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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Well, I ordered the wrong motherboard and just had to refuse the Newegg.com order. The ASUS Prime Z590-a supports Thunderbolt 4 but the add-on card is $165 dollars and there's no backwards compatibility just yet.

I was forced to order another i9-10850k, because they wouldn't allow me to keep the CPU - I had to return everything. Now, it comes down to the ASUS ProArt Z490-Creator or the Gigabyte Z590 Vision D. The ASUS is nearly $100 dollars less but it would allow me to upgrade the CPU down the line. But wow, $428 dollars after tax and shipping for a motherboard is a lot of dough.

Decisions, decisions.

Every day wishing you’d have ordered the components you wanted is a bad day, in my experience.