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I'm looking at upgrading from a 4690K to a 10600K within the next couple months so it's been a while since I kept up with anything motherboard related. I've done a bit of looking around but at this stage Z490 reviews seem to be scarce, so far I think that the STRIX Z490-E / AORUS Ultra / MPG Gaming Carbon could be good choices.

 

I'm looking around the £300 mark for boards with wifi (and preferably bluetooth) but have no idea what different manufacturer's BIOS' are like or what factors I may have missed or not considered well enough so thought I'd come here for some advice on what would be some good choices with pros / cons.

 

Thanks in advance.

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none. a 10600k is a bad buy and spending more on board than a CPU is a bad buy too.

wait till the fall you get new ryzen launches get a 4700X( or whatever the r7 chip is with good value) and a midgrange x570 or high end b550 board

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1 hour ago, GDRRiley said:

none. a 10600k is a bad buy and spending more on board than a CPU is a bad buy too.

wait till the fall you get new ryzen launches get a 4700X( or whatever the r7 chip is with good value) and a midgrange x570 or high end b550 board

Why exactly is the 10600K a bad buy? Looks to be a good value performer for gaming doing better than the 3700X at the same price. I understand what you’re saying about spending more on a board than a cpu but for aesthetics and WiFi/BT I’m not too phased by it, even if somewhat unnecessary.

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9 minutes ago, Kharvi said:

Why exactly is the 10600K a bad buy? Looks to be a good value performer for gaming doing better than the 3700X at the same price. I understand what you’re saying about spending more on a board than a cpu but for aesthetics and WiFi/BT I’m not too phased by it, even if somewhat unnecessary.

well the 3700x is an outgoing part. in a few weeks it will get a clockspeed boost from the factory and then a few months after that likely end of Q3 it will be replaced by 4000 desktop chips which are looking to be 10-20% faster

WiFI+BT are often a 20$ add on not 100$

 

prices on boards will change but right now for AMD 3xx0 and later for 4xxx parts this is a pretty good buy for a board with wifi. for your same 600$ budget with board+CPU right now could get you this

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $416.57 @ Amazon
Motherboard Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard $189.99 @ Best Buy
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $606.56
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-15 21:52 EDT-0400  

 

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

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6 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

well the 3700x is an outgoing part. in a few weeks it will get a clockspeed boost from the factory and then a few months after that likely end of Q3 it will be replaced by 4000 desktop chips which are looking to be 10-20% faster

WiFI+BT are often a 20$ add on not 100$

 

prices on boards will change but right now for AMD 3xx0 and later for 4xxx parts this is a pretty good buy for a board with wifi. for your same 600$ budget with board+CPU right now could get you this

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $416.57 @ Amazon
Motherboard Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard $189.99 @ Best Buy
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $606.56
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-15 21:52 EDT-0400  

 

I definitely haven’t given AMD enough consideration then from what you’re saying, old bias from years ago I guess.

Thanks for the help I’ll look into the AMD side much more.

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