MSI Meg Z790 Godlike best build

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What hardwares are best for this motherboard:
What is the maximum and best ram with rgb lights ?

What is the best combo or just single harddrive and fastest?

Wich power suply by Corsair is needed if with Gpu RTX 4090 MSI ?

I want to know this becouse i want to build a top notch computer in the soon future, best regards from me JL
 

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err you go to the store and tell them to build a most expensive machine for you :LOL:
Other than that, I'll suggest you to search under compatibility list though.
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MSI MEG Z790 GODLIKE, E-ATX - Intel 13th/12th Gen - 26+2 Phases, DDR5, PCIe 5.0, 10G LAN, Wi-Fi 6E

Featuring the latest technology, high-speed transmission, ultra-performance, and industry's first M-Vision Dashboard, the MEG Z790 GODLIKE is developed to unleash the extreme gaming potential of the Intel 13th gen processors.
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CPU is easy, 13900KS is prob the "best" you can get (cherry pick 13900K with a little frequency boost by default)
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MEG Ai1300P PCIE5 | Power Supply | Overflow With Power

The MEG Ai1300P PCIE5 power supply is software supported and designed to ready for NVIDIA® GeForce RTX® 40 Series graphics cards thanks to its ATX 3.0 and PCIe 5.0.
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To me, the GODLIKE is not really the best board model, just the most expensive one. The buyers are seen as "whales" (no offense, see the explanation in the link). Normally i only say something when people select a board that's too low-end for a certain CPU choice, but with the GODLIKEs, it seems that the more MSI sell of those, the more they feel encouraged to set bigger and bigger profit margins with each new platform. Because no matter how much they raise the prices for these boards, they seem to get the amount of sales they want, which drives up the board prices in general. I personally see the ACE / UNIFY / UNIFY-X as the best high-end models from MSI, but in the end, it's your choice.

Similarly for the -KS CPUs, they are not the best all-around CPU if you take cost or efficiency into consideration. That's probably why plutomate said "best" in quotation marks. The -KS is a 13900K that was binned for slightly higher peak turbo clocks (+200 MHz). So it is marginally the best performance-wise, if you are willing to spend 20-25% more for 3.5% higher peak turbo clocks and a difference you won't really notice. Plus your cooling has to be absolutely top-notch, maybe a custom loop, or at least a high-end AIO.

> What is the maximum and best ram with rgb lights ?

You mean the maximum amount, or the maximum speed? Keep in mind that with a very challenging XMP profile (getting close or into the DDR5-7000-range), it can require manual adjustments to work in a stable manner. Furthermore, DDR5 doesn't like if you populate all four slots, then the maximum DDR5 speed is much lower than with two modules. So for the maximum amount where you can still have a high speed, i would choose 2x 32 GB.

> What is the best combo or just single harddrive and fastest?

There are a couple contenders, but i'd personally choose the Samsung 990 PRO (make sure to install the firmware update via Samsung Magician, if available).

> Wich power suply by Corsair is needed if with Gpu RTX 4090 MSI ?

If it's restricted to a Corsair, the HX1200 would be a fine choice. Probably the best PSU they ever made is the AX1600i, but it's highly expensive and even overkill for this system. Other manufacturers are coming out with PSU models supporting ATX 3.0 and PCIe 5.0, such as the MSI PSU linked before, or be quiet!'s new Dark Power 13 1000W. I don't see one like that from Corsair yet, however, they offer a native ATX12HPWR cable seperately if you want to avoid using adapters from several PCIe 8-pin power cables.
 
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citay said:
To me, the GODLIKE to me is not really the best board model, just the most expensive one. The buyers are seen as "whales" (no offense, see the explanation in the link). Normally i only say something when people select a board that's too low-end for a certain CPU choice, but with the GODLIKEs, it seems that the more MSI sell of those, the more they feel encouraged to set bigger and bigger profit margins with each new platform. Because no matter how much they raise the prices for these boards, they seem to get the amount of sales they want, which drives up the board prices in general. I personally see the ACE / UNIFY / UNIFY-X as the best high-end models from MSI, but in the end, it's your choice.
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Thanks for your very thought thrue reply.
ace or unity do one of thous got led display overheating notification and other funktions in led display like godlike has ? If so do any of them have support also for ddr5 ram and sutch good CPU like intel 13th gen 13900ks ?
and one more question, how do i search for the ram do i Wright DDR5 7000 32gb rgb or what ? (I am using pricerunner)
 
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The Z790 ACE has everything you want from a very high-end board. It can easily handle even the 13900KS. It also has a two-digit segment display for error codes and CPU temperature onboard. If by display you mean an LCD screen, such screens have been disappointing. It's better to use a proper monitoring software like HWinfo64 Sensors.
Just make sure the case is big enough, the ACE is almost as huge as the GODLIKE (E-ATX size, wider than ATX).

