Please check over my upgrade :)

ANDARIAL

ANDARIAL

ANDARIAL

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £708.46 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Maybe this board instead
X470 Aorus Gaming 5 Wifi AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
better vrm cooling?



Planning on upgrading from a 4790K @4.7 G
Zotac 1070 spectra extreme
Corsair 850 watt psu
HAF 934 x case
Hazro 2560x1600 monitor
Rift VR headset
bequiet darkrock 2 with AMD 4 brkts(got these a while back in preparation for upgrade)

are the bits i am reusing
Anything obviously wrong?
Looking to order today/tomorrow:)
 
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ANDARIAL said:
IGNORE ram price has gone up :(
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Go with some cheaper Ram instead ?

Probably not much between the Asus and Gigabyte although I am no expert on VRM's. You do get better warranty support though with Gigabyte and also a Forum rep (GIGA Man).

The non 'X' cpu saves you £30. Just overclock it.

The Team Group 3000MHz ram for £99.99 is a pretty good buy. Obviously not Samsung B die like the 8Pack stuff. Should still run fine though.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £378.64 (includes shipping: £8.70)​
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Thanks for the suggestion.Will take another look ,hopefully no more price increases while I do:(
Was too slow in deciding I reckon
 
ANDARIAL said:
Maybe this board instead
X470 Aorus Gaming 5 Wifi AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
better vrm cooling?
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Separate high and low side FETs tend to have higher power losses/lower efficiency than more modern powerstage FETs.
So it'll likely need some amount more cooling.


subroutine said:
I found this a useful guide when considering VRMs -

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-ZwVuH_tinzgpsOdfMvYeCLI5ZbIpnq5fyiWD4NCkkU/edit#gid=0
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Lots of complete excrement VRMs in those "lower end" ones.
Asus Strix B450-F had its VRM overheat in 12 minutes with stock 2700X doing X264 encoding!
And Gigabyte Aorus B450 Pro's VRM reached 101C in 20 minutes.
By The Stilt's words:
"There's not much to say about both Asus and Gigabyte motherboards. Actions of both makers are completely substandard. In vehicle inspection terms both are fails for not being able to reliably work with all advertised CPUs."​

Asrock B450M Pro actually has stronger VRM than those motherboards.
While having its heatsink open to airflow instead of being sabotaged by marketing BS covers.
https://www.io-tech.fi/artikkelit/testissa-amd-b450-emolevyt-asrock-asus-gigabyte-msi/
(Google Translate would do mostly understandable job)
 
I actually went for the gigabyte x470 aorus gaming 7 but that was double the price I intended to spend on a MB. That was because of the lack of choice in what I could find to be a fairly good all round board to support a 2700x. As for covering the VRM heatsink with flashy plastic covers, that makes no sense to me. I wish they would up the quality of the components/cooling and cut out the bling/RBG. I don't spend my money or time to look at my pc case and it components, I look at the monitor or soon the oculus.
 
Thanks for all the advice guys
Kinda lost the interest in upgrading atm now:p
My fault ` if you snooze ,you lose`:o
 
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