Asus Crosshair VII Hero for Ryzen 3900x?

[David Os]

SO i have 2 questions guys!

 

I am considering to buy a Crosshair VII Hero (WIFI) for my Ryzen 3900x, which i want to use among Stock and make overclock.

But i dont know if i will have problems with that Board, i already know theres a BIOS update needed, any comments against my choice? Other consideration is the Asus x-570e gaming but is so expensive and im not needing the PCIE 4.0 or the WIFI 6 soo... pls help

 

In the other hand, im planning on connecting the following: 1x m.2 NVME Samsung EVO plus 970, 1x m.2 Western Digital Blue (SATA not NVME!!)... will i have problems if i attempt to connect an extra 2TB ssd for storage in the standard SATA ports obviously? is SSD storage a safe choice for Photography storage or should i consider HDD instead? i make a living on the photo bussiness so i need to know this.

 

Thanks for your help beforehand!

 

My Current system:

 

Ryzen 9 3900x

Samsung 970 EVO plus & WD Blue 500gb m.2 (SATA not NVME!)

GTX 970 (a friend of mine send this as a gift while i upgrade to a better GPU so is excellent and free)

16gb RAM Kit 3200 Mhz CL18 Hyper X Fury Black

Noctua NHD15s

Seasonic Platinum Plus 650w

Fractal Design Meshify C

3 extra Noctua fans for cooling

 

[Zando_]

I wouldn't go for the WD Blue drive unless you already bought it, you can get something like a Sabrent Rocket for barely more and it's much faster. 

As for the board, I don't have any arguments against it. I used to run one with a 2700X, it's a gorgeous board and an amazing performer. VRMs were massive overkill for the 2000 series, should handle a 3900X ez. 

For photo storage, use multiple HDDs. Slap a couple big capacity lads in RAID (I believe RAID 1 is the one that duplicates across both drives), and then do regular backups to a NAS or external hard drive (never leave an external hard drive hooked up to your PC though, if something were to break the PC it could take that drive with it too, always unplug it once you back up). If you're super paranoid like my uncle is (he shoots a lot of video), you copy your projects onto two more drives and keep one offsite and give the other to a friend for them to keep too, lol.  

[Jurrunio]

52 minutes ago, David Os said:

any comments against my choice?

Not really, apart from other X470 flagships like the Asrock Taichi, MSI M7 and Gigabyte Gaming 7.

 

52 minutes ago, David Os said:

will i have problems if i attempt to connect an extra 2TB ssd for storage in the standard SATA ports obviously?

That's fine, depending on the board running M.2 SATA SSD can disable 2 SATA ports, but X470 boards have 6 or 8 SATA ports so that should be ok. Or you could use M.2 slots that dont disable SATA ports, you'll need to check the motherboard manual

 

54 minutes ago, David Os said:

is SSD storage a safe choice for Photography storage or should i consider HDD instead?

SSD is good for short and mid term storage. Long term storage should still be HDD based, since when SSD dies all info cant be recovered, but HDDs can usually be recovered. Of course it's best to just keep backups.