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I'm building a new rig and was wondering what the new hotness for motherboards is. It's been a while so I'm out of the loop on the goings-on in the market as of late.

I'm building a new rig and was wondering what the new hotness for motherboards is. It's been a while so I'm out of the loop on the goings-on in the market as of late.

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Gigabyte Auros series.

Swapped to Gigabyte a few years ago as Asus decided to become shit.

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Second Gigabyte. Would throw AsRock in there too, but I know others have had mixed results with them. I have not.

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The ASRock stuff tends to be ok, if you stick to the bottom end boards, the top end boards are where i see them failing. Maybe my perception is off on this though, as I have only ever had 1.

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Atx or micro ATX? I can show the mobo I've used for 3 AM4 builds within the last 2 years.

Avoid MSI like a fucking nigger. I cannot understand the hype but every single MSI board I've used over the span of 20 years I've been forced to return for something else.

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I haven't even made that decision yet. I'm still in the very early stages of this. I'm upgrading from the equivalent of a 2009 Honda Accord, so anything is pretty much better than what I have now.

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Ok, I'll give a few ideas. AM4 is gonna be a cheaper build on numerous fronts. Board and memory for sure. If you can catch one on sale, a 5700x3d or 5800x3d are beasts. If your gonna go AM5, expect large markups on basically every piece. The long term upgradability will be better with AM5, so not sure how important that is for you.

ATX tends to be a lot more feature rich in terms of onboard stuff. But microATX for some folks can be PLENTY. The gigabyte I'm using has 4 memory channels, 2 PCIe, m.2, all the good shit and onboard wifi Bluetooth. And it's all crammed into a micro ATX form factor. So just shop around for what you think you need or may want I'm the future.

As far as video cards....MSRP is fucked. Newegg has a used market to save some sheckles. In terms of maker...unless your on Linux it doesn't matter much anymore unless you want ray tracing. I am far more partial to AMD GPU for bang for buck. Yet I'm using a 2070 super cause I got it cheap.

Beyond that, the only other thing I can recommend is get a larger PSU than you might think you need. GPU requirements are getting insane. 750w is about the MINIMUM you'd want nowadays. If you can afford it, I'd closer to 850 for long term use ability

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Thank you very much. I'll keep these points in mind.

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When I got home, I priced processors. AM4 is BY FAR the cheaper option. AM5 will offer long term upgradability, but if budget is a concern, you can build an AM4 rig for about half the price. the 3D options (5700X3D and 5800X3D) are VERY spendy, but if you wait for holidays (4th is coming up), you should be able to score a 5600X for under 100. I got 3 5800X processors for under 100 last year. I will warn this about the processors. Whatever processor you buy, look at the TDP of the processor to assess what your cooling needs will be. For example: My 5800X has a TDP of 105W. I KNOW some of the AM5 high ends will go even higher than that. I use a Phantom Air cooler for mine, because a basic bitch Coolmaster Evo 212 was too little to keep up. But if you use a 65w dealio, like the 5600X (or some others), you can use pretty much whatever you want because they won't run very warm unless you plan to heavily video edit or other demanding stuff.

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I've had an Asus ROG for the past year. AM4 for a 5700G. I am building my next one using a 8700G but the smaller boards (I want Mini ATX) for a Dell case I am repurposing are more expensive.

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I just built a PIC using a MSI Tomahawk X870. Put an AMD Ryzen 9 on it. Seems to work very well.