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sinisterDei

sinisterDei

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I have an ASRock B660M-ITX/ac board, along with the box and its original accessories. The only thing I've done to it is I actually swapped out the WiFi M.2 for a WiFi 6 module, but I'll be putting an Intel 3168NGW WiFi 5 module back into it, unless the trade one has WiFi 6. It has an i5-12400 in it right now, and I think a fairly recent BIOS version, and I can update that if need be. It has been 100% rock solid and acts as my kid's daily driver PC. It mostly plays Roblox and Fortnite.

I originally had this board installed into an ITX case - a NZXT H1 which I'll also be selling - but it's subsequently been moved to a mATX case and I want to swap it out for a larger board with more memory slots.

I realize it's a longshot, but if anyone happens to have a mATX DDR4 LGA 1700 board with 4 memory slots and wants to downsize to ITX I'm proposing a simple trade, mine for yours. If your board is significantly better/more expensive then I'd be willing to toss something in to equalize the trade, but ideally it would just be an even swap.
 
I actually found someone to trade, over on Reddit. I haven't actually received the board yet, but hopefully!

So I originally bought a cheap LGA 1700 board for $75, but I didn't notice it was DDR5. I was building a PC out of scrap parts for my neighbor's kids, and I've got spare DDR4 but not spare DDR5, so that was a big oops on my part. MY kid's gaming PC was the one originally installed in the NZXT H1 with the ITX board, but like I said it was moved to a mATX case a while back.

So I decided the best way to deal with the accidental DDR5 board purchase was for me to keep it and put it in my kid's PC; I bought single 16GB stick of DDR5 and swapped it in. He dropped from 32GB, but he won't notice and when I find a spare 16GB stick I can throw it in there. That leaves me with a DDR4 board I can use for my neighbor... but it's kind of crappy to give them a 2-slot ITX board if they didn't want that, especially because the freebie RAM I have is 2x8GB sticks so a 2-slot board would be maxxed out. Plus, they have a mATX case coming to them. Hence trading online for a 4-slot DDR4 board they can have; thankfully ITX boards are actually at somewhat of a premium so it was just an even trade for a slightly newer/nicer mATX board!

Net result should be the neighbor's kiddos get a very nice mATX board to go with their case, they get the RAM I've got but still have room to grow in the future, and some guy online gets to live out his ITX dreams!
 
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