Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "This trend NEEDS to stop with motherboards!" video.

  1. I am now working with a buddy to upgrade my aging Dell SFF that is now 10 years old, yes, a 4th gen Core i5 processor and it was supposed to be a short term replacement but 4 years later, here we are... The motherboard I am likely to go with will have everything I've been looking at, and a few that I was not looking at initially. It has WiFi, BT (for the mouse at least), 4 NVME slots, 3 are regular NVME slots, with one that is for the OS/software drive (directly lane to the CPU), has the SPDIF out and DP for the iGPU, Z790 chipset, PCIe5 for the graphics card etc, and it'll set me back 239 or there abouts. I WAS looking at a Gigabyte with almost the exact same features that was a bit more (still less than $300, the Arous? Elite ex or something like that. The board I'm looking at is an MSI Pro Z790. I decided on the MSI after hearing not so good news about Gigabyte having terrible issues with RMAing the boards and how poor they handle the issue. I felt that was a reasonable price, of $250 or so for a board. I'm sure for less features, one can get a board for less. Yes, both boards are for DDR5 (trying to future proof) for editing so no need to upgrade for a while, outside of upping the memory down the line from 32 to 64GB. Both take Sata III with 6 headers that share the lanes with the NVME's. I'd use the SATA for long term storage of video projects as I can stick spinners in there and have NVME for all projects in progress, including scratch disks.
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