back on Coffee Lake, just like NVidia are doing with Volta though.

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1 minute ago, Sanctorum said:

 

Yes, they are usually that "cheap" for entry level motherboards. How fast? I never said how fast motherboards launched? However, yes, H110 chipset motherboards were available either on launch, or immediately after with Skylake.

Kaby Lake wouldn't have been any better if Ryzen didn't exist. Kaby Lake is, and would have still been a hot version of Skylake with slightly better clock speeds. The only good thing from Kaby Lake is 4c Pentium's. Ryzen done nothing to shake up Intel, Coffee Lake was ALWAYS planned for 2017. In fact, it's a little late if you look at old roadmaps, because if you recall correctly, Kaby Lake was a little late. Also, look at old roadmaps and what not, Coffee Lake was ALWAYS going to have 6 core parts. I imagine if Ryzen didn't launch, Intel would have(and could have) held back on Coffee Lake, just like NVidia are doing with Volta though.

Kaby Lake would have looked better, you missed my point. Honestly I don't notice the temperature, I delid everything, even soldered CPUs, because extreme overclocking, and bare die, sadly Kaby Lake is a pain to cool with a bare die, but something like Ryzen, if I had of bought it instead I'd just run that bare die, the nice things about PGA, it's easier. If Ryzen wasn't around Kaby Lake would still be the same thing; A faster and sure slightly hotter, Skylake, but 200Mhz is a nice bump, that's noticeable, almost 80 points or so on Cinebench. Mine does 5.2GHz, that's 500MHz over what most Skylake chips do, that isn't nothing. 

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6 hours ago, Sanctorum said:

Funny, last time I checked B250 chipset and H110 weren't comparable. Same way B250 and H310 aren't comparable. Or, like how Z270 and A320 aren't comparable. H110 chipset motherboards launched right around $50, and I guarantee you'll be able to get an H310 chipset board for right around $50.

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They didn't release a low end H series chipset with the last series. That's why H110 was so cheap; it was much older.

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6 hours ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Kaby Lake would have looked better, you missed my point. 

No, I didn't miss your point. It wouldn't have looked any better, regardless of Ryzen. Hence why when Kaby Lake launched, BEFORE Ryzen, no one really cared about it. It's a slight clock speed bump with much worse thermals.

30 minutes ago, dizmo said:

They didn't release a low end H series chipset with the last series. That's why H110 was so cheap; it was much older.

What are you talking about? What the fuck does it matter when H110 chipsets boards launched? They were still around $50 at launch, WITH SKYLAKE, the CPUs they were intended for initially. Kaby Lake didn't get H210 because it was a shitty refresh. Same way Haswell Refresh didn't get H91 chipset motherboards. You don't then compare B250 to H110, that's stupid and makes no sense. Like I said, it'd be like trying to compare A320 to Z370. Coffee Lake REQUIRES a 300 series chipset motherboard. We already know we're getting Z370, H370, B360, and H310 chipset motherboards with Coffee Lake.

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Why go brand new, I build my GF a ITX system in the corsair 250D with a i5-4460 and Gigabyte Phoenix MB, 8Gb ram, GTX960 and 240SSD+1TB 

 

she played on it and really enjoyed it, had no care for FPS or things like that, (This was a year and a half ago) and cost me nothing. 

 

Now she's gaming and streaming as well so I got her a brand new rig, but if she didn't like it i'd only be slightly out of pocket.

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MSI GE60 2PE i7-4700HQ / 860M / 12GB / WE 1TB / m.Sata 256gb/Elagto USB HD Capture Card

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