Recommend me a z490 mobo, and a wifi adaptor.

[mcmada109]

Budget (including currency): $300 Cad

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming

 

Memory express only had $350+ z490 mobos with built in wifi and he recommended buying a cheaper board and buy an wifi/bt adaptor. Need a mobo suggestion and a wifi adaptor to go with it. Also is a wd black sn750 at $180 a good buy?

 

[cm992]

Did you already buy the cpu? Are you trying to build the system asap? If you wait a month and a bit Intel 11th gen processors release in March so you may want one of those on a Z590 board or else when those release there should be some deals on the 10th gen stuff.

 

But if you need it now then it would be nice to know what cpu you have and what the largest mobo size your case supports is, probably ATX.

 

Here is a $230 Z490 board at memory express with wifi5 and bluetooth5 in ATX size link

[mcmada109]

Already have the cpu, I went to memory express and thats the board I wanted but they didn't have it, I will probably order from amazon for the free shipping. Yes atx is what Im looking for. 

[Entropy.]

7 minutes ago, mcmada109 said:

Already have the cpu, I went to memory express and thats the board I wanted but they didn't have it, I will probably order from amazon for the free shipping. Yes atx is what Im looking for. 

The gigabyte aorus elite z490 should work well for you. Other options include the aorus elite gaming x (cheaper, somewhat worse all-round), and the MSI gaming tomahawk z490 (different aesthetic, but slightly worse vrms and not that great thermals, but nothing too bad). On the other hand, I'd actually maybe try to wait for intel to release their 12th gen chips and motherboards, which are supposedly coming this year, which Intel has confirmed should support pcie gen 5 and ddr5 memory.

[-rascal-]

39 minutes ago, mcmada109 said:

Budget (including currency): $300 Cad

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming

 

Memory express only had $350+ z490 mobos with built in wifi and he recommended buying a cheaper board and buy an wifi/bt adaptor. Need a mobo suggestion and a wifi adaptor to go with it. Also is a wd black sn750 at $180 a good buy?

 

 

What CPU are you running?

If you are running like a i9-10900K / i9-10850K / i7-10700K, and/or will be doing CPU overclocking, you'd want a decent motherboard.

Otherwise, the motherboard's VRM could thermal throttle, hence throttle the CPU.

 

An M.2 or PCI-E X1 Wi-Fi adapter an extra $30 at least.

If you can stretch your budget to ~$310, just get a board with built-in Wi-Fi.

 

Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite AC -- $309.99

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00112379

 

One of the best "budget" Z490 boards with good VRM design, and VRM cooling.

The non-AC version of the board is already $279.99 .... but then if you add $30 for an M.2 Wi-Fi adapter, you are back to the ~$310 cost.

 

As for the WD SN750 1TB?

It performs very close to the Samsung 970 EVO (Plus) 1TB; that SSD goes for $270 right now.

So I would say yes, it is worth it.

 

I have a SN750 1TB in my system right now.

 

 

 

[mcmada109]

Gambled a bit and picked a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite AC used one from amazon warehouse deals for $250. 

[mcmada109]

On 1/31/2021 at 1:20 PM, mcmada109 said:

Gambled a bit and picked a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite AC used one from amazon warehouse deals for $250. 

Came DOA, got a swift refund from amazon, Im gonna up my budget to $400 CAD, any new suggestions for primo atx z490 mobo which I can overclock my 10600k to 5ghz?