☞ The temperature is warming, and the workers and student party have embarked on a new journey. CPUs, graphics cards, memory, and solid-state have been replaced, and after a short vacation, there are so many new products waiting for everyone to choose. This year's 618 must be a good time to install a machine, but the premium of new products is serious, and it may still be a year of confusion for the party.
▲ Nvidia RTX5070 graphics card
☞ In the past 2 months, the Core i-series processors have fallen slightly, and the Core Ultra has fallen sharply (some exceeding 20%), and the Ultra 7 series has a high purchase value; The cheap H810/B860 motherboard is on the market, and the threshold for assembling the new platform is lowered, but at this stage, it is still dominated by the clearance of the Core i platform. Nvidia launched new RTX5080, RTX5070Ti and other products, there is a significant premium, the new product AI computing power has been significantly improved compared with the previous generation, but the benchmark performance has been improved in general, in addition, RTX5070 will meet consumers in early March.
▲ AMD RX9070st显卡
☞ AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors fell slightly, and the X3D series, which had skyrocketed in price in the early stage, fell a lot in the past month; The new RX7650 GRE/8GB graphics card is launched, which is essentially a frequency-boosted version of the old RX7600; The RX9070/9070XT graphics cards were released at competitive pricing and will debut in early March. In terms of other accessories, the prices of DDR4 and DDR5 memory remained stable as a whole, with some falling slightly; SSDs remained stable overall, and more new PCIe 5.0 solid-state products were launched, but PCIe 3.0/4.0 was more cost-effective; The water of mechanical hard disk is very deep, and friends who seek stability are not recommended to pursue low-cost second-hand purchases, and the capacity must start at 2TB.
☞ Hardware price changes over the past 2 months:
★ Intel: mixed, mostly small;
★ AMD: The old model rose slightly, and the new model fell slightly;
★ Memory: stable overall, with some slight declines;
★ HDD: Stable overall;
★ SSD: Remains stable overall;
★ Graphics card: A slight increase overall.
[2.1] Commercially available processor quotations
▲ Mainstream 12th-14th generation processor parameters and quotations
☞ The quotation clarifies whether the price source of the disassembled piece is disassembled or brand-new, but it should be noted that the disassembled piece is second-hand after all, so its pricing will not be unified, and it is often closely related to the condition of the CPU, so the above quotation is for reference only and does not represent the specific situation of all stores. However, whether it is Intel or AMD, if you just want to buy a CPU, try to choose a loose chip, and the price of the disassembled chip is slightly lower and more cost-effective. The purchase channel for loose pieces (disassembled pieces) is generally Taobao, Xianyu or Pinduoduo (be sure to distinguish between the official version and the beta version).
☞ Intel Core Ultra 200S series processors are currently seeing a surge in promotions, with a significant downward revision overall. The new processor uses TSMC's 3nm manufacturing process, which reduces the operating frequency and power consumption while eliminating hyper-threading technology. However, thanks to the significant improvement in the performance of P-core and E-core, the comprehensive performance of the new processor is still improved in the case of "double reduction", which shows that the new architecture has been significantly improved. The Core Ultra is still in the optimization stage, and the performance will be further improved with the improvement of the BIOS and operating system.
▲ Mainstream AMD platform Ryzen (architecture) series processors
*Special reminder: AMD platform should be used with the latest Windows 11 24H2 version as much as possible to improve performance; Update the motherboard BIOS as soon as the new Core Ultra 200S processor arrives, and Windows 11 23H2 is recommended for the operating system.
▲ Intel processor development generation list
▲ AMD processor development list
[2.2] collocation analysis
[Entry-level market: 0~500 yuan]
☞ Economic echelon: Intel camp can choose Celeron G6900 (about 200 yuan of disassembly film is suitable), with UHD710 core graphics card, suitable for 4K high-definition playback, Office document office, but Intel 300 processor, Pentium G7400 cost performance is very low. The rest can also choose old platforms, Intel Core i 2nd-9th generation, AMD Ryzen 1st-3rd generation, etc.
☞ Entry-level echelon: Low-budget consumers can consider AMD's R5-5500, Intel i3-12100F and other processors with a low-end bright card like R5-235/240, HD8470, etc. Among them, i3-12100F is maintained around 330 yuan, which is super cost-effective, and its upgraded i3-13100F and i3-14100F have a small performance improvement (+3%~8%), and the price is more than 50% more expensive. The i3-12100/13100 with its own nuclear graphics is not worth choosing, and it is not as suitable as the i5-12400F+ bright machine card.
