Recent content by ikjadoon

It should be better, as @rfarmer noted. Though, I did a quick check and some still might be having WHEA issues with 13th Gen and or PCIe 4.0 SSDs? But, I honestly haven't checked on it again and have no personal experience, so a grain of salt. reddit.com: /r/gigabyte search results - z690i...

I’m sorry to hear about the Artesian Builds. You’ve made the right decision here. If making your own company will be tough, I’m hopeful there will be alternative ways to market / sell / license it. The community is large and I’m confident there is a “right-sized” solution. The cases look...

As an update, GIGABYTE's unfortunate choices recently (AIO compatibility above, the long-running WHEA issues, and the exploding PSUs / banning reviewers) have pushed me to avoid this board. Specifically, the WHEA errors are now 3+ months old. Tellingly, GIGABYTE hasn't made much progress...

Good to see more updates coming out. Just grabbed an i7-12700K and am shopping around for a good DDR4 motherboard. Has anyone tried Arctic Cooling's Liquid Freezer II on the Gigabyte Z690I Aorus Ultra? It's not on the LGA 1700 incompatibility list, so I was helpful; I asked Arctic Cooling a...

I'd also drop in a vote for the Meshlicious. One little speedbump: the right-angle monitor / display cables, but if you have the cables, it's probably pretty quick. If you have / could get the 185mm riser, you can do more tests w/ shorter GPUs placed "horizontally", though not sure how useful...

Yes! I assume dual 2x280mm would take too much space, but maybe easier support for smaller rads? I don’t know what can be done but just adding a vote. One minor thing I’d wished for: clarity on the product pages, e.g., no SKUs support 2x 120mm rads nor horizontally mounted GPUs out of the box...

Oh, there ya go. Missed the now quite-clear front page story on it. I'd forgotten the L9i doesn't use even use brackets. Usually, it's just a bracket change (e.g., LGA2066 and LGA11xx), but even the NH-D15 (which definitely uses brackets) requires a new heatsink revision for the best LGA1700...

I've not seen 50W yet, but Tom's Hardware did find that DDR5 can add between 1W to 25W more. Sometimes, the i7-12600K DDR5 consumes more than the i9-12900K DDR4. Dark mode warning: // Returning to the motherboard topic, has anyone noticed that many Z690 mini-ITX motherboards have poor...

What’s up with USB-A ports? You’d think with so many HSIO lanes unused on mini-ITX, they could throw us a bone. Maybe I’m old school, but 5x USA-A ports on a desktop motherboards seems oddly limiting. 😞 ASRock Z690 Phantom - 5x ASRock Z690M - 6x MSI Z690I MEG - 6x ASUS Z690I - 7x Gigabyte...

You aren't spoiled by B550 pricing. This is genuinely a larger mark-up than in previous generations. Not to necro an old post, but I'm shopping around lately and have also been stunned. My 2018 ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac (the highest-end variant of the Z370 cycle) had a $179.99 MSRP. Intel did...

I'm not sure how to edit posts; the 216 W to 288 W range is noted in the ATX12VO specification on page 30. Though, as Intel mentions, smaller/medium-size boards could do away with the EPS 8-pin: we can hope for some ultra-low-power mITX boards! I do admit not all users need to reserve 100 W...

As Choidebu wrote, the 8-pin EPS is for CPUs. ATX12VO is a motherboard/PSU specification and doesn't deal with CPUs. If we want lower CPU draw, that's an Intel/AMD issue. Most motherboards stay with the 8-pin and will continue to because today the mainstream CPU sockets must 10C/20T CPUs (a net...

Yes, agreed! More testing will suss this out and yes: at load, exactly, I'll take the noise. But I returned the unexpectedly-loud SSP-300SUB. In its stead, I bought the SS-300M1U and it runs far cooler. And no fan noise at all. A win-win.

Quick question, @Otamot. Did you ever get around to testing this unit? Does yours have this crazy-fan behavior? I bought one two days ago and the semi-passive fan has been making me go crazy. I'm running an i5-8600K with a GT 710. No overclock, stock voltages, stock Intel CPU heatsink/fan...

No worries; the article popped in my mind. Er, wait: that article actually doesn't show stock clocks throttling, but it's also high-end water / below-ambient cooling. More so, their benchmarks stress most or all of the 12 threads simultaneously. Got it, yes. This makes sense: the i7-8700K...