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    Motherboard Moving from ASUS B760 I to z790, etc...advice needed on best modest price MB

    Dang, if just a little wider a 280mm AIO would fit on the top. Side mounting may require moving the graphics card to the top if not to long for a riser cable, I do not know if their is a limit in length on them. I am going to look into this a bit, just for fun most likely:)
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    Motherboard Moving from ASUS B760 I to z790, etc...advice needed on best modest price MB

    "*Supports PCIe riser cards to extend one x16 slot to two x8 slots" - which means the board supports PCIe Bifurcation." I had to look that up, seen discussion about using two NVME cards on one PCIe slot, now need to see if it can do something to help the graphics card since only one slot, using...
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    Motherboard Moving from ASUS B760 I to z790, etc...advice needed on best modest price MB

    Thanks for posting the video! After all these years of ordering from them I never had one problem and I guess I got very lucky buying two OB motherboards in a row as both are just fine. Looks like I will have to be very careful in the future dealing with them. I have bought what was sold as...
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    Motherboard Moving from ASUS B760 I to z790, etc...advice needed on best modest price MB

    I understand, that is why I only bought them from NewEgg, easy to return if something wrong with them. And I set out with a plan to buy everything used or refurbished, etc, which I was able to do for most everything and cut the build cost nearly in half. Partly because I like the challenge and...
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    Motherboard Moving from ASUS B760 I to z790, etc...advice needed on best modest price MB

    I missed out on an open box Z790 and the Z690 was by far the best board I could get for the money at the time so I bought it to try out. I also supports DDR5 and has XMP but built in DDR5 is limited to 6000 so it needed tweaking a bit to hit 6400. I have to look at the settings again as ended up...
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    Selling RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition, great shape, looking for 4070 or 4070 S or Ti

    Meaning all the taxes, fees, etc being claimed, why after approx 25 years I can no longer sell my personal items through regular PayPal and on Ebay as they collect 34% unless I can prove I am not making a profit....and I seldom keep receipts for up to decades. Anything sold there also makes the...
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    Selling RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition, great shape, looking for 4070 or 4070 S or Ti

    Great card but I have room and the itch up upgrade though really do not need it at all.....just having fun. It works great, looks great, have original box, etc.....I did mod the adapter cable a bit, only half the pins come with connectors and it was getting it the way of the overhead fans so I...
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    Motherboard Moving from ASUS B760 I to z790, etc...advice needed on best modest price MB

    The Asrock board works great but it took me awhile to figure out some of the tweaking on it.
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    Cooling Alphacool NexXxoS ST20 HPE, 280mm thin for i5-13600k and RTX 3080?

    More tweaking, undervolted a different way, dropped 10-15c and gained a bit of performance but not much even mild overclocked. Not able to overclock much more as it crashes on some tests but not others yet the CPU does not get above 50c and closer to 40c on graphics focused tests. On CPU stress...
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    Log Dell Optiplex 7060 Gaming Build UPDATED.

    I think you meant Dell 7060, not HP. To run a 12th gen CPU it requires the new version of the 7000 series, the prior versions, 7060, 70 and 80...will not support the 12th gen. I bought the newest 7010 MB and power supply to replace the 7080 MB as it would only run the 10th gen, as I wanted to...
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    Selling Samsung DDR5, 32GB, 2x16, 4800 CL40 (XMP, etc sets it to 5400)

    Bought new, used for a month or two, lightly, works great, only changed to get black RAM and as expected the 6000 CL32 setup to run 6400 is not really faster, just sounds like it is as it the case from everything I have read...... Located in the US, shipping included in price of $60 in USD Or...
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    Selling Asus ROG Strix B760-I Gaming Wifi motherboard, like new.

    Lightly used for basic PC stuff and learning how to OC and undervolt GPU and RAM, decided to learn how to do so on the CPU so bought a Z690 making this one available. Bought as Open Box from NewEgg, came with all accessories and will ship with them though not in OEM box. Everything works great...
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    Cooling Alphacool NexXxoS ST20 HPE, 280mm thin for i5-13600k and RTX 3080?

    I have reached a point where I need to upgrade my graphics card from the RTX 3060ti and the 3080 seems to be the best in value and performance to match my system. But, the Fractal Ridge case which I really like and need to stick with a slim tower will only allow a 2 slot max graphics card and...
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    Motherboard Moving from ASUS B760 I to z790, etc...advice needed on best modest price MB

    Thanks for being understanding about this, makes me feel much better:) I believe this world will finally sort things out, stop fighting, stop polluting, clean things up and live in peace and enough for all. I also believe this is starting to happen but it takes time and growing pains to take...
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    Log Dell Optiplex 7060 Gaming Build UPDATED.

    I wonder if anyone has tried flipping the card upside down and using a riser cable, mod or make a new bracket, might need additional support, etc...that way a double wide card would work I would think, perhaps even a bit wider than that. Rick