[Low-end market: 500~800 yuan]
☞ Mainstream echelon: The price difference between the 12th generation i5-12400F (6 cores and 12 threads) and the 13th generation i5-13400F (10 cores and 16 threads) is only 100 yuan, and it is recommended to give priority to the latter. The i5-14400F is 2% stronger than the i5-13400F, and the price is 45 yuan more expensive, which can also be selected. Friends who need to verify can consider i5-12400 and i5-13400 as appropriate.
☞ R5-5600 performance is comparable to i5-12400F but the price is lower, R7-5700X maintains around 700 yuan, higher-end Ryzen 5000 series is not recommended, it is better to go directly to AM5 Ryzen, now the price of 600 series motherboards is not expensive, DDR5 cheap models are everywhere, and R5-8400F is also in the early 600s. AM4 users who need to integrate the graphics core can choose the R5-5500GT/5600GT (including Radeon graphics core), the display core performance is similar to that of the RX550, and with dual-channel memory, it can run some mainstream stand-alone machines with low image quality, including Black Myth. Users who choose R5-8400F should note that because it uses Ryzen APU architecture, the PCIe graphics card lane is cut in half (4.0*8), and it is recommended to use it with RTX4060, RX7650GRE or Intel B580.
[Mid-range market: 800~1500]
☞ i5-12600KF loose pieces are maintained at more than 900 yuan, and the cost performance is average, so it is better to choose i5-13490F and i5-14400F; i5-13500 (14 cores and 20 threads) comes with UHD770 core graphics card, the disassembly piece is about 1000 yuan, it is designed for 6P+8E, the performance is 20% stronger than i5-13400, and the cost performance is good. The above i5 does not consume much power, so it is recommended to use it with a low-end motherboard such as H610/B660 or B760 (the power supply reaches the level of 6+1 phase), and the heatsink can be paired with entry-level products in the tower quad heat pipe.
☞ The 13th-14th generation i5K continues to reduce prices, i5-14600KF (6P+8E) price is close to 1100 yuan, the purchase value is very high, and it is no longer recommended to consider the 12th generation i7 processor. The 13th generation i7-13700F (8P+8E) disassembly piece enters 1500 yuan, and the new one is more than 1500 yuan, which is worth considering!
☞ There are also many optional 7000/9000 series Ryzens in this price range, and the newly launched R5-7400F only has a boost frequency 0.30GHz lower than the R5-7500F, and the price is in the early 800s. After a round of price adjustments, the R5-9600X loose piece fell to 1269 yuan, which is very suitable for game users, and the R7-9700X rose to 8 cores. The Ryzen 7000/9000 series also fully integrates the Radeon graphics core of the 2CU unit (except for the F series), which is similar to the UHD730/770 in performance, suitable for light games such as office, audio-visual entertainment, and LOL.
☞ The R5-8600G is currently recommended for the 8000G series APU, which comes with a Radeon 760M display core performance between GTX1050Ti and GTX1650, which can play all mainstream stand-alone games, and also comes with an NPU unit. Like R3-8300G, R5-8500G are all hybrid architectures of large and small cores, the former is 1 large + 3 small, the latter is 2 large + 4 small, the difference between the large and small cores is the different operating frequency, the integrated 740M display core performance is average, and there is no NPU. The R7-8700G (Radeon 780M) is too expensive to choose.
[Mid-to-high-end market: 1500~2500 yuan]
☞ The Core i-series processors in this range are currently only recommended for the i7-13700 family, and the motherboard is recommended to be paired with a cost-effective mid-to-high-end B760 motherboard (should reach 8+1 phase and above), the price is similar to the Ultra 5 package, and the performance has a crushing advantage, suitable for all kinds of consumers. The rest of the high-end Core i is not of high purchase value, so it is better to look at the situation in the future and go directly to the Core Ultra.
