ASUS or Gigabyte, Z490 or Z590, 10850 or 119900K for new build?

I appreciate your comments and clarification, Vanguard. Always. You have been most helpful Unfortunately, everything is always more expensive here in Canada than in the US. Take Gasoline for example....Today, the average cost of Regular Unleaded gasoline across the major stations (such as Petro Canada, Shell and ESSO though there are other smaller ones like Husky or Pioneer etc) the average cost is 1.30 per Litre. The US pays 3.38 per gallon (and there are 3.8 litres in a gallon) which works out to roughly 90 cents per litre comparatively. So up here in Canada....especially in Ontario, we pay 4x higher cost for our gasoline than pretty much anywhere in the US. That's mostly because although we can mine our own oil, we send to to the US to be refined (why I don't know because we have at least two huge refineries in Ontario). But we send to to places like Texas and Pennsylvania to be refined.....Then they ship our now-refined oil back to us at 5x the cost.

But everything is that way. Everything.

I'm not sure about the physical size in terms of square footage--and to be honest I forget the numbers...It's somewhere in the neighbourhood of 100,000,000 Litres per day in terms of volume ....But anyways, I know we have one of the largest oil rigs in the world of the coast of Newfound Land.  And then we have the Oil Sands out west.  I've never understood why we rely on the Middle East to supply our oil and the US to refine it for us....We can do both jobs ourselves.  Do what Obama was doing-- keep everything "in house".

Anyways, enough Geo-Politics.  This is a Gaming Forum after all!

My trusty local store gives this exact same measurement, 322mm x 137mm x 27mm, so I would imagine it's pretty accurate. I see no reason for it not to fit.

What a way to spend a Saturday.

Oh I agree about performance over looks......But I think that these new 3000 chips are going to be blazing fast.  (can you please remove the rainbow swirly thingy....it really makes me very dizzy)

Although I have been running it for just over 3 days (since Thursday July 8th at about 12 Noon ET).....I have had one BSOD but WHO CRASHED immediately identified this offending party, and it was due to the Gigabyte App Centre, which even Windows verified. So I immediately uninstalled it and cleaned the Registry using REVO Uninstaller 4.4.2 PRO, then rebooted....and since then my new PC has been working like a DREAM Machine! So much faster, more stable and more efficient than my previous build.....Though oddly, the technician at Canada COmputers told me that my Phoenix SLI motherboard (was at the time of purchase) a much higher grade of motherboard than the Z490 or even Z 590 Aorus Master motherboards. I find that hard to believe because they were exactly equal in price points when each unit was new. And my Z490 Master has features that not even the Phoenix SLI does....like 3 M.2 slots, not just one.

Nevertheless, regardless of where it ranks....I am extremely pleased with my choice of build, even more so, I think, than if I opted to go for the Z590 and the 11 series, in spite of the faster RAM support and larger power delivery system (true 18 phase on the Z590, where as the Z490 has 14....But even that is massive overkill and efficiency).

All things considered, I'm extremely pleased and happy with my new system....and I am also pleased to say that my old X99 system is still functional as the weird *flashy* behaviours were solved with a GPU Driver hot fix. I think though, there was something wrong with Windows because applications would hang and then not even register within Task Manager. Nevertheless....since it is NOT a harwware issue, I am optomistic that I will be able to sell it in the future.

I think I finally found the culprit that has been the bane of my very existence since May 3rd and the root cause of all my problems! My soon to be 2 year old (newer) Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse (which I bought at the same time as my Razer Black Widow keyboard) on or about August 27th 2019....just before my return to work in September. I recall that date because I tore up the receipt not long ago...and remember thinking *Oh, it's been that long already that I have had my Razer keyboard? Whoa...time flies.*

But this afternoon about 2 hours ago....I noticed that the speed and the frequency with which my desktop pages *flashes* was all too similar to the speed/sensitvity setting, movement and button clicking of my G502 HERO. I tried 5 pages for 5 minutes each using every setting I could change...and they all produced the same (flashing) results. Then I swapped out for my old original G5 Mouse from 2005......and some 2 hours later.....Absolutely ZERO issues of any kind. GONE. G O N E....gone. I'm bummed that a nearly 200 dollar Gaming Mouse only lasted 2 years, because I really liked it. It was great performing and very comfortable.

You forgot chocolate.