10th Gen ASUS MB Possibly In My Future.. :D

[AntiCheatAgent94]

Taking a look at a used ASUS 10th Gen Motherboard..

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It says not booting, but I might be able to get it up and running.. It's only $50 and I can get my $$$ back if I can't get it going..

Being that it's likely I will get out from under the $45 a week video card payment and rather then put $$$ into updating this 9 Gen, I might be able to start building a 10th gen..

Comments???

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Find out what sort of shape the CPU socket is in, if there is socket damage like bent pins then forget about trying to fix it. Other issues can be resolved with a reflow or resoldering of components.

I think it is most likely that there will be socket damage as this tends to be the most common fault on pre-owned/used Intel motherboards.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

Yea, that's the first thing I checked.. The socket looks in good shape..





It appears the damage is limited to the frame of the back end that houses all the rear connectors..





I'll know if I can get it or not in a couple days...

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Yep, socket looks clean.

The second picture looks like impact damage but not FUBAR. I wouldn't be able to fix it, but for someone with the right experience and the right tools it shouldn't be too much of a challenge.

You got this buddy.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

Yep, socket looks clean.

The second picture looks like impact damage but not FUBAR. I wouldn't be able to fix it, but for someone with the right experience and the right tools it shouldn't be too much of a challenge.

You got this buddy.

Thanx... It definitely is going to be a project..

The motherboard is slightly tweaked as well.. Likely the point of the impact trauma..



Not enough to cause any broken traces or components, but enough to be concerned..

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

OK So, the other deal fell thru..

But I did get another ROG Z-490 STRIX so I am good ta go..

I can get a 10th Gen Intel 4-Core i3-10105 3.7GHz with Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz Processor for around 90 bucks to put in the ROG Z-490 STRIX.. I am assuming it will be a decent boost even though it's a Core i3 and I currently have a Core i5...

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Take your time and wait for an i5 K model to come up, that way you can add to your funds and little by little you will get what you need.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

If things come together, I might be seeing this in my near future..

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[AntiCheatAgent94]

This is the MB I got for $40...



The guy said he tried it and it wouldn't boot.. I am hoping it's because the pins on the PCI-E connector were shorting..

My hope is that, once I clean up all the pins and remove them from the motherboard, it will boot up with the afore mentioned CPU just fine...

If not, I will have only wasted 40 bucks.. But I am selling my current MB and Core i5 9400F CPU to pay for the new CPU...

Worst case scenario, I won't have a gaming PC for a week or two while I search for a good MB that's compatible with the CPU...

Fingers crossed...

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Good luck with the mobo that could bea snatch at $40 or it could be bad gamble, but not too costly, still, I've got my fingers crossed for.

My initial thoughts are an i7 doesn't offer a big enough gaming performance increase over an i5 to justify the price difference for most people. I'll post more on this after work as I like to check my data before saying too much.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

Good luck with the mobo that could bea snatch at $40 or it could be bad gamble, but not too costly, still, I've got my fingers crossed for.

Thanx. Yea it hopefully will pan out for me..

My initial thoughts are an i7 doesn't offer a big enough gaming performance increase over an i5 to justify the price difference for most people. I'll post more on this after work as I like to check my data before saying too much.

As usual ur efforts are greatly appreciated...

 

[KeyboardDemon]

As usual ur efforts are greatly appreciated...

Anytime buddy.

So, my memory wasn't as good as I thought, I was expecting the i7 to be better than the i5 by a bigger margin than I found when I checked it just now, but it appears that the performance gap between the 11700K and 11600K is only 2% in gaming.

The 11700K with an MSRP of £281 in UK is about £60 more than the 11600K, it gives you 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads, so here in the UK it would cost about 27% more to get an i7 and that would generate an extra 2% in gaming performance.

On paper that makes the 11700K look like a bad deal. However, I did find data for Warzone where testing on the same system with an RTX 3090 and 32GB RAM, running at 1920*1080 and Ultra settings the 11600K was generating an average of 154fps while the 11700K was hitting an average of 176. That's a percentage gain of 14% for the i7. In the test the i5 was running at 77% utilisation while the i7 was typically showing 51% to 57% utilisation at a slightly higher temperature and with about 5 watts higher power draw on the i7.

So the question you need to answer is, do you think it is worth the 27% price difference to see each percentage increase in the price only returning 0.5% increase in frames?

That's the value call you need to make.

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Just a quick afterthought.

If you get that mobo working, don't forget to flash the BIOS to the latest version to make sure it will support an 11th gen CPU. You should be able to do this before you insert your 11th gen CPU into the socket using a 10th gen processor.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

Just a quick afterthought.

If you get that mobo working, don't forget to flash the BIOS to the latest version to make sure it will support an 11th gen CPU. You should be able to do this before you insert your 11th gen CPU into the socket using a 10th gen processor.

That's a good point.. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to flash the BIOS without a CPU... This would mean I would have to get a 10th GEN CPU just for the purposes of flashing the BIOS..

But with ASUS (in theory) you can flash the BIOS with a thumb drive...

How to use ASUS ROG USB BIOS Flashback

How to use the ASUS Republic of Gamers USB BIOS flash back The minimum hardware requirements for USB BIOS flash back is to have a Motherboard with ATX Power Supply on and plugged into the wall. You do not need to have a CPU, RAM, Graphics Card, or Hard Drive connected to the system. The system...

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Which is VERY good news as I will actually be able to test the motherboard w/o having to wait to find/buy/afford a CPU.

Another thought occurred to me.. The guy I got it from said he tried to test the MB with a 10400F and the MB power LEDs would come on, but it wouldn't POST..

If it had already been flashed for an 11th GEN CPU, then that might explain why it wouldn't POST with a 10400 CPU...

I should have the board on Monday..