Micro Center: Intel Core i7-12700K + MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi MoBo + 16GB DDR4 RAM

b00gersugar

May 30, 2023 7:31 PM

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b00gersugarMay 30, 2023 7:31 PM

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Quote from 042360

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The Newegg $426 bundle had 32GB of DDR5. Not sure if that's worth the $76, but it's OOS now anyways.

if it's the bundle i saw, then hell no it's worth it. the ddr5 kit in that bundle was trash and will be slower than a decent ddr4 kit. this is also a dead platform. there will not be any new CPUs or feature updates to it. the best you can hope for is security patches.

if you are going for a 12th/13th gen intel platform at this point in time, as intel is about to EOL it, the best thing to do is spend as little as possible

having said all that, this is an amazing platform to build a low cost, high performance NAS with. this motherboard has lot of expansion options and the CPU has a good mix of fast and efficient cores to which you can assign tasks to. my home NAS has a 12700k and a similar motherboard, albeit from asus. i have media containers running on the P cores while wifi and IoT software is on the E cores. got 3 SSDs for cache, a dual SFP+ nic and SATA RAID controller for my spinning rust on the 16x (4x eletrical) PCI-E slots with tons of room still available for expansion. it runs circles around the over priced synology turd blossom i bought and returned last year.

Last edited by b00gersugar May 30, 2023 at 12:39 PM.

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Anime4life

May 30, 2023 8:12 PM

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Quote from Jarobata

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It seems like for every manufacturer there are people that had a horrible experience and will never buy from them again and people who had the opposite experience. There doesn't seem to be a consensus best company to buy from.

Hmm. Not exactly. Gigabyte is on a whole different level when it comes to product support. I would suggest you to give them a call yourself and see how long it takes to get a human to answer. Its generally over 1 hour.

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prwashbu

May 30, 2023 8:35 PM

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prwashbuMay 30, 2023 8:35 PM

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https://www.microcenter.com/produ...ild-bundle

Is it worth the extra $200 for the next generation version?

jimbobolowskie

May 30, 2023 9:24 PM

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jimbobolowskieMay 30, 2023 9:24 PM

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Quote from 181day

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No shipping available

We know

Mono141

May 31, 2023 2:40 AM

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Quote from liunit92

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what makes the gigabyte one better than the MSI?

Better vrms but I'd take the msi over gigabyte for ram compatibility

WilliamW9379

May 31, 2023 3:21 AM

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WilliamW9379May 31, 2023 3:21 AM

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Any recommendations for a slickdeal CPU fan for this?

essix8

May 31, 2023 5:58 AM

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Quote from RetroWave214

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Would this be a great deal for someone who is building their first PC? I am very new to building so any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Absolutely. This build is still amazing despite it being discounted for being a generation old. Unless youre pairing it with an Nvidia 4090, its a great high performance but good value build.

Quote from myselfdotcom

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Worth keeping everything? I want to upgrade my old i5-4690?

Yes. People will say there are better motherboards, better RAM, and while thats true, its not necessarily worth paying more for. Considering that youre coming from an ancient i5-4690, this build as is magnitudes better. I would not recommend changing anything. The slight weakness is the RAM capacity, 2x8GB is perfectly fine but 2x16GB would be ideal if youre going to use the build for a decade again. You can always add another 2x8GB kit for a total of 32GB, it will be slightly worse than a 2x16GB kit, but id just stick with the 2x8GB until you know you need more.

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richycox

May 31, 2023 6:24 AM

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I know it's been said many times… they should ship.
I wish I could get this deal! It's only 380 miles away. Only.

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worthmining

May 31, 2023 6:15 PM

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worthminingMay 31, 2023 6:15 PM

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Will this deal get restock? It shows out stock in So Cal LA, only after I did research of the choice of cpu and MB and decided what to buy in the current market price range. SSD and RAM on the other hand will be going through many price drops in the coming months due to east Asia brought more factories in production as we speak. Yet Intel's next big thing is still a year away which is supposed revolutionary. For now the 13th gen core are what we can get if time is in essence.

PS, mistaken this as the 13th gen combo deal earlier.

nutshellml

May 31, 2023 6:31 PM

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Quote from prwashbu

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https://www.microcenter.com/produ...ild-bundle

Is it worth the extra $200 for the next generation version?

Wondering same thing…. I plan to use for photo editing and Video editing (no special effect stuff).

jrf

May 31, 2023 7:06 PM

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jrfMay 31, 2023 7:06 PM

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Does anyone know if this could go into an HP Pavilion h8-1020?

crazygideon

May 31, 2023 9:49 PM

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Quote from nutshellml

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Wondering same thing…. I plan to use for photo editing and Video editing (no special effect stuff).

I can't comment on video editing directly because I don't do it, but I've always seen recommendations on having lots of RAM 64gb to 128gb. For photo editing, having a faster processor and especially a high end Nvidia GPU helps with the new AI generation in Photoshop or Denoise features in Lightroom. Batching several dozen photos for Denoise in Lightroom utilized 100% of my 4090 and it still took a few minutes (13900KS CPU).

lastwraith

Jun 1, 2023 3:35 AM

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Quote from Dannny22

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You can move to Chicago .they have 2 stores there..i just moved out of there🤣

Come to NY. Expensive AF here but 4 Micro Centers for you to waste whatever remaining cash you might have...
I used to work at the first one they had here. You took a technology test just to be a CASHIER! Needless to say, met a bunch of future IT people there and those tests are long gone for employees.
Still the best damn store around though, except for Total Wine obviously. That place is Toys 'R Us for adults.

Last edited by lastwraith May 31, 2023 at 08:37 PM.

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Largote

Jun 1, 2023 5:43 PM

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Quote from NMSL

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is it necessary to add another set of 2x8gb ram to this if I wanted to use this bundle?

I think it's very strange to pair this with only 16GB of RAM, so I'd say yes. Actually I'd try to offload these and get 2x16.

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ariusvideo

Jun 2, 2023 11:57 PM

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ariusvideoJun 2, 2023 11:57 PM

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Quote from NMSL

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is it necessary to add another set of 2x8gb ram to this if I wanted to use this bundle?

It's not at all necessary to buy another set of 2x8 for this. It really just depends on what you're going to be doing with the system. If you're going to build a system and throw a 3060 in it for medium to light gaming, then 16 gigs of Ram should be more than fine. If you're going to throw like…a 4090 in there and do some serious 4k ultra settings gaming, then I'd recommend probably nixing the 2x8 altogether and getting like a 2x16 or 2x32 kit. In so many instances, 2 sticks run as dual channel performs better than 4 sticks (of same capacity) in the same system.

Ultimately, though, I'd recommend running the 2x8 set in whatever your use case would be and see if it suits your needs.

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