About the RAM, as i said, four modules simply doesn't run very well in a lot of cases (further reading here), so you want to decide on a kit of two modules. So 2x 32 GB.

As far as actual DDR5 kits, if you want a high-end 64GB kit without manually messing around much in the BIOS, i'd probably get something like G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6000, CL32-38-38-96 (kit model names: F5-6000J3238G32GX2-TZ5RS or F5-6000J3238G32GX2-TZ5RK ). There are no kits with 2x 32GB going near DDR5-7000, because for the high-capacity 32 GB modules it's much harder to reach such speeds. But the difference from DDR5-6000 to -7000 is not as big as one might think. So DDR5-6000 with tight timings, you already get all the DDR5 benefits. Not that you really need 64 GB of RAM for much. So you could also decide on 2x 16 GB of an even faster kit.
 
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As someone who has a few of the previous Godlike boards.....I personally haven't found them very useful overall. Pretty much just paying a ton of extra money for things you're not generally going to use or see or care about while using the PC.

The Z790 Ace is a great alternative option. I'm probably going to go with a Z790 Carbon soon myself......depending on how much I can spend on a new system.
 
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citay said:
As far as actual DDR5 kits, if you want a high-end 64GB kit without manually messing around much in the BIOS, i'd probably get something like G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6000, CL32-38-38-96 (kit model names: F5-6000J3238G32GX2-TZ5RS or F5-6000J3238G32GX2-TZ5RK ). There are no kits with 2x 32GB going near DDR5-7000, because for the high-capacity 32 GB modules it's much harder to reach such speeds. But the difference from DDR5-6000 to -7000 is not as big as one might think. So DDR5-6000 with tight timings, you already get all the DDR5 benefits. Not that you really need 64 GB of RAM for much. So you could also decide on 2x 16 GB of an even faster kit.
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i will try to find one of them and hope it works with godlike motherboard
 
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I was comparing the Ace to the Godlike and honestly i couldn't justify the price. I need the ACE because I have an XDR pro display so I want a thunderbolt display port.
I went for the ACE and it's handling a 13900K OC to 6GHz very well.

As for RAMs I bought this kit because i wanted the fastest 64GB and there's no 64GB kit faster than 6400MHz and it was quite expensive 2 months ago around 600 USD excl. tax.


Cheers
 
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Side note, recently there are massive problems with Samsung 990 Pro suddenly losing lot % of its health and Samsung has't commented on the problem yet :D Keep an eye on that. I am running bunch of Samsung NVMe drives that I got as long as 5 years ago and still working fine, so it's likely that just this top model is flawed.
I'd also swing away from Godlike board unless you really want all the bells and whistles which you are unlikely to use anyway, and you don't care about the price. It's a kind of product customers should hang on a wall rather than use it. For the price it should come with a monoblock.
PSU opinions differ, but big players make amazing quality power supplies. Can't be wrong with Corsair and Seasonic ;)
 
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Side note, recently there are massive problems with Samsung 990 Pro suddenly losing lot % of its health and Samsung has't commented on the problem yet :D Keep an eye on that. I am running bunch of Samsung NVMe drives that I got as long as 5 years ago and still working fine, so it's likely that just this top model is flawed.
I'd also swing away from Godlike board unless you really want all the bells and whistles which you are unlikely to use anyway, and you don't care about the price. It's a kind of product customers should hang on a wall rather than use it. For the price it should come with a monoblock.
PSU opinions differ, but big players make amazing quality power supplies. Can't be wrong with Corsair and Seasonic ;)
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I confirm that, I opened a ticket with MSI 2 weeks ago regarding my SSD which isn't performing as expected and MSI acknowledged the issue. During their test, they also experienced slowdowns and fluctuating sequential write speed.

Not sure how to proceed from there.
 
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why in the name of GOD would you buy this board in first place???? however, your money feel free to do whatever you like yeah just take the most expensive components and you can't go wrong ...if you shop online put PRICE HIGH to LOW and just take the first most expensive thing that appears.
 
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I have a 990 Pro sitting here unopened, waiting for what comes next. Usually things like this will be fixed in a firmware update that you can apply via Samsung Magician.
But that might take a few weeks at least.
 
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