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

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Select Micro Center Stores [store locator] have Intel Core i7-12700K Processor + MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi ATX Motherboard + 16GB (2x 8GB) G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 Memory Bundle on sale for $349.99. Select free store pickup where stock permits.

Thanks to community member nellison for finding this deal.
  • Note: May not be available in all areas. Availability for store pickup may vary by location.
Bundle Includes:
  • Intel Core i7-12700K 12-Core / 20 Thread 125W LGA 1700 Socket Processor (No Heatsink Included, BX8071512700K)
  • MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR4 LGA 1700 ATX Motherboard (PROZ690-AWIFIDD)
  • 16GB (2x 8GB) G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 CL16 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit (F4-3200C16D-16GVKB)
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this deal is back, but with another motherboard.

MSI Z690-A Pro WiFi DDR4 Intel LGA 1700 ATX Motherboard

G.Skill Ripjaws V 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 PC4-25600 CL16 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit F4-3200C16D-16GVKB - Black

Intel Core i7-12700K Alder Lake 3.6GHz Twelve-Core LGA 1700 Boxed Processor - Heatsink Not Included

https://www.microcenter.com/produ...ild-bundle
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Created 05-25-2023 at 07:22 PM by nellison
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Some of the features you can see and others you'd have to look up on the companies' websites. There may be advantages to the MSI that I'm missing, and I had every intent to buy an MSI board for this upgrade because they seem to be the best overall choice nowadays. I haven't looked into the quality and number of power stages, and the MSI could be superior there for all I know.

The Gigabyte board has the following features that push it into a slightly nicer tier, whether you want them or not:
Heat sinks for all four NVME drives vs. just one
"Armor" for two of the DIMM slots
Better audio chipset
SPDIF output
Beefier VRM heatsinks?
Integrated IO shield
Built-in RGB and a reset button on board

You'll also notice the MSI board has some busy silk screening on it. This is sometimes used to hide a lack of features (so that you don't readily notice a lack of chips, slots, etc.). Again, MSI was the motherboard company I wanted to buy from because they're getting good reviews and I'm sure it's a fine board. One of the reasons it was chosen to receive coreboot was it was a good value and MSI had already sold a lot of them. Smilie
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jrbt
05-30-2023 at 12:00 PM.
05-30-2023 at 12:00 PM.
Quote from Anime4life :
Wait what? I guess you don't know what horrid is. Gigabyte has the worst service on earth. Good luck reaching out to get a proper tech that knows anything.
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.
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Bodhi_Kamikaze
05-30-2023 at 12:24 PM.
05-30-2023 at 12:24 PM.
I bought the Microcenter bundle of the MSI z690 pro wifi/12700k for $500 A year and a half ago. The motherboard is just a workhorse and it really makes it easy to undervolt the 12700k without losing performance. The wifi performance is also extremely solid. No Frills, just works.

Overall very pleased with the whole setup. I wish i got it at this price with Ram too lol.
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b00gersugar
05-30-2023 at 12:31 PM.
05-30-2023 at 12:31 PM.
Quote from 042360 :
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.
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05-30-2023 at 01:12 PM.
05-30-2023 at 01:12 PM.
Quote from Jarobata :
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
05-30-2023 at 01:35 PM.
05-30-2023 at 01:35 PM.
https://www.microcenter.com/produ...ild-bundle

Is it worth the extra $200 for the next generation version?
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05-30-2023 at 02:24 PM.
05-30-2023 at 02:24 PM.
Quote from 181day :
No shipping available
We know
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05-30-2023 at 07:40 PM.
05-30-2023 at 07:40 PM.
Quote from liunit92 :
what makes the gigabyte one better than the MSI?

Better vrms but I'd take the msi over gigabyte for ram compatibility
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05-30-2023 at 08:21 PM.
05-30-2023 at 08:21 PM.
Any recommendations for a slickdeal CPU fan for this?
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essix8
05-30-2023 at 10:58 PM.
05-30-2023 at 10:58 PM.
Quote from RetroWave214 :
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.
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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
05-30-2023 at 11:24 PM.
05-30-2023 at 11:24 PM.
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
05-31-2023 at 11:15 AM.
05-31-2023 at 11:15 AM.
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.
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nutshellml
05-31-2023 at 11:31 AM.
05-31-2023 at 11:31 AM.
Quote from prwashbu :
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).
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05-31-2023 at 12:06 PM.
05-31-2023 at 12:06 PM.
Does anyone know if this could go into an HP Pavilion h8-1020?
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05-31-2023 at 02:49 PM.
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Quote from nutshellml :
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).
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05-31-2023 at 08:35 PM.
05-31-2023 at 08:35 PM.
Quote from Dannny22 :
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.
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