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TetsuoS2 posted...

personally dont think you need ddr5, marginal performance benefits, and a z690 motherboard, it gives you no real performance benefit and i honestly doubt you'd overclock high enough to care about the vrms, if at all.

scaling down the motherboard and ddr5 to b660 and ddr4 would either save you money or put you into the 13600k upgrade, which would give you significant gains in both multithreaded and single threaded workloads.

A Scythe Fuma 2 would also blow out a 120mm watercooler and be significantly be more reliable.

If anyone can justify why this dude needs a Z690 and DDR5 while not saturating his storage allocation and a gpu that wouldn't push his cpu that much to need another boost from ddr5, let me know.

like so: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZXzLBj

I tried to do the math and thought it was a ~$70 difference between DDR4 + MoBo and DDR5 + MoBo, but this list made a big difference:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/x2CW8r
It says it has compatibility issues but seems like I can just update the bios.

I wanted DDR5 because it seems more future proof. Would rather buy a new CPU later, I think, than a new motherboard (+ RAM). Honestly, I'm not entirely adverse to just paying an extra $70 for a better CPU if it'll make a big diff.

Edit: This cooler? https://pcpartpicker.com/product/D3Gbt6/scythe-fuma-2-revb-3944-cfm-cpu-cooler-scfm-2100