How much to spend on a motherboard?

[Allptraum1989]

I want to run a Ryzen 9 5900x (or 4900x, we don't know yet)

It has to be an ASUS board because i want to easily connect my existing unsupported desk light setup which just happens to exactly fit the AURA headers.

 

Expect the CPU to draw a lot of power. It's a workstation and imma hit it with blender renders / simulations / video encoding, maybe even sometimes a bit of multiboxing gaming (like 16 WoW clients) 

 

I would really not want to spend more than $180, but i would if anything below would bottleneck the cpu. I am also thinking of switching my air cooler for a 360mm AIO (because it looks seksi af), so maybe i would even overclock it a bit. Temperature is really not a problem with my setup.

 

Oh yeah, i almost forgot. I need a lot of SATA lanes and at least two NVME headers. Native RAID support without a dedicated controller would also be nice.

 

Oh, and f*ck wifi. LAN all the way

[Mateyyy]

Ryzen 5000 will be on AM5. Assuming the 3900X's Zen 3 successor will be called 4900X, at $180 you'd be looking at the Strix B550-F.

[marmour]

3 minutes ago, Allptraum1989 said:

I want to run a Ryzen 9 5900x (or 4900x, we don't know yet)

It has to be an ASUS board because i want to easily connect my existing unsupported desk light setup which just happens to exactly fit the AURA headers.

 

Expect the CPU to draw a lot of power. It's a workstation and imma hit it with blender renders / simulations / video encoding, maybe even sometimes a bit of multiboxing gaming (like 16 WoW clients) 

 

I would really not want to spend more than $180, but i would if anything below would bottleneck the cpu. I am also thinking of switching my air cooler for a 360mm AIO (because it looks seksi af), so maybe i would even overclock it a bit. Temperature is really not a problem with my setup.

 

Oh yeah, i almost forgot. I need a lot of SATA lanes and at least two NVME headers. Native RAID support without a dedicated controller would also be nice.

You'll want to look at a high end B550 board then. Watch this video:

Would also suggest waiting and seeing what the demands are from zen 3 before you buy

[Haro]

zen 4 will be on a new socket, but zen 3 wont, for around 180 bucks and if you need an asus board, the strix f is pretty good.

[Allptraum1989]

5 minutes ago, marmour said:

You'll want to look at a high end B550 board then. Watch this video:

Would also suggest waiting and seeing what the demands are from zen 3 before you buy

Will have a look, thanks

[Allptraum1989]

3 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

zen 4 will be on a new socket, but zen 3 wont, for around 180 bucks and if you need an asus board, the strix f is pretty good.

There was a debate last week on the internet wether or not AMD would want to clear up their shitty naming scheme about havin Zen2 and Zen3 both labelled as Ryzen4000, so they would just call Zen3 Ryzen5000.

 

But i did not follow this topic much.

[Haro]

10 hours ago, Allptraum1989 said:

so they would just call Zen3 Ryzen5000.

unlikely, this would jut be more confusing but we don't nor can we know.

[Oswin]

other than the mentioned B550-F the X570/B550 Tuf Plus may also be an option if you are looking for something cheaper.

[Allptraum1989]

8 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Ryzen 5000 will be on AM5. Assuming the 3900X's Zen 3 successor will be called 4900X, at $180 you'd be looking at the Strix B550-F.

Looks like a nice board. Only thing turning me a bit down is that i have to pay for the included wifi adapter that gets turned into a shelf-dweller really quick. Lan all the way

[Haro]

10 hours ago, Allptraum1989 said:

pay for the included wifi adapter that gets turned into a shelf-dweller really quick.

there is a non wifi version for around 180 bucks..

[Mateyyy]

Just now, Allptraum1989 said:

Looks like a nice board. Only thing turning me a bit down is that i have to pay for the included wifi adapter that gets turned into a shelf-dweller really quick. Lan all the way

There's also a non-WIFI version of it, though I think they've had trouble keeping stock up or something, since I very rarely actually saw it being sold at its MSRP.

[Oswin]

2 minutes ago, Allptraum1989 said:

Looks like a nice board. Only thing turning me a bit down is that i have to pay for the included wifi adapter that gets turned into a shelf-dweller really quick. Lan all the way

here is a link for the non wi-fi option

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/JXBhP6/asus-rog-strix-b550-f-gaming-atx-am4-motherboard-rog-strix-b550-f-gaming

 

[Allptraum1989]

7 minutes ago, Oswin said:

other than the mentioned B550-F the X570/B550 Tuf Plus may also be an option if you are looking for something cheaper.

Yeah, in euroland it only costs $10 more. I mean, it is not really neccesary, but i'd gladly pay $10 more for an actively cooled chipset.

My setup does not have great airflow where the chipset sits

[Oswin]

1 minute ago, Allptraum1989 said:

Yeah, in euroland it only costs $10 more. I mean, it is not really neccesary, but i'd gladly pay $10 more for an actively cooled chipset.

My setup does not have great airflow where the chipset sits

well it would help if you mentioned your location and budget in your currency

 

[Allptraum1989]

2 minutes ago, Oswin said:

well it would help if you mentioned your location and budget in your currency

 

germoney and euro. Oh the dollar exchange goes has gone insane. Last time i checked they were relatively identical. 180€ is my budget. That's like $214

[Oswin]

12 minutes ago, Allptraum1989 said:

germoney and euro. Oh the dollar exchange goes has gone insane. Last time i checked they were relatively identical. 180€ is my budget. That's like $214

then the B550-F would likely be the best choice in your budget

here is the link:

https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/JXBhP6/asus-rog-strix-b550-f-gaming-atx-am4-motherboard-rog-strix-b550-f-gaming