Why paying MORE for motherboard is worth it!? | ASRock Phantom Gaming Z790 Nova WiFi

How do you choose a Motherboard? Which is Intel and which AMD? Is Paying more worth it and what do I get? Questions like these will be answered in this video.

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0:00 Intro
1:06 EXPLAINED: Intel & AMD Chipsets
6:54 Unboxing & What's included?
8:05 Safe Packaging
8:24 Motherboard Back Design
8:45 Power Stages
9:40 Design
9:55 Power & FAN Connectors
10:12 RGB & Post Code
10:52 Front Panel Connectors
10:30 More Headers
12:15 What you get with HIGHER end motherboard?
12:36 Socket & CPU support
12:52 DDR5 Support
13:18 Explained: 6x m.2 Slots & PCIe Switching
13:58 Fan for VRMs & WiFi 7 Card
17:00 IO
19:33 Is it worth going higher end motherboard?
20:45 BEST PC to build for Creators!

[dexsure]

Its a no go because it doesn't have bios flashback. If your bios flash gets corrupted there's no way to flash it again, you have to RMA the whole board. Bios flashback is almost standard across other vendors' motherboards by now.

[MrTearyOne]

The technical and essential difference between AMD X and B motherboards, is that the X boards have (2) onboard chipsets while the B boards have (1) onboard chipset (and the "E" simply means that the board has Gen5 PCIe lanes available instead of just Gen4). The second chip doesn't really affect performance per se - it just changes the configuration of the PCIe lanes and allows for additional lanes coming off the chips. But keep this in mind: THE ADDITIONAL LANES DO NO MATTER unless you actually plan to use all of them. For example if you buy a Gigabyte X670E Aeorus Master with 40 useable PCIe lanes instead of a B650E Aeorus Master with 32 useable PCIe lanes, but you don't use the 8 extra lanes for anything, then you are basically paying $100 extra for no particular reason. Always look at the motherboard block diagrams in the board manual, available on the manufacturer website.

In fact that is probably the number one most common way that people waste money on motherboards: paying for features they don't use. The only "Construction Quality" features I always check are the PCB layer count for running RAM (8+ is excellent, 6 or less is average), and the Power Stages (12-14 is good, 16+ is great, <12 is meh). But other than that, MB shopping is 80% just finding the minimum combination of features that you will actually use on a regular basis. List the features you want first before you look at any boards and start your search there.

"I want (2) m.2 Gen5 slots, minimum 6 SATA ports, Post Code, minimum 8 USB A ports, and a 8x/8x/0x slot configuration. Ok that narrows my search, now I can compare the quality of boards within these parameters."

[JoeStuffzAlt]

The hard part is always the price increase. I feel that most people don't get the $500+ board, especially when the CPU often doesn't cost nearly that much. My next upgrade will be thinking "am I willing to pay $100 more" and that's the hard question.

It shocked me when a freaking BIOSTAR board was $500 ish

[GamingOnArc]

For Intel, "Z" references Enthusiast focus. "H" is home user focus. "B" is business grade focus. "Q" tends to be qualification platforms as is chipsets that were sent to manufacturers as qualifying sample chipsets but are free to distribute on a motherboard after platform release. "X" is for extreme users

[mortont]

I looked at higher end motherboards. I kept coming back to this one. I saved $200.00 by not going with the Z790 AORUS MASTER. I picked up this motherboard from Microcenter for $379.00 what a steal. I'm using a 14700k and G Skill 32GB 7200 in a Corsair 5000X RGB. The only issue I have know is which GPU I should get. Thanks for the overview of this motherboard. 01/06/2024 0741

[MrAbrantes]

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By the way I live in Portugal, you're reaching the whole world!
Thank you for your work!

[NDGNUITY]

Found your channel last week and we love it. Decided to play a drinking game off your chipset explainer video and although we still haven't finished it a whole day later, the only things we can't find are our keys and phones, but like who loses clothes in a drinking game cause we absolutely didn't Thanks to you we've dialed in on the 32-Core Threadripper and are looking at merely upgrading to the 13900K from the i7 same gen cause someone splurged on a motherboard last year. That's worth losing a little dignity over-I mean keys right lol. Seriously though we suspected a few things but your channel really helped to eliminate one build and scale another down.

[vainpilot]

It's the sense of humor for me 🤣 thanks for an informative guide!

[rafflesnh]

Thanks for the review. FYI, you missed that the back panel also has thermal pads sandwiched between it and the m/board (visible through the cpu cutout) which acts as an additional heatsink. ;-)

[BenKlassen]

Excellent review! Thank you very much! I am considering this mobo.

[alpha]

@9:11
I noticed they put a pci-e x1 slot at the bottom of the mobo with the end of the slot cut out for cards with longer connectors to still use the 1x lanes but they put 2 capacitors there so you cant use anything that would stick out of the slot anyway...

[kosta]

Why can't you use full PCIe Gen 5 x16 and M.2 Gen 5 x4 at the same time since all Intel LGA1700 CPUs have 20 PCIe lanes and support that combination?

[liowyew]

In the past, I often chased after new products. Now, no more. Age is catching up. Getting work done really matters.

[barney]

What I got from this video is that it is not worth it? If you're just gaming that is, you can just slap whatever in there, get a few fans and a decent cpu cooler, and you can rock everything in 4k or whatever depending on your equipment.

[helidrones]

From a technical point of view I would cut four or five of the m.2 slots, add some pci-e slots and put some pcie-to-m2 adapter cards into the box. Much more flexible.

[morosis]

The reason Tesla chose AMD is because of their APU offerings, which is a CPU and actually decent GPU on a package. Intel doesn't have an equivalent offering, mostly due to lack of GPU power.

The chip they're using is effectively the same thing as whats in a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series S/X, both supplied by AMD. They may update to the one supplied to the Steam Deck or Asus Ally portable gaming devices, also supplied by AMD.

You can see a pattern here.

[Pabula]

Nova is by far the best offering on Z790 for enthusiast without deep pockets, really hope AsRock continues to release Nova line in Arrow lake.

[dystopia-usa]

I'm happy with my MSI MPG B650 EDGE WIFI AM5 AMD B650 Motherboard, which I paired with the Ryzen 9 7900 12C/24T CPU, KINGSTON Fury Beast 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR5 4800/6000 RAM, a Solidigm (Intel) P44 Pro 2TB M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD (ER=1200TBW) primary/boot drive, & an ASUS TUF 7800-XT GPU. My no overclocking necessary 1440p gaming & productivity build.

[DJaquithFL]

It's all about the lanes and less about the OC. Each line has its "use case" the Z line adds little to no benefit for even those who want to OC a "K" Intel CPU .. good luck trying. The XMP OC is available across all 7 series. Instead, the primary real world difference is the Chipset PCIe Lanes: Z790 28, B760 14, and H770 24. Also more limited support PCIe 5.0 support on the non 790 motherboards.

[sykoteddy]

The higest tier of the motherboards are also those that gets specific limited edition water blocks made, like "mono blocks" and such. Truthfully I didn't listen fully the whole time, so you might have mentioned it.