I’m upgrading to Alder Lake in a few weeks, moving away from Gigabyte due to past BIOS issues. *The Strix DDR4 board is out because of my Noctua cooler. I’m down to either the TUF GAMING DDR4, MSI Tomahawk or Edge WiFi. They are all within $10-$30 of each other.
Onboard sound and RGB don’t matter. *For sound, I’m using an AE-5 Plus. The ports on the back will suffice my needs.
*Really only differences I see are VRMs (14 at 80a; 16 at 70a and 16 at 75a, respectively), BIOS features/layout and 8+4 vs 8+8 power connectors.
I plan on attempting to mildly overclock once things are up and stable. *Seems like any of the boards should satisfy this contingent on a good chip and cooling. **What I can’t seem to find the answer to is does the TUFboard have the AI overclock or is that limited to Strix models? *
Anything I’m missing or other thoughts?**
Thanks
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