With ram you can run fully customized skyrim on a 32G usb stick with 16G of ram better than NVME cause caching is ram level speed.
as opposed to ram caching âŚlol
Games target console level memory and it sucks
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X570 refresh boards with the intel 2.5G nic would be really nice.
Because certain B550 already have that new lan chip.
Which is a little bit of a bummer in regards to current X570 boards.
Which only have a 2.5 realtek solution.
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The phantom gaming itx I have is solid, you could get the full size version of it.
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Rocking Steel Legend series⌠myself.
The Asrock X570 Phantom Gaming X is indeed a decent board as well.
However and now i will be picky again, its not worth its price premium over the x570 taichi.
Because they are pretty much the same board.
The only additional thing the Phantom Gaming X has is an additional 2.5 realtek nic.
So i don´t really think that nic alone justifies itâs price premium.
Because at that price point there is also the X570 Aorus Master from Gigabyte. 
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all the ads
What ads ? Ublock goes a long ways⌠
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Can´t wait to see some real world benchmarks of those new chips.
Just to see if their ipc gain turns out to be true.
And making them worth paying extra for at this point in time.
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Mine has an intel nic. Thatâs odd.
The X570 Phantom Gaming X has both a 1G intel nic,
and a 2.5G realtek.
And the X570 Taichi only comes with the 1G intel nic.
But the price premium over the Taichi is a bit steap i guess.
But of course prices could vary per country.
And it´s also a matter of personal preference ofc.
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Also on a side note, from my honnest opinion.
People shouldnât really spend more then $350 to max $400,-
on a main stream motherboard really.
I don´t think that spending more on a mainstream board really makes allot of sense,
for the simple fact that mainstream is simply too limited in pci-e lane expandability to begin with,
to really justify their rediculous $500,- + price premiums.
But that is just my opinion of course.
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I do not like spending more than 200 unless ultra premium and niche abilities.
Amd is guilty of skewing mb market in this regard.
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Agree, there are also decent $200,- to $250 price point x570 boards,
that totally run the Ryzen 9 chips with no single problem.
But those boards are kinda slightly limited in features generally.
So unless you don´t really care for enough usb connectivity etc,
and you mainly just want the cores and the raw cpu performance.
Then those good $200,- ish boards like the X570 Tomahawk etc will be great bang for buck.
Or hence even certain $170,- to $200,- ish B550 boards.
On which some of them are actually pretty feature packed,
for the physicaly limitations they basically have.
Iâm really looking forward to see what the upcoming refresh x570 boards might be upto.
With the most common GPU on steam being intel HD graphics, intel fans are cheap asses. 
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Im kinda buying a cpu but I want a ripper
the threadrippers
guess those will launch before or after intel tries to launch 11th gen ?
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You mean âkicks it out the doorâ
Uhhh, I think Intelâs trying to do March or February.
AMD announced in July 7 for R3k, and Nov 7 for TR3k. So, maybe weâll see January/February? Maybe.
Everythingâs in limbo because of the coof.
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