I need to upgrade my motherboard to something that supports Gen 9 Intel CPUs. And if possible, get Thunderbolt input in addition.
Hard to sift through the thousands of options out there and all the gaming boards. I am thinking of Core i7-9700 or so. Not crazy overclocking and such.
My Audio Precision software is a dog and uses only two threads and only one dominates CPU wise. So aiming to get the best single core performance.
Can spend up to $250 for the motherboard but can't justify more than that.
Z390 chip-set seems to be the favorite here?
May also go with core i5 to get built-in graphics to see if it works better driving AVRs using HDMI. My current nvidia HDMI audio support is quite spotty.
Ultimate goal is to have a quiet PC as my current i5 system is.
Appreciate any leads.
And oh, seems like we don't have a computer section. Should we have one?