PC parts

Hey !

I’m pretty sure you guys can help.

I candidly bought an i9 9900k CPU... to eventually realize I need to update my MOBO.

I’d love not to spend a fortune getting a new one. Ideally it’d be a micro ATX MOBO, and as a bonus, hackintosh friendly (even though it’s likely I’ll permanently switch to Windows 10 Pro as my first tests with the OS are surprisingly positive).

I don’t really plan to OC, might be cool if I can but I don’t mind really.

Another solution would be to go ATX and get a new case, but I’ll happily avoid the expense if I can.

I plan to use my current PSU, GPU ans SSDs. I’ll have to buy RAM (my sessions are CPU crunchers but not demanding when it comes to RAM). Already got a badass Noctua ventirad.

I’ll recycle my current i7 6700k rig into a super compact one to supplement my laptop and to offload processing, my live set-up is absurdly demanding.

As always, thanks a billion !

PCPartPicker is going to get you way better results than WATMM

r/buildapc too

Not that familiar with ordering PC parts but newegg is usually pretty cheap:

https://www.newegg.com/Motherboards/Category/ID-20

This specific category on Newegg is what you'd want to be picking from-

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007627 600009017 600567584 601322313 601303737 601304476 4017 4018&Order=3

Newegg doesn't deliver to Europe, though, and I'm pretty sure Nil is French

Thanks everyone, I finally went for a Gigabyte Z390 M Gaming (as it happens to also be hackintosh friendly). I believe I'll have to update BIOS though (haven't have time yet to build the PC).

Now, next challenge will be either to buy a super compact, hyper transportable case to put the i7 6700k + MOBO, as VST processing satellite, or maybe to find something like an empty NUC to put the i7 in. No rush as it'd be to play live...

  On 10/8/2020 at 11:11 AM, rhmilo said:

Newegg doesn't deliver to Europe, though, and I'm pretty sure Nil is French

I bought my laptop from there, so I think they do. Cant remember but maybe I just had to pay customs.

  On 10/9/2020 at 8:56 PM, chassis said:

I bought my laptop from there, so I think they do. Cant remember but maybe I just had to pay customs.

Not anymore, unfortunately. Something to do with COVID.

  On 10/9/2020 at 10:31 PM, rhmilo said:

Not anymore, unfortunately. Something to do with COVID.

Ah right, Id say with the severe lack of air travel, the price of cargo by air freight makes prohibitive.