New Build (based on Puget 4K)

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September 15, 2020
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Intel Core i9-10850K 3.6 GHz 10-Core Processor
Gigabyte Z490 UD ATX LGA1200 Motherboard

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB Video Card

Noctua NH-U12S 55 CFM CPU Cooler
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 CL16 Memory
Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (Windows & Apps)
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (Project Folders)
Western Digital Black 6 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Optional Storage)
Super Flower Leadex III Gold 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Fractal Design Define R6 USB-C Blackout ATX Mid Tower Case

Total cost: $2200

Tho only substantial change I have made from the Puget specs is the MOBO. Puget recommends the Gigabyte Z490 Vision D ($300). I don't need or want wifi. The Gigabyte tech recommended GIGABYTE Z490 UD ($150). This board has just two M.2 ports as opposed to 3 on the Version D board. Puget also recommends the 2070 GPU. I have learned that the 2060 is very close in Pr performance.

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RjL190365

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One more strike against your motherboard choice:

With the VRM quality as lousy as they are on that board, your i9-10850K may very well throttle down its clock speed heavily in the middle of a video rendering job because the VRMs can't handle all that much heat (the CPU clock speed will throttle back all the way down to its base 3.6 GHz clock speed and stay there for the remainder of the render). The VRMs on the better boards won't get anywhere near that hot, so the CPU's clock speed won't throttle down for any reason outside of the set power limits during rendering (which means that the sustainable clock speed on all cores with the better Z490 motherboards will average around 4.3 to 4.4 GHz during the render job).

flbreen9380904Author

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Thanks for the info. I am trying to avoid paying for wifi that I do not need so I was originally going for the $200 AORUS ELITE. That board has the same Direct 12 Phases feature as the Version D but it does not have the Thunderbolt feature. All I need to do it plug in my USB 3.0 card reader. Am I all set with the Elite board? Could you recommend another board that has or has not wifi?

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RjL190365

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A little better. You see, these days there are very few good motherboards that do not have onboard WiFi any more. And the onboard WiFi adds just $20 to the price of a decent motherboard due to the advent of the m.2 NGFF form factor for such cards. And if the onboard WiFi fails, you can just order and pop in a replacement for $20-ish. Without onboard WiFi, adding a PCI-e x1 card will typically cost you more than that if you need it later on.

When I got my Asus ROG Strix X570-F motherboard a couple of months ago, I thought I could get away without onboard WiFi (as I already have a PCI-e WiFi card). But now I wish I would have spent the additional $20 for the X570-E instead of the -F because in addition to the onboard Wi-Fi, I would have also gotten a second Ethernet port (a 2.5 Gbps Realtek-controlled Ethernet port in addition to the 1 Gbps Intel-controlled Ethernet port, whereas the X570-F has only the 1 Gbps Intel LAN).

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RjL190365

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With that cheap Gigabyte motherboard you're also cheaping out on the VRM quality. That motherboard has lousy VRMs that can barely handle even a stock i7-10700 without reaching temperatures that are too hot for comfort (reaching more than 100C at even stock speed with a 10850K). In addition, it has absolutely no USB-C ports at all whatsoever (the USB-C connector is required for Thunderbolt 3) although it has a lot of USB-A ports. In other words, it just costs too much money for what is essentially an H410-quality motherboard. (Gigabyte is not the very worst of the cheapos; ASRock is even worse.) Furthermore, both ASUS and MSI offer better quality Z490 motherboards for around the same price point as that Gigabyte motherboard that will not come close to overheating with even a slightly overclocked i9-10900K.

In other words, Gigabyte motherboards with the Z490 chipset are worthwhile only at the $200-and-above price point. The Vision D that Puget recommends costs around $300.