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WTB: Z690M / Z790M M-ATX Motherboard

Warrior

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Looking for a Z690M / Z790M M-ATX motherboard at a decent price or for trade.


List of boards:
  • ASUS Prime Z690M-Plus D4*
  • ASUS Prime Z790M‑Plus D4*
  • ASUS Prime Z790M-Plus (DDR5 version)*
  • ASUS ROG Strix Z690‑G Gaming WiFi**
  • GIGABYTE Z690M AORUS ELITE AX DDR4**
  • GIGABYTE Z790M AORUS ELITE AX (DDR5)**
  • GIGABYTE Z790M AORUS ELITE AX ICE**
  • GIGABYTE Z790M AORUS ELITE**
  • MSI MAG Z690M MORTAR WIFI*
 
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I needed an mATX socket 1700 board and I ended up just going B760 its way easier to get.
 
LigTasm said:
I needed an mATX socket 1700 board and I ended up just going B760 its way easier to get.
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I'm already running a B660 mATX in this setup. I just got a K CPU for it and want to undervolt it to see how low I can get my plex server power usage lol. Coming from AMD it was wild to me that you need a "Z" performance chipset to just undervolt and technically have less performance. 🫠
 
Warrior said:
I'm already running a B660 mATX in this setup. I just got a K CPU for it and want to undervolt it to see how low I can get my plex server power usage lol. Coming from AMD it was wild to me that you need a "Z" performance chipset to just undervolt and technically have less performance. 🫠
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Why not just get a 13500T or 13600T? That's what I use, TDP is 35W vs 125W. Performance is -8% to -20% depending on the application.
 
You can set power limits in my MSI b760 itx ..board. OP have you tried custom PL1 and PL2 limits in bios? Pretty easy to see some savings in power draw this way.
 
El_Capitan said:
Why not just get a 13500T or 13600T? That's what I use, TDP is 35W vs 125W. Performance is -8% to -20% depending on the application.
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I'm coming from a 12500T for this setup, after it was in an AMD EPYC setup last year. Going back to Quick sync to test the power bill some. I got a 13600K in trade for this old setup and now the upgrade itch is hitting hard. Lol. Also this old board has these annoying PCI G3 x1 slots masquerading as PCIx16 slots that I wanted to see if I could upgrade from as well. Didn't have these issues on my EPYC setup 😂.
TheHig said:
You can set power limits in my MSI b760 itx ..board. OP have you tried custom PL1 and PL2 limits in bios? Pretty easy to see some savings in power draw this way.
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I'll definitely check this out. It's only been slapped back together for a week now and I'm still messing around with it. Last time I used it was briefly before I upgraded it. I figured the old B660/12500T setup my go to one of my daughters, but now it's back in action.
 
TheHig said:
You can set power limits in my MSI b760 itx ..board. OP have you tried custom PL1 and PL2 limits in bios? Pretty easy to see some savings in power draw this way.
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Doesn't changing PL1 and PL2 reduce multicore performance? I think setting a negative offset with adaptive voltage Global Core SVID Voltage would be the better option.

There's a new ASUS B760M-AYW WIFI D4 II for $89.99 on Newegg today. You could at least give it a try, and if it doesn't work, return it.
 
El_Capitan said:
Doesn't changing PL1 and PL2 reduce multicore performance? I think setting a negative offset with adaptive voltage Global Core SVID Voltage would be the better option.

There's a new ASUS B760M-AYW WIFI D4 II for $89.99 on Newegg today. You could at least give it a try, and if it doesn't work, return it.
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Nice find for a decent board, but even if I could undervolt it a bit, it's lacking features I already have in my MSI B660M-A CEC. Less RAM slots, less SATA ports, and still 1x slots and 1 less. So, it might not be worth the effort in the end.
 
TheHig said:
You can set power limits in my MSI b760 itx ..board. OP have you tried custom PL1 and PL2 limits in bios? Pretty easy to see some savings in power draw this way.
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Been looking into this, and this might be the ticket for undervolting. Thanks for the suggestion!

I think this will work fine for a Plex server, not looking for crazy performance, but it also does run 40 other containers so it's not nothing.

With that said, I'm still entertaining better boards for their ports and other features. ;)
 
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