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As others are pointing out, that "basic enough" CPU is in fact aimed directly at the overclocking market, as (likely) is the motherboard you put it on. This isn't basic at all, this is a high end tweaker rig. It's just a decade old tweaker rig.


Fair enough. I build it to last 7-10 years typically, so happy to spend a little more on a quality board.

What's the go-to basic mobo brand/board for non-tweakers these days?


There's not a lot, honestly. Pretty much all discrete motherboards are gaming rigs of some form. The basic computer for general users is now a "laptop" (which tend to work quite well for general gaming, FWIW). But the low end choices from the regular suspects (Gigabyte, MSI, Asus) are generally fine in my experience. You do occasionally get a weird/flawed device, like you do with many product areas.


Yeah it really seems the market has bifurcated into "DIY build-a-computer" targeted towards gamers, bedazzled with RGB and all that jazz, and "Buy a used/refurb Dell mini-atx office desktop computer", assuming they don't just default to 'buy a laptop' as you point out.


At this point, if you want the fastest DDR5 ram (for singlethreaded stuff it's a huge help) then all you can get are RGB xxtreme gamer sticks.

My office glows at night because the RGB dimms stay lit up in sleep mode. But they are fast.


Supermicro is usually a good bet.




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