Going above 3200 MT/s is possible, but you eventually end up with diminishing returns, as you trade off system stability and power in favor of minimal performance increases. It’s actually one of the few areas where you can improve performance without necessarily increasing heat output, which is important for us. As the PCIe interconnect linking those core complexes together runs at the same frequency as your memory modules, the higher the frequency you pump through it, the better performance you’ll see. We’ve gone for a 3200 MT/s kit, purely because this is where Ryzen 2nd gen shines the most. But since it’s only going to be used for gaming in a living-room setting, mostly in Steam’s Big Picture mode, the likelihood of you having tons of Chrome tabs and Discord open for that matter is slim. Why just 16GB? If this was a full-time desktop system and we were going to use it for video editing and other memory-hungry tasks, 32GB would’ve made more sense. Their crisp black aluminum heatsinks and ridiculously bright Capellix LEDs add a spritz of pizzazz to your system. And of course you don’t have to deal with that extra PCIe 4.0 chipset fan.Ĭorsair’s Dominator Platinum RGBs are nothing short of stunning, when it comes to both style and performance. However, the Z370 board is old and now out of stock, so that’s another reason to go with AMD here.ĭespite Gigabyte and ASRock launching next-gen X570 ITX motherboards, the X470-I is still one hell of a mobo you get a pretty-awesome audio solution, M.2 RGB heatsink cover, strong memory support (up to 3600 MT/s), four SATA ports (2 easily accessible), a six-phase power design and support for Wireless AC as well. This is all very odd because the Z370 variant of this same board actually has the headers located near the 24-pin ATX power, in fact in a very similar layout to the X470-I gaming we’re using here. Now admittedly as I’m using a PCIe riser cable here, it’s less of an issue, but if you had a graphics card plugged in directly instead, you have to then route the front panel power cable across the back of the graphics card, and it just looks insanely messy, and there’s no easy way of tidying it. That makes it incredibly frustrating to get to for cable management. The problem with that board is the front I/O header location, which is placed just above the PCIe slot, and below the M.2 SSD cover, typically near where the audio passthrough is usually located. However, if I wanted to go with Intel that’d inevitably mean going with the Z390-I Gaming. Now I knew we wanted to go with an Asus mobo for this build, as its ITX boards are some of the best looking and best equipped in this form factor (right now).
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