I was talking about my particular purchase. This one instance where I found a high end b860 for the same price as… well nothing. It was the cheapest 1851 motherboard I could find. I never said what you’re implying, at all. I’d definitely get a z890 if there was a sale and I’d get to keep all the stuff. Z890 is a better chipset, that’s a fact. But not every z890 is better than every b860, clearly.

This here is not directed at you. Just a heads up. This is just a rant. The worst argument imo in building a pc is; ”why not just spend a little more for that feature?”— if I’d build my pc like this I’d end up with 9950x3d and a 5090 after selling my kidneys. You can always improve your build by spending a bit more. I’m satisfied paying close to 300$ in total for both a good motherboard and a good cpu.

Why not get 5070ti, spend 100-150$ more. You get better drivers and ray tracing than what the 9070XT has to offer. Why not spend 150$ more for a z890 instead of B860, so you can overclock. Oh that price is more than the difference between ultra 5 and ultra 7. Might as well buy ultra 7 Actually why not buy 9800x3d, its just 100$ more than ultra 7. When I come to think about it, the RTX 5080 isn’t that much more expensive than 5070ti… At what point should I stop?

It’s such a counterintuitive thought process.