☞ The new Core U5-225F/230F is priced at a high price (replacing the i5-14400F/14490F respectively), and the promotion is not large, so there is no value to buy at this stage! Even if the U5-245KF is adjusted, it is still too expensive compared to the i5-14600KF. Core Ultra 7 has dropped sharply, the price reduction is even close to 30%, after this round of price reduction, Ultra 7 has been very close to the 14th generation i7, plus the price of the B860 motherboard is acceptable, the new platform can already replace the old platform. The Core Ultra focuses on strengthening AI computing power, with an integrated NPU unit computing power of 13 TOPS. The U5-225 integrated 2*Xe core graphics card has 4 TOPS computing power, and the U5-245K/U7/U9 series integrated 4*Xe core graphics card has 8 TOPS computing power, which can meet the basic office AI needs.
☞ AMD's X3D series processors are generally not cheap, the cheapest is 1400 yuan R7-5700X3D, but the game performance is not as good as the direct group AM5 platform. For the graphics card collocation of AMD processors, ordinary consumers can choose ordinary models such as R5-7400F/7500F or R5-9600X/R7-9700X with RTX4070Ti and graphics cards below the RTX5070 level.
[High-end market: 2500 yuan and above]
☞ The 13th/14th generation i9 has little extra small core compared to the i7, and the price is much more expensive than the i7, so it is better to consider the new Core Ultra 7 and Ultra 9 families. The price of the Core U9-285/285K on sale is stable, and the price is basically around 4000 yuan, all of which are in a state of sale, and they are all waiting for the Core i to clear the goods. Both will be slightly better than the i9-14900K in terms of performance, and both integrate NPU with 13 TOPS computing power.
☞ In this price range, gaming parties can consider the Ryzen R9-9900X/9950X, and consumers who pursue the ultimate gaming performance can also choose the R7-9800X3D to match RTX5080 or RTX5090D, and the game performance is fully crushing the Intel Core Ultra 9 and i9 processors. In the past month, the price of mainstream X3D processors has been lowered, and the upcoming R9-9950X3D is not destined to be cheap, in general, the regular R9 is more affordable and more worthy of choice.
[2.3] Intel processor price change table
[2.4] The latest CPU ladder diagram
☆ First of all, you can refer to the quotation range of the current market, the price of the independent display card rose slightly in February, and the premium of the new graphics card is serious.
☆ For a long time, the price of NVIDIA discrete graphics cards has remained stable, and it has enough confidence not to reduce prices, and even during the intergenerational change, it can also cause price increases in the form of suspension and production reduction! In contrast, AMD graphics cards will be more heavily promoted. If you want to pursue a low price as much as possible, you can start from Taobao, Pinduoduo and other channels. You can also see if JD.com or Tmall can sell some ultra-low discounts on the promotion day. You can also buy the tying set launched by the seller, which is more cost-effective.
[3.1] entry-level market / 0~1500 yuan
★ HD graphics card: If you don't plan to buy a discrete graphics card for the time being, you can give priority to the graphics core that comes with the CPU, such as the UHD/Xe HD graphics card that comes with Intel processors, and the Vega/Radeon graphics core that comes with the AMD-APU family. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the integrated display output interface that comes with the motherboard, because the display core signal output inside the CPU needs to rely on the display output interface of the motherboard.
▲ This interface must match your own display,Under normal circumstances, as long as the motherboard comes with HDMI or DP interface,Basically, mainstream high-definition、High-brush displays can be connected。 Any core graphics card (in the past 10 years) can output up to 4K resolution pictures with HDMI or DP display output interfaces, and the integrated display cores in the past 10 years have supported the encoding and decoding of mainstream formats 4K ultra-high-definition video (8K support in recent generations).
☞ Graphics cards within 1,000 yuan give priority to RX6500XT,In the early 1,000 yuan, you can choose RTX3050/6GB,Its performance is about RTX3050/8GB80%,It can almost be regarded as a ray tracing version GTX1660,The main advantage is low power consumption,Most products can be used without external power supply,The price of cheap models is around 1200 yuan。 In addition, it is also recommended to choose RX6600 within 1400 yuan, and the performance benchmark is RTX3060/8GB, but it is not too common.
☞ The price is around 1300 yuanIntelA750/8GB graphics card can be considered as appropriate,The cost performance is also very good,With the continuous optimization of the driver,There is no problem with game performance,It's not too good to support some old games。 A380/6GB graphics card of about 800 yuan can also be selected, and the game performance is better than GTX1650 compared to RX6400, and the video memory is also larger, suitable for video production users.
