Going back to Intel!!! Motherboard Choices

[red_sky]

Allright then. After working on ideals for a new system, I was going to upgrade my Ryzen 1300x. With all the confusing information, at least I consider it confusing, I'm going back to Intel. I understand Intel's generations designation. AMD's not so much. I have decided on the i5-10660k. I like the mATX boards, however I can go to a full ATX board and case. As for mobo, brand does not matter, don't know what to expect from a wi-fi model, but I would like to see headers for USB A/C for the case. I work from the front of my computer, not struggling to get at the back of it.

Would like to hear suggestions for mobo to fit the CPU I have chosen.

 

Thanks in advance!

[SupaKomputa]

Depending on your motherboard, you can just easily upgrade it to Ryzen 2600 or 3600.

[Alan G]

For ATX motherboards, I have been using ASUS TUF Gaming boards.  They perform very well and I have not had a single issue.  I don't game, but do a lot of Office work and photography.  I think you can get them with or without WiFi.  I don't need WiFi as I am hooked up directly to the router with an Ethernet cable.  I think the TUF line of boards are cheaper than the ROG line by ASUS.  My current workstation is a Z390 board.  I don't have a Type C front panel connector but I don't really need one.  The new line of boards do include this which is what you are looking for.

[xg32]

with current prices i suggest the z590 tomahawk

 

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813144389

 

intel has good ram and ring oc to make up a bit of the diff between 10th gen and zen 3 and msi boards for this gen are great at that.

 

in general just avoid the lower end asrock boards for z590

[Jeppes]

At least wait for the new competitive intel cpu:s.

[Mister Woof]

https://wccftech.com/intel-officially-launches-12th-gen-alder-lake-unlocked-cpus-z690-platform-on-4th-november-unveiling-next-week/

[SupaKomputa]

54 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

https://wccftech.com/intel-officially-launches-12th-gen-alder-lake-unlocked-cpus-z690-platform-on-4th-november-unveiling-next-week/

200w for i5, yikes.

[freeagent]

200w+ has been the norm for awhile with Intel has it not? There is a good chance I am out of touch with what’s what..

[Mister Woof]

11 minutes ago, freeagent said:

200w+ has been the norm for awhile with Intel has it not? There is a good chance I am out of touch with what’s what..

Well, at a decent OC (5.1ghz all-core at around 1.28 load voltage) my 10-core peaks at around 220w in cbr23

[SupaKomputa]

14 minutes ago, freeagent said:

200w+ has been the norm for awhile with Intel has it not? There is a good chance I am out of touch with what’s what..

I'm expecting it to be lower as they use a smaller node (finally). A mid end chip should not tops 150w.

There's a leaked benchmark:

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-12900k-es-benchmarks-leaked-st-score-25-higher-than-5950x-overall-mt-score-11-lower/

[Gohardgrandpa]

24 minutes ago, freeagent said:

200w+ has been the norm for awhile with Intel has it not? There is a good chance I am out of touch with what’s what..

My i7 11700f with no power limits in bios pulls 198 watts in cinebench. 

[Mister Woof]

7 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

I'm expecting it to be lower as they use a smaller node (finally). A mid end chip should not tops 150w.

There's a leaked benchmark:

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-12900k-es-benchmarks-leaked-st-score-25-higher-than-5950x-overall-mt-score-11-lower/

If you look at the stack, they have 228w PL2 on the entire stack from i5(k) to i9(k). I think it's still too early to tell from the leaks alone.

[Gohardgrandpa]

Who are we trying to fool here. It's Intel, shits gonna be power hungry. 

[Mister Woof]

2 minutes ago, Gohardgrandpa said:

Who are we trying to fool here. It's Intel, shits gonna be power hungry. 

No doubt, but there's def. going to be a range. I don't think that 228w PL2 is going to be reasonable for the entire stack. Likely a placeholder

[Gohardgrandpa]

39 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

No doubt, but there's def. going to be a range. I don't think that 228w PL2 is going to be reasonable for the entire stack. Likely a placeholder

We'll see what happens. My i7 is listed as a 65 watt part. I totally get it I'm not playing by the rules removing the power limits but over clocking a K sku has always been power hungry

[freeagent]

Ehh.. that’s like my 105w 5900X spitting out over 200w, or my 65w 5600X spitting out 144w..

 

They are all full of shit

[Mister Woof]

51 minutes ago, freeagent said:

Ehh.. that’s like my 105w 5900X spitting out over 200w, or my 65w 5600X spitting out 144w..

 

They are all full of shit

kind of funny, splitting hairs over 150w vs 250w

 

meanwhile GPUs have 460w BIOSes

[xg32]

3 hours ago, freeagent said:

Ehh.. that’s like my 105w 5900X spitting out over 200w, or my 65w 5600X spitting out 144w..

 

They are all full of shit

i'm out of date on this too, but afaik the 8600k stock was 95w (wow) ~, 9900k is about 140w, woof would know about 10900k better than i do, and 11900k was 300w+ in some apps

 

i think some of the 12th gen leaks had a pcore boost at 300w+ (thats intel admitting 320w LOL)

 

gpus are gonna be 450w, calling it

 

2 hours ago, Mister Woof said:

kind of funny, splitting hairs over 150w vs 250w

 

meanwhile GPUs have 460w BIOSes

wait wtf 5600x is 144w? TIL, 5950x is only 180w for me til i started upping it

[freeagent]

1 minute ago, xg32 said:

i'm out of date on this too, but afaik the 8600k stock was 95w (wow) ~, 9900k is about 140w, woof would know about 10900k better than i do, and 11900k was 300w+ in some apps

 

i think some of the 12th gen leaks had a pcore boost at 300w+ (thats intel admitting 320w LOL)

 

gpus are gonna be 450w, calling it

 

wait wtf 5600x is 144w? TIL, 5950x is only 180w for me til i started upping it

Nah.. that was an all core clock at 4700 running Linpack Xtreme

 

I have seen 240w from my 5900X, normally the wattage isn't a problem, but 7nm is

[Mister Woof]

2 hours ago, xg32 said:

i'm out of date on this too, but afaik the 8600k stock was 95w (wow) ~, 9900k is about 140w, woof would know about 10900k better than i do, and 11900k was 300w+ in some apps

 

i think some of the 12th gen leaks had a pcore boost at 300w+ (thats intel admitting 320w LOL)

 

gpus are gonna be 450w, calling it

 

wait wtf 5600x is 144w? TIL, 5950x is only 180w for me til i started upping it

no, that was just a spitballed number. just sayin, CPU wattage under 300 is kinda eh nowadays given gpus are so power hungry

[freeagent]

I have seen my system draw 65w at the wall doing nothing, but usually around 80 just clicking around with edge. I have seen the system pull 300w at the wall running just world community grid on my cpu alone. I have seen the system pull 630w from the wall running f@h on both the cpu and gpu. To be fair I pretty much only run with pbo enabled and tuned with CO.

[Mister Woof]

On 10/19/2021 at 4:36 PM, xg32 said:

i'm out of date on this too, but afaik the 8600k stock was 95w (wow) ~, 9900k is about 140w, woof would know about 10900k better than i do, and 11900k was 300w+ in some apps

 

i think some of the 12th gen leaks had a pcore boost at 300w+ (thats intel admitting 320w LOL)

 

gpus are gonna be 450w, calling it

 

wait wtf 5600x is 144w? TIL, 5950x is only 180w for me til i started upping it

Lol

 

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-i9-12900k-overclocked-to-5-2-ghz-on-all-performance-cores-reportedly-consumes-330w-of-power