z690 is a joke

[marcuzx]

I was going to do a 12900k build but after seeing those horrible boards I’m not building anything. Rofl 3 pcie slots for 400$? like are you kidding me? 

 

There’s only one decent board and that’s the ddr4 white strix and it’s only 3 pcie slots therefore i’m not getting it cuz it needs 5.

 

can’t believe what they’re selling to the customers. none of these junk boards deserve to be more than 100$, such a huge disappointment.

 

 

[Chris Pratt]

New socket, new chipset, PCIe 5.0: all adds cost. This was also totally expected and fairly normal. You're paying the early adopter tax.

[marcuzx]

6 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

New socket, new chipset, PCIe 5.0: all adds cost. This was also totally expected and fairly normal. You're paying the early adopter tax.

yup, skipping this gen rofl. was so excited for 12900k but not going to get it now. if 5950x hits like 500$ i’ll get that and dump it on a b550 board and call it a day. i’ll upgrade probably next year or year after that 

[Jurrunio]

So if I can buy a people's carrier with 8 seats for $60k, none of the prices on Ferraris make sense because they at most have 4 seats...

[Freakwise]

18 minutes ago, marcuzx said:

Rofl 3 pcie slots for 400$? like are you kidding me? 

so does every other consumer chipset, z690 is consumer chipset, want more? go with hedt chipset or server stuff

 

 

[Lightwreather]

22 minutes ago, marcuzx said:

There’s only one decent board and that’s the ddr4 white strix and it’s only 3 pcie slots therefore i’m not getting it cuz it needs 5.

So far, I haven't seen a single consumer chipset or motherboard that has 5 PCIe slots. Neither AMD not Intel has had one like that in recent memory

[Tan3l6]

Edited: not M.2 but PCIe slots?

Why?

[Chris Pratt]

7 minutes ago, marcuzx said:

yup, skipping this gen rofl. was so excited for 12900k but not going to get it now. if 5950x hits like 500$ i’ll get that and dump it on a b550 board and call it a day. i’ll upgrade probably next year or year after that 

5900X generally performs better core for core than the 5950X and is already $550 full retail. You're basically just paying $200 for the 8 additional threads on the 5950X. There's some professional workloads where that actually matters, but in the majority of scenarios the 5900X is the way to go both for performance and value.

 

As for the 12900K, you'd actually only have the same thread count as the 5900X, anyways, and not all of them on performance cores. In short, unless you need PCIe 5.0 (you don't) or DDR5 (you don't), then the 5900X is still going to be competitive.

[Blue4130]

16 minutes ago, marcuzx said:

yup, skipping this gen rofl. was so excited for 12900k but not going to get it now. if 5950x hits like 500$ i’ll get that and dump it on a b550 board and call it a day. i’ll upgrade probably next year or year after that 

I thought you said you needed 5 pcie slots? You are not getting that on B550. 

[marcuzx]

like pcie as in you know it has 3 slots for gpu and then 2 slots for riser. so that means i turn the 1 into 4 which means I run 10+ cards on a single cpu. 

 

you know? i guess they’re not called pcie slots? but i call them pcie slots. whatever it’s pcie anyways 

 

so for ddr4 the white strix has 3 slots, 2 which are for gpu and 1 which is for riser and sadly only 1 is usable for the gpu since psu will block other which means you can only run 5 gpus

 

 now we have asrock b550 razer edition which has 3 gpu slots and 2 for risers and b550 strix has 3 fir risers and 2 for gpus

 

I currently mine on 8 cards using my 3700x easy and can mine on 15 if i choose to

 

so basically since i’m giving away my 3700x i’m just going to get another one rofl, not even kidding. not even going to bother with 12th gen 

 

I wanted a wow upgrade and 5900x isn’t that, it’s very similar to 3700x. i mean i play on 1080p anyways.

 

so i’ll be getting another 3700x until i finally decide to upgrade to something that will give me a wow experience or if I find a 5950x for 400 i might get it or a 12900k for 450 but until then it’ll be a waste 

 

65tdp running stock cooler, running 8 gpus, simply amazing. 12th gen motherboards are a huge disappointment

 

 

[ADarkBard]

On 10/28/2021 at 6:41 AM, marcuzx said:

I was going to do a 12900k build but after seeing those horrible boards I’m not building anything. Rofl 3 pcie slots for 400$? like are you kidding me? 

 

There’s only one decent board and that’s the ddr4 white strix and it’s only 3 pcie slots therefore i’m not getting it cuz it needs 5.

 

can’t believe what they’re selling to the customers. none of these junk boards deserve to be more than 100$, such a huge disappointment.

 

 

I admit I was excited to see the early prices of the 12th gen CPUs but those motherboard prices are crazy. Plus I prefer something with a few miles under it.

[Blue4130]

6 hours ago, marcuzx said:

like pcie as in you know it has 3 slots for gpu and then 2 slots for riser. so that means i turn the 1 into 4 which means I run 10+ cards on a single cpu. 

 

you know? i guess they’re not called pcie slots? but i call them pcie slots. whatever it’s pcie anyways 

 

so for ddr4 the white strix has 3 slots, 2 which are for gpu and 1 which is for riser and sadly only 1 is usable for the gpu since psu will block other which means you can only run 5 gpus

 

 now we have asrock b550 razer edition which has 3 gpu slots and 2 for risers and b550 strix has 3 fir risers and 2 for gpus

 

I currently mine on 8 cards using my 3700x easy and can mine on 15 if i choose to

 

so basically since i’m giving away my 3700x i’m just going to get another one rofl, not even kidding. not even going to bother with 12th gen 

 

I wanted a wow upgrade and 5900x isn’t that, it’s very similar to 3700x. i mean i play on 1080p anyways.

 

so i’ll be getting another 3700x until i finally decide to upgrade to something that will give me a wow experience or if I find a 5950x for 400 i might get it or a 12900k for 450 but until then it’ll be a waste 

 

65tdp running stock cooler, running 8 gpus, simply amazing. 12th gen motherboards are a huge disappointment

 

 

How can you run 15 cards? Surely you will run out of pcie lanes, no? 

[marcuzx]

9 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

How can you run 15 cards? Surely you will run out of pcie lanes, no? 

1 to 4 pcie riser 

[marcuzx]

14 hours ago, ADarkBard said:

I admit I was excited to see the early prices of the 12th gen CPUs but those motherboard prices are crazy. Plus I prefer something with a few miles under it.

yea good prices for cpus but horrible mobos

[Blue4130]

30 minutes ago, marcuzx said:

1 to 4 pcie riser 

That doesn't explain how you get around the lane allocation. To my knowledge, no motherboard supports bifurcation from x16 to x1. So if you use your 1 to 4, that sucks up 16 lanes *if* you are able to split down to x4 on each slot. That leaves you with not much left over. Definitely not enough for 11 more gpu's. 

 

Please go into detail. I am honestly curious to know if you have actually done this and had it working or if this is a thought experiment on your part.