Seems to be a good deal for itx builds, as it is essentially a 7950x + motherboard in a nice form factor
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7950x not 5950x
Except a lot lower tdp - so less speed but less power usage
So more 5950x level of performance, at lower wattage
cinebench r23
5950x 29000
7945hx 36000
7950x 38000
much closer to 7950x than 5950x
Even has usb4 on it so good!!
People on Reddit advising people to stay away from the mobo. Don't know what this is about but have a look.
Stay away from the BD790i. The first batch are all defective. They don't hold BIOS settings, and everyone I have encountered has this problem (about 10 people). The thermals are not comparable to the AR900i (I have the BD770i, AR900i, and the BD790 til I RMA that). The 13900HX responds well clocks-wise, where the 7945HX seems to want to stay at 5.5GHz on a bunch of cores at all costs. So it gets warm. That and the machining on the cooler of the first batch of BD790is hasn't been great. Even with a PTM7950 re-paste, it's not enough to make up the deficit. The BD770i and AR900i both showed improvement after re-paste. If you want the BD790i at all costs, then at least wait until July. That it when I was told by Minisforum that the remedied batch would begin to ship. That an even people who got their flawed boards later have better machining on the cooler. tl;dr - Skip the BD790i until July.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/1cqrpbe/gaming_cpu_7…
So pretty much u just need ram and storage and a case for it
This board at least does something that's smart for an ITX board. It uses SO-DIMMs. You can fit more functionality on a board by not using up board area with desktop DIMMs.
In fact I'm stuffed if I know why the industry didn't go over to SO-DIMMs completely with DDR5. You can fit as much RAM on two SO-DIMMs as most people want, and you can fit more RAM in 4 vertical slots for SO-DIMMs than CPUs can address, and still only use up as much space as two DIMM slots.
The consumer market moved towards making RAM look flash with RGB and fancy paint jobs.Need big sticks to fit more lights.
Not sure if it's a manufacturer choice or form factor but it's usually slower with latency timings
Fastest I found was cl38 but often slower
Same was with ddr4 sodimms
equal to 5950x?