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Missing Motherboard
I’m trying to build the ‘budget' Intel build from the Blueprints section in the January 2023 issue of your great magazine. I’ve bought and received all the ingredients, apart from the ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming 4/D5 ATX LGA1700 motherboard. The problem is, it’s on back order and has been for about a month now from retailer NewEgg.
I’m wondering if you could recommend a similarly capable DDR5 motherboard. I can go up to a Z790, but I do not want to go backward.
–Dan
Thanks for the heads up on the stock shortages—I’ve updated Sam Lewis, who puts that section together. Having looked into this myself, it’s still difficult to find an ATX LGA1700 DDR5 board for less than $200, which I assume is an important consideration in your budget build, and quite a bit more than the $156 board we recommended in the Jan issue. The only real candidate at the time of writing is the