[3.2] mid-end market / 1500~3000 yuan
☞ The AMD camp can choose the newly listed RX7650 GRE/8GB in this price range (the parameters directly refer to the original RX7600, but the frequency is slightly higher), even if the initial price is 2049 yuan, but the actual price of the major models is concentrated in the range of 1800 yuan to 2000 yuan, the performance will be slightly better than the RTX4060, but the power consumption is also slightly higher. RX6750 GRE/10GB can also be selected, the video memory is larger and the performance is better, the disadvantage is that the power consumption is higher, and the quotation is also concentrated in the range of 1800 yuan-2000 yuan. Within 3000 yuan, you can also choose RX7700XT/12GB, its price is generally slightly lower than RTX4060Ti/8GB, the performance is closer to RTX4070, and the video memory also has obvious advantages, which is more suitable for 2K game needs, the cheap model is quoted around 2800 yuan, and the luxury model is generally around 3000 yuan.
☞ The current price range of the Nvidia camp is basically RTX4060,Its cheap model price is around 2200 yuan,At the moment you want to assemble a host with a RTX4060 graphics card, the total price can be controlled within 4000 yuan,In additionRTX40 series has certain advantages in ray tracing、DLSS and other technical performance,The graphics card can achieve large-scale games1080P resolution under high image quality flow and eating。
☞ The performance of Intel's B580 graphics card is RTX4060 benchmark, and the promotional price is basically around 1800-1900 yuan, and the video memory is up to 12GB, which has an obvious advantage over RTX4060. Although the performance of the B570 graphics card with a lower performance is reduced by about 15% (between RTX3060 and RTX4060), the price has also been lowered accordingly, and the minimum can be pressed to less than 1700 yuan.
[3.3] high-end market / more than 3000 yuan
☞ Nvidia camp 40 series here,RTX4060Ti/8GB beggar version is concentrated around 3200 yuan,16GB video memory version needs to be more expensive10%,At the moment you want to assemble a configuration with RTX4060Ti graphics cardThe configuration is expected to cost around 5000 yuan。 More budget consumers can currently choose between RTX4070, RTX4070 Super, or RTX4070Ti Super. Considering that the RTX50 is in full layout, the above graphics cards should be selected as much as possible in order to widen the price gap with the RTX50 series with similar performance.
☞ The NVIDIA camp RTX50 series mainly strengthens the AI computing power, and the actual game performance has not improved much, and more of the improvement comes from the blessing of DLSS 4, and after DLSS 4 is devolved to the RTX40 series in the future, the game gap between the two generations will be significantly narrowed. At present, the premium of the new card is serious, RTX5080 the starting price is 8299 yuan, but it is basically sold to more than 9500 yuan, and the actual performance is about 15% higher than RTX4080S. The starting price of RTX5090D is 16,499 yuan, and the current price is 8,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan. Standard RTX5090 is forbidden to be sold in mainland China due to policy reasons, so it even has to be increased to more than 30,000 yuan to buy it. RTX5070Ti starts at 6299 yuan, and the price is generally increased by 800 yuan-1500 yuan at this stage, and the performance is similar to RTX4080S. The regular RTX5070 will be available to consumers in March, and the rest of the RTX5060 and other affordable models will have to wait a little later.
☞ The RX7800XT of the AMD camp is benchmarked against Nvidia's RTX4070, but its performance is better than the latter, and the current price can be pressed to less than 3500 yuan. The price of RX7900 GRE and RX7900XT is mainly concentrated in the range of 4000 yuan to 6000 yuan, and it is not recommended to buy it. AMD's upcoming RX9070XT and RX9070 are expected to benchmark their performance against RTX5070Ti and RTX5070 respectively, but the pricing is only 4999 yuan and 4499 yuan, which will be seen in March. If the price of the new card is true (it can be bogged), it is a great value for money.
[3.4] Daily Q&A
★ Q1: I want to build a computer to play "Black Myth Wukong", what graphics card should I use?
