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How to best move to a smaller Setup

So here's the deal. I'm moving off to college and my room will be quite cramped, especially the desk, so I would like to move my build from the Atx Corsair Carbide spec Omega to a masterbox q300l micro atx Case. In my current build I have an atx mobo MSI Z370 GAMING M5. In that I have an I3 8350k and a 1070 ti on a 1440p monitor. In my closet form another build I have a ryzen 2200g(which I would want to replace) on a $60 gigabyte micro atx board. I see a ryzen 2600 on craigslist in y area for $100. I am just wondering what everyone thinks? Should I buy the 2600 and go the ryzen 2600 route with similar performance, or buy a micro atx intel mobo?

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Sell the Z370 board, the 2200g, and cheapo AM4 board then buy a Micro ATX Z390 board(depending on how much you get you might be able to sell the 8350k as well and get like a 9600k or an 8700k if you wanted plus the new board). Only do the 2600 if you plan on doing a lot of rendering and workstation type stuff while in college otherwise the 8350K is better for gaming.

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3 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Sell the Z370 board, the 2200g, and cheapo AM4 board then buy a Micro ATX Z390 board(depending on how much you get you might be able to sell the 8350k as well and get like a 9600k or an 8700k if you wanted plus the new board). Only do the 2600 if you plan on doing a lot of rendering and workstation type stuff while in college otherwise the 8350K is better for gaming.

Ryzen 3000 is also an option but they don't have a lot of micro X570 boards out and I personally wouldn't do Ryzen 3000 without an X570 board because of the benefits they have over X470 unless on a major budget.

Main Desktop: CPU - i9-14900k | Mobo - Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite AX DDR4 | GPU - ASUS TUF Gaming OC RTX 4090 RAM - Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB 64GB 3600mhz | AIO - H150i Pro XT | PSU - Corsair RM1000X | Case - Phanteks P500A Digital - White | Storage - Samsung 970 Pro M.2 NVME SSD 512GB / Sabrent Rocket 1TB Nvme / Samsung 860 Evo Pro 500GB / Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2tb Nvme / Samsung 870 QVO 4TB  |

 

TV Streaming PC: Intel Nuc CPU - i7 8th Gen | RAM - 16GB DDR4 2666mhz | Storage - 256GB WD Black M.2 NVME SSD |

 

Phone: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 - Phantom Black 512GB |

 

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