Motherboard for white build

[Bennehmaru]

Hi All,

It's time for me to do a full upgrade and this time I'm looking at doing a fully clean white build, I haven't been able to find many white boards on the AMD side, so feel like that's making my decision for me to go Intel.

The two boards I'm looking at are the following:

Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex
or
Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Formula

My question is which would people recommend, I know the Apex has been around a little longer and the formula is part of the 14th Gen refresh that Asus put out recently, but performance wise does the Apex still edge out the formula?

Any suggestions or help greatly appreciated.

 

[Glanza]

White boards for AMD exist

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[Tetras]

I haven't been able to find many white boards on the AMD side, so feel like that's making my decision for me to go Intel.

B760M Gaming Plus (not the ATX one) has white heatsinks and is natively 14th gen.

Other white (heatsink or PCB) boards:
MSI Edge, e.g. B650 Edge.
MSI X670E Gaming Plus.
Asus Strix -A, e.g. B650-A or X670E-A.
NZXT N7.
ASRock Steel Legend, Taichi Carrera or Pro RS.
Gigabyte Elite ICE.

performance wise does the Apex still edge out the formula?

Are you talking about overclocking the memory?

 

[jabski]

the Apex is a great board for overclocking and tweaking memory. Unless your heavily into that I would suggest save the money to use for a white GPU

 

[Bennehmaru]

the Apex is a great board for overclocking and tweaking memory. Unless your heavily into that I would suggest save the money to use for a white GPU

Going for the white OC Strix 4090 for this build so should be okay with that!

 

[rare]

If you are doing a whole new build it may be worth hanging on to see 5090/Zen5? Neither are supposedly too far away and likely to launch this year

 

[mattyfez]

Hi All,

It's time for me to do a full upgrade and this time I'm looking at doing a fully clean white build, I haven't been able to find many white boards on the AMD side, so feel like that's making my decision for me to go Intel.

The two boards I'm looking at are the following:

Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex
or
Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Formula

My question is which would people recommend, I know the Apex has been around a little longer and the formula is part of the 14th Gen refresh that Asus put out recently, but performance wise does the Apex still edge out the formula?

Any suggestions or help greatly appreciated.

I wouldn't spend that much!!

If going intel Id get this, I'm very happy with it:

Asus Prime Z790-A WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

Order Asus Prime Z790-A WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard now online and benefit from fast delivery.

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