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B450 -F Gaming. To buy, or not to buy

DVA
By DVA
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Welp I have an opportunity to purchase an ASUS ROG Strix B450 board for $80 USD NEW. It's coming from a guy that was recently given a x470 board as a gift and he never got to use the B450. It's in all original packaging, completely sealed. He just wants to dump it because he has a build he is doing and wants the money for it. 

 

Now my question is, despite the cooling capability it has for OC'ing, is it fine other than that? I will likely be purchasing a 2600 for it and doing a moderate OC. The case will have good air flow and if need be than I'll probably purchase a D15 to keep things cool. 

 

$80 for it seems like a good deal to me, thoughts everyone?

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13 minutes ago, DVA said:

Welp I have an opportunity to purchase an ASUS ROG Strix B450 board for $80 USD NEW. It's coming from a guy that was recently given a x470 board as a gift and he never got to use the B450. It's in all original packaging, completely sealed. He just wants to dump it because he has a build he is doing and wants the money for it. 

 

Now my question is, despite the cooling capability it has for OC'ing, is it fine other than that? I will likely be purchasing a 2600 for it and doing a moderate OC. The case will have good air flow and if need be than I'll probably purchase a D15 to keep things cool. 

 

$80 for it seems like a good deal to me, thoughts everyone?

Amazing deal, any b450 you can find under $100 is great, plus that great IO and sexy rgb.

 

I have this board in an older rig with an 2400g. Given you have the case and a good aio, this board is great for overclocking.

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Good deal for the price. Not putting Ryzen 7 in that, but Ryzen 5 should be fine

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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