X570 Motherboard that meets these criteria

[Anomnomnomaly]

Been trying to figure out which boards meet my criteria... but info can be a little thin on the ground. Specifically around the M.2 & PCI-E Lanes available for SATA sockets

 

My current B450 Gigabyte Aorus Pro has 6 SATA sockets and 2x M.2 sockets... However, every time you use one of the M.2 sockets it disables 2 of the SATA sockets.

 

This is something that was buried away in the manual and not made available to the buyer on the website (No idea if that has changed since I bought mine).. So understandably I felt ripped off a little as I have 5 SATA drives and an NVME. Which means I've never been able to plug in my BDrom... Yeah, I still need a cd/dvd/bd drive and I'm not giving that up anytime soon nor will I be tricked into buying an external one because manufacturers leave out critical info.

 

Then there's the BIOS issue with gigabyte boards... specifically the dual bios ones that often fail and revert to the other one for no reason at all... Something that GN has commented on a few times.

 

So for me... I'm gonna be very, very wary of even considering Gigabyte again... and MSI were using crappy VRM's on their B450 boards... no idea if that's the case across their range.

 

Then there's the budget... I need full ATX, either 6 SATA that will not be disabled if ALL of the M.2 slots are populated... or a lot more SATA sockets to compensate. I'd much rather be able to add a larger capacity SATA M.2 later on that pull a 1TB SSD and replace with a larger one. Because my 2x 3TB HDD are for backup and important file duplication and those older games that I don't often play or don't require  one of the 2x 1TB SSD's.

 

So given that the cost of X570 boards has increased over the previous X470 ones... My budget in UK £££'s is sub 200... My current build has already cost me over £1100 (not including GPU, KB, Monitors) and with a new MB/CPU/GPU now being planned... I'm looking at a further £1000 cost, as I'm currently planning on the 5700XT and R9 3900X.. Because going from a 2600X to a 3800X doesn't seem like a big enough boost in performance.

 

My current  B450/2600X/32GB DDR4 3200 will then be moved into my mediaserver as that's still on Windows 7 Pro and an old ASUS M5  AM3+ motherboard and FX CPU. As W7 is EOL in Jan... I'd like to upgrade that before then and I know I could just upgrade the OS to W10 but I scaled back my gaming build originally because of R3xxx series and Navi cards. I needed something new right away but also wanted to wait for better stuff... other wise I'd have just gone X470 2800X.

 

But at least I managed to get 64GB DDR4 3200 (Corsair Vengeance) for the price of 32GB due to a vendor screw up. But this B450 board simply will not run it at 3200mhz and I have to scale it back to 3066mhz for stability... Hopefully on the X570 platform I may even be able to squeeze a little extra out of it above the rated speed.

 

 

Suggestions on a postcard too....... or just post them here.

Cheers

[Koxicain]

1 hour ago, Anomnomnomaly said:

Suggestions on a postcard too....... or just post them here.

Cheers

Sorry to say this but this is prolly the best board which is X570 supports everything you will need but is 210 pounds.

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-x570-aorus-elite-amd-x570-am4-ddr4-pcie-40-dual-m2-2-way-crossfire-intel-gbe-usb-32-gen2-a
It doesnt have dual bios so you dont have to deal with that. As far as i could see all 6 sata ports + 2 M2 would work perfectly fine together.

[Anomnomnomaly]

2 hours ago, Koxicain said:

Sorry to say this but this is prolly the best board which is X570 supports everything you will need but is 210 pounds.

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-x570-aorus-elite-amd-x570-am4-ddr4-pcie-40-dual-m2-2-way-crossfire-intel-gbe-usb-32-gen2-a
It doesnt have dual bios so you dont have to deal with that. As far as i could see all 6 sata ports + 2 M2 would work perfectly fine together.

£210 is in the ballpark... It's just that I've been seeing X570 boards up to £700+  and I wanted to ensure that suggestions where within my price range... If I can find a good deal on the card of CPU then it leaves a little more wiggle room. But I really didn't want this upgrade to cost more than £1000 considering the £1100 already spent.

 

Ryzen 9 3900X  £479.99

RX5700XT £379.99

 

So even at £210 for the MB I'm still gone be £70 over budget