☆ A1: This game has a low CPU demand, and under the 1080P low image quality setting, RX580/8GB, GTX1660 and other ancient graphics cards can still play this game smoothly at high FPS. Your settings in the game are very important, for example, the oversampling definition should not be set too high, 75 is relatively high, and when the graphics card performance is insufficient, you can adjust it to around 50 (adjusting to 25~30 is too low), and at the same time, ray tracing should not be turned on randomly, and the super-resolution sampling form must be turned on and selected correctly. RTX4060 this kind of mainstream game card can basically be opened globally and turn on ray tracing effects, but you can't randomly select "film and television" special effects. Many netizens messed up the picture quality settings, and finally told a certain graphics card that could not run the game. At 4K resolution, even RTX4090 top-of-the-line graphics card running film-level special effects may not be smooth.
★ Q2: At the end of the day, how do I determine the graphics card requirements for a game?
☆ A2: Please refer to the official configuration recommendation of the game, under normal circumstances, the game publisher will give the "minimum configuration" and "recommended configuration" reference, which correspond to the configuration requirements of low image quality (non-very low) and 1080p medium high/high image quality (non-very high) respectively. With the popularity of 2K and 4K, game developers often provide configuration requirements for these two types of resolutions.
[3.5] The latest graphics card ladder diagram
[4.1] Mainstream memory quotation
[4.2] Overview of the situation
☆ In the past month, the prices of DDR4 and DDR5 memory have remained stable as a whole, with some small decreases. At this stage, the common 8GB capacity DDR4 memory (2666MHz-3600MHz frequency) corresponding quotations on the market are mainly concentrated in the range of 80 yuan to 140 yuan, and the mainstream capacity of a single bar is 8GB, 16GB and 32GB; The mainstream frequency of DDR5 memory is generally 4800MHz-8000MHz or higher, and the mainstream single capacity is generally 8GB (a small amount), 16GB, 24GB, 32GB, 48GB, and 64GB, which means that in DDR5 systems, even if the motherboard only has dual memory slots, you can also get up to 128GB of system memory (depending on the support of the CPU and the motherboard). If you just want to try DDR5 or have to choose DDR5, you can consider DDR5-4800, their performance is similar to DDR4-3600, and the price is similar, the price of cheap 8GB DDR5 memory is in the range of 110 yuan to 150 yuan, and 16GB is in the range of 190 yuan to 250 yuan. The price of second-hand disassembled 4GB DDR4 memory is only more than 20 yuan, which is suitable for the choice of garbage picking platform, and the frequency can be 2133~2666.
[4.3] Platform support
☞ Intel's 12th-14th Gen processor memory controllers support both DDR4 and DDR5 memory, but what kind of memory you use must also be paired with the corresponding motherboard, and the two types of memory cannot be mixed. Most Intel 600/700 series motherboards will offer both memory options, such as the MSI B760M-BOMBER D4 and B760M-BOMBER D5. H610 supports DDR5 of little significance, because it can only support the corresponding operating frequency according to the frequency support of the CPU's built-in memory controller, of which the 12th generation of the full series and the 13th and 14th generations of processors lower than i5-13600K/14600 only support the default D5 frequency up to DDR5-4800, and the rest are only DDR5-5600.
☞ Intel Core Ultra 200S series processors only support DDR5 memory and are no longer DDR4 compatible. The default D5 frequency of the processor memory controller can support up to DDR5-6400, and the motherboard can also be overclocked to support ultra-high frequency above 8000MHz through motherboards such as B860 and Z890.
☞ AMD's 7000/8000/9000 series Ryzen based on the AM5 interface only supports DDR5 memory, and all A620/B650/X670 and B840/B850/X870 motherboards on the market use DDR5 memory slots, while previous generations of AM4 interface-based Ryzen only support DDR4 memory.
☞ For more information, please refer to the following table:
[4.4] Memory capacity
★ 8GB (popular in 2014~2025): suitable for regular office office, online games, and general games;
★ 16GB (popular in 2020~2026): suitable for multi-task office, general design rendering, and large stand-alone;
★ 32GB or higher (2022~): suitable for high-budget or high-demand, professional design groups, etc.
[4.5] Frequently Asked Questions
【Q】How do I group dual-channel memory? What are the requirements for group dual-channel memory?
