Build Help
Basically title. About always when I read or ask on the internet about motherboards, the immediate, and seemingly ultimate answer is "just buy one with the features you need", which sounds logical (and so obvious I'm perplexed why this is the immediate and ultimate answer to almost any motherboard query), but... what if I don't need any special features? What if an appropriate cpu socket, ram slots, an m.2 slot, ethernet port and an usb port for keyboard/mouse will do (which literally every motherboard have these days), and I don't need anything extra?
Also, at the same time, people warn about not overpaying for features you don't need, whilst warning about not buying cheap motherboards because they say cheap = bad. So I'm just sitting here, if I choose a cheap motherboard without features I don't need, I get "that's a bad motherboard, you should pay more for a better one", then if I mention a more expensive one "do you really need X and Y features? You can save money by buying a cheaper one"... And then I'm just trapped in an eternal cycle...
Edit: Well, based on the comments, if I buy an expensive motherboard I unnecessarily overspend, and if I buy a cheap one then I make a bad decision. Yay.
Build Help
I'm your average PC enjoyer.
I've built three machines in the last 10 years, and RAM has always been a fairly easy selection, as prioritizing latency seemed to be the right way to optimize that part of the build, particularly since RAM speeds didn't vary much.
DDR5 confounds me a bit. Could be I'm an old now and technology moves too fast for my arthritic brain, but I'm trying to figure out if I ought to prioritize speed or latency.
For example: I know the DDR5 spec is between 4000 to 6400Mhz, but I've heard that you will get better performance out of an 8200Mhz kit with a high latency (38) than a 5600Mhz kit with a lower latency (28) (all other things being equal, such as memory channels, capacity, etc).
Can you all help me get my head on straight, because I'd like to order this kit ASAP and get this f*cker built before the man makes me go back to work next week!
The other compenents are:
Ryzen 7900 (this was chosen due to my cooler limitations, which itself is limited by case dimensions)
Asus X670-I Mini ITX
Sabrent Rocket 4.0
Radeon 6900XT
Thanks crew.
