NightRaven49
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starfield can forget about high fps at 1440p, 4090 cannot even guarantee 120fps at native 1080p. personally id suggest a 13700k + 4080 combo at the minimum, though u will likely need dlss + fg to hit those high framerates in games that support those technologies.
ur games are not difficult to run, ur 3060 will do just fine. the parts deepblue quoted from the enthusiast reco are good enough to address the poor cpu performance.
if ur gonna disable e cores, then i dont see why u should spend $200 more on something ur gonna disable anyway. utilisation is not the end of the story, for eg a 100% utilisation on a 12400 will not be a 100% utilisation on a 12600k with e cores disabled (both 6p, but the 12600k clocks at least 10% higher). power consumption is the main thing u want to focus on.
vrm (voltage regulator module) is simply the power delivery to the cpu. in order to do its job of keeping voltage to the cpu stable, it switches itself on and off very quickly, but this switching generates heat. the more power the cpu demands, the more heat is generated by the vrm. the temperature of the vrm needs to be within a safe limit to avoid damage, otherwise the motherboard will throttle the cpu (ie reduce performance) to reduce the power consumption and temperature. more premium boards like z790s usually employ more robust vrms which operate at a lower temperature, allowing the cpu to maintain max performance longer or even indefinitely.
for games, i really dont think u should be worried too much by this, since ive not heard of any game pulling over 200w sustained on a 14900k, which is quite a bit less than the 12900k power consumption i mentioned for the b760 tuf (which i also mentioned that that would only be in an all core workload). even if u do all core workloads, u will be served well by any z790 board (which u should get if ur getting a k cpu).
most reviewers dont test motherboard performance anymore because provided the same parts (cpu, ram, storage etc), most of them give effectively the same performance.
imo gpu bottleneck should be what ur aiming for, since it is the single most expensive part in ur system and is also the easiest to upgrade. i dont see the point of replacing it if it is still enough for ur games. its not possible to make a build that is perfectly balanced for every scenario anyway.
h210i is mini itx, so u have to opt for a mitx board (the suggested board is matx).
cl refers to cas latency, which in turn refers to the number of clock cycles required for a memory module to return data after it receives a command to retrieve data. this can be used in conjunction with the data transfer rate (the familiar but ultimately misleading mhz) to calculate basic memory latency, which is crucial for ryzen cpus, so a higher mhz is not always better.
ddr stands for double data rate, so this means the actual mhz of the ram is half that of the advertised data transfer rate. for 6000mt/s (usually labelled 6000mhz) ram, the true frequency is 3000mhz. so 1 clock cycle takes 1/3000 of a second. then u multiply with the cl number to get the latency: for cl30, it is 1/100 of a second (10ns), for cl32, it is 10.667ns, for cl34, it is 11.333ns. the lower the latency the better, so a 5600c28 kit for eg can outperform a 6000c36 kit. ryzen x3d cpus are less affected by memory latency though, along with most intel cpus.
i would say the 7500f is enough, it offers 80% of the 7800x3ds performance at 1080p, and even more at higher resolutions, for less than half the price.