[A] Whether it is DDR3, DDR4 or DDR5, the dual-channel memory only needs to have the same interface and can be lit up and recognized by the system at the same time, regardless of capacity or frequency. Dual-channel memory banks with different frequencies and capacities are called "elastic dual-channels". If it is a board with 4 sockets (1, 2 is a channel, 3, 4 is a channel), when inserting two, it is recommended to insert 1, 3 positions or 2 and 4 positions (that is, spaced a vacancy / 1 near the CPU to the first socket position as 1) to form a dual channel, but it must be preferred to insert 2 or 4 bits, followed by 1 and 3 bits (as shown in the figure below). To put it simply, bits 1 and 3 are extensions of bits 2 and 4, and bits 2 and 4 perform better. In fact, plugging in 1 or 4 bits or plugging in 2 or 3 bits can also form dual channels (because they are also on two different channels), but the performance is poor, and some motherboards will directly report errors or do not light up.
[5.1] Quotation of mechanical hard disk
The price of mechanical hard disks in Taobao or PDD will be more cost-effective, but you need to keep your eyes open when buying mechanical hard disks, and those hard disks that are obviously abnormally low must be refurbished or repaired, and the seller claims that you can treat them as second-hand. At present, mechanical hard disks are no longer just needed, and the purchase of mechanical hard disks must start with 2TB capacity, because 1TB is a blood loss and there is no price advantage compared with SSDs! The speed is far inferior to SSD. SMR shingled disc is widely popular, and the price is cheaper than CMR vertical disc, but the performance is slightly weaker. Since SSDs are generally used nowadays, there is no need for consumers to pay too much attention to the performance of HDDs. But to say one thing, if you usually just want to buy a mechanical hard disk to store some irrelevant things, such as games, movies, etc., you can go to Taobao to buy a second-hand mechanical disk, the price of second-hand mechanical disk cabbage, like the price of a 500GB disassembly disk is about 30 yuan.
☞ In terms of mechanical hard disk selection, the current product line for daily household use is basically Western Digital Blue Disk/Purple Disk, Seagate Barracuda or Toshiba P300/DT01 series, just buy it, Purple Disk and other monitoring disks, Galaxy, and other enterprise-level hard disks can also be used at home, and the capacity is recommended to start from 4TB, you can also choose Hikvision's retail OEM disk, the price is often slightly lower than that of Western Digital and Seagate.
[5.2] Solid State Drives
☞ It is highly recommended to run large games such as Black Myth Goku on an SSD! Otherwise, the loading speed of the HDD is very slow, which will drag down the overall running effect! SSDs designed for large games don't need to be overly demanding in terms of performance and quality, just choose a general SATA solid-state or PCIe 3.0 solid-state.
☞ With the popularization of the PCIe 5.0 platform, different brands have launched 5.0 products with different levels of positioning for the consumer market (motherboard interface support), and the conventional PCIe 3.0/4.0 or SATA solid-state that is actually on the street is cheaper, more cost-effective, and much more cost-effective. In terms of product selection, the TLC solid-state of the big brands is basically chosen at random (4.0/5.0 solid-state can be used on the 3.0 motherboard, but it runs at 3.0 speed), but QLC is generally not recommended. SSDs can also choose from foreign garbage categories and various old antique models, and you can also see all kinds of disassembled or brand-new (with the risk of clearing) enterprise-level SSDs and some products that can be used practically when they are older, and the price may be very fragrant, so you don't want to choose mainstream commercial products.
☞ Intel's 12th-14th Gen processors with B660 motherboards and above can support standard PCIe 4.0 solid-state at full speed. AMD's side is the 3000/5000 series Ryzen (except for APUs and CPUs shielded by APUs/APUs that can only support PCIe 3.0), with B550, X570 (in fact, there are a few B450s that are supported by cracking) and all 7000/8000/9000 series Ryzens can enable PCIe 4.0. The Intel H610 motherboard does not have M.2 with CPU PCIe direct connection, so it can only use the PCIe 3.0*4 interface provided by the chipset. AM5 interfaceRyzen 7000/9000 series with B650/X670/B850/X870 can even enable PCIe 5.0, and the Core Ultra 200S also supports PCIe 5.0 M.2 interface, which needs to be enabled with B860/Z890.
☞ Since the 4K random performance difference will not be very large, so don't think that NVME 3.0/4.0 or even 5.0 will be significantly faster than SATA, the advantages of NVME are mainly in the continuous transfer speed of large files (such as transferring a 10GB compressed package at a time), transfer small files, fragmented files (or products with smaller caches) You will find that everyone is at a very low speed.
☞ Whether to choose SATA interface products or M.2 solid-state products can be selected according to personal preferences and motherboard support, and it does not have to be stronger than M.2. From a price point of view, most of the cheap solid-state units are now 1GB < 0.35 yuan.
