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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't get why people who aren't already running Ryzen 9s, i9s or 4090s are buying anything besides the cheapest option. On my last 3 builds I always sorted by price and picket the cheapest option for the CPU Socket, payed at most 70$ and never had any issues. If you need to get the last 5% of performance by overclocking I get it, but for anyone else this is a giant waste of money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Motherboards are all about I/O and connectivity.

Personally, I do the exact same thing (I'm still Running an MSI B350M with a 5900X) but I can understand people that pay a couple hundred bucks to have extra ports / slots or built in wifi or whatever ....

$1000 for a motherboard tho ... that's ridiculous. What could possibly be worth 1000$?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Depends on what kind of games you play. Economic strategy games (tycoons, city-builders, large scale simulation games) can easily bring even a modern CPU to it's knees.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah but a expensive mainboard does next to nothing to improve the performance. If you already got the best SKU on offer and want to overclock then yes but otherwise its nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The motherboard doesn't matter AMD's 3D cache CPUs, which are king for these kinds of games. From what I've seen, you'd be crazy not to get either a 5700X3D or a 7800X3D with a cheap mobo.