☞ The chipset determines what kind of actual features you can get, but you can't blindly rely on the chipset to buy a motherboard, and some high-end chipsets have very shrinking functions and streamlined power supply design, so it is better to choose a product with a downgrade chipset. The Intel 700 series chipset is actually very different from the 600 series, and the principle of who chooses the cheapest can be followed. Intel800 series chipset overall progress is quite obvious, like the Z890 on the market will generally provide4-5 M.2 expansion ports (direct connection 2 + chipset 3-5), USB 4 has almost become standard, from the perspective of chipset characteristics, B860 can also provide 3-4 M.2 expansion ports (direct connection 1 + chipset 3) H810 playability is also very high, and the standard PCIe 4.0 M.2 interface (direct connection 0 + chipset 1), compared with H610 has improved.
☞ Starting from the 800 series, the power supply of Intel motherboards has been changed from the form of x-phase (CPU core) + a-phase (core power supply) + b phase (controller power supply) of the 600/700 series to the form of x-phase (CPU core power supply) + a phase (core power supply) + b phase (controller power supply) + c phase (VNNAON power supply), for example, the lowest-end motherboard has been changed from 4+1+1 phase to the current 4+1+1+1 phase, so you don't think that the 7-phase power supply of H810 is very luxurious, and the actual entry, Up to one U5-225F.
☞ AMD launched the all-new B840 and B850 chipsets in January and promised that the AM5 socket will be updated until at least 2027. The new B840 is essentially the A620 and is still the vest of the old B550, which remains functionally similar, while the B850 is a facelift of the B650. Overall, there is not much difference between the 800 series and 600 series chipsets, but almost all of the X870 come standard with a USB 4 high-speed interface.
★ Q1: I have my eye on a case, can I change the case in the configuration list to my favorite?
☆ A1: Absolutely! As long as the chassis you fancy can fit these accessories, the choice of the chassis is originally different from person to person, after all, this piece represents the face of the host. It is not recommended to replace the chassis without ensuring that the water cooling can be installed normally.
★ Q2: Can I change the power supply to another one?
☆ A2: As long as the rated power is not less than the value I recommend, it can be replaced with any other brand of power supply (consumers who don't understand try to go to Jingdong to choose a high-quality power supply, you can also ask customer service)!
★ Q3: Can the i3-12100F in this configuration be upgraded to i5-12400F? Can it be upgraded to i5-14400F?
☆ A3: As long as it is a product of the same platform and the same interface, it can be changed arbitrarily. Therefore, the 12th generation i3-12100F with LGA 1700 interface can also be replaced with other 12th generation models with LGA1700 interface. However, because the i5-14400F is a 14th generation processor, although the interface is the same, the latter was launched late and needs to be supported after the motherboard BIOS update. AMD's AM4 platforms can also be replaced with processors, such as R5-4500 to R7-5700X, they are all AM4 interfaces, but the original platform using 1000/2000/3000 series Ryzen processors must upgrade the corresponding supported BIOS version before upgrading to 4000/5000 series processors.
★ Q4: Can the RTX4060 in this configuration be replaced with the RX7600?
☆ A4: As long as the power supply is sufficient, the graphics card can be changed arbitrarily, for example, if the rated power of the case power supply is 500W, then you can go to the RTX4060 or RX6600.
★ Q5: According to the configuration list you gave, what should I do if my computer fails to install and the computer goes BOOM?
☆ A5: Of course, this kind of loss is borne by the user!
★ Q6: What should I do if the tempered glass of the side-view chassis is blown up and the water-cooled radiator is leaking?
☆ A6: Please find the seller or manufacturer for a claim!
★ Q7: Most of the AMD configurations we have seen so far are paired with AMD graphics cards, is it because AMD processors are more suitable with AMD graphics cards? Can it be used with an N card? Can Intel processors work with an A-card?
☆ A7: "3A" (AMD processor + motherboard + graphics card) is simply to pursue a more extreme cost performance, because AMD processors, especially 4000/5000 series Ryzen, are quite cost-effective, and the price advantage of A card is also more obvious than that of N card, this combination can perfectly reflect the comprehensive advantages of the AMD platform. Of course, you have no problem mixing and matching, and in fact there is no such thing as a better fit.