Need help choosing AM4 motherboard!

[mgcemir]

Hey guys,

 

I am new here and I need help chossing motherboard.

 

Let me start with my current spec which will stright up go into my future planned uprgades.

 

MSI 450 mortar max (in nzxt 510i)

Ryzen 5 3600 (OCed to 4.2 all cores) - plan to go for 5800x or someting until i see reviews and prices

EVGA CLC 280

Corsair vengeance pro 3600 16gb (OCed to 4000) - prolly go for extra 8gb pair in time

aaand here we come to the current problem problem:

1 x Samsung 970 pro pcie 3  nvme 1tb + 1 kingston kc2000 1tb 

 

now the samsung one is in the first slot and it workes properly at 3500/3500, but the kingston one goes only 1500/1500 (cause of lanes on mortar max, i cant even do crossfire (with my rx580 - placeholder card untl nvda 30xx or the new navi ) with secont nvme populated)

 

so i need a motherboard that will:

 

- support future 12 core ryzen 5000 - 5800x or similar (and have some oc potential since evga clc gives great results) 

- have pcie gen 4 for future nvme upgrade + use my current nvmes to full potential (doesnt have any lane bottlenecks), so 3 nvme slots in total 

 

now, since i am not a pro pc builder etc, please pardon my mistakes or lack of knowledge, but i would need a recomendation on motherboard (middle range segment since i dont have more then 350-400 dollars max, was looking at budget x570, or maybe i need to wait for something that will come out that i hvae no idea about)

 

So, cheers in advance

 

 

 

 

[SupaKomputa]

Your motherboard may support the upcoming 5000 cpu, this is not confirmed yet, AMD stated that "some" B450 will support 5000. It depends on the motherboard maker to implement this, better stay tune next week for the announcement.

If you wanna be safe, any X570 will support 5000.

All B450 and X570 supports pcie 4.0. nothing to worry about.

[mgcemir]

the point is i need a new motherboard that will fully use my existing nvmes and have an extra slot for one more pcie gen 4, while being good for 12 core ryzen 5000 mini oc

[SupaKomputa]

32 minutes ago, mgcemir said:

now the samsung one is in the first slot and it workes properly at 3500/3500, but the kingston one goes only 1500/1500 (cause of lanes on mortar max, i cant even do crossfire (with my rx580 - placeholder card untl nvda 30xx or the new navi ) with secont nvme populated)

- the kingston one maybe max out a 1500, the fist m.2 will be the same speed as the other one (pcie x4), the only difference is the second one getting its lane from the chipset.

- Crossfire cannot work with AMD-NVDIA combo. you better read more articles about this. No use having 2 GPU, just drawing unnecessary power.

 

9 minutes ago, mgcemir said:

the point is i need a new motherboard that will fully use my existing nvmes and have an extra slot for one more pcie gen 4, while being good for 12 core ryzen 5000 mini oc

So you need 3 m.2 slots in a Mini-ITX, i haven's seen any motherboard which have 3 m.2. in micro / mini ITX.

 

Please quote my answer.

[mgcemir]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

- the kingston one maybe max out a 1500, the fist m.2 will be the same speed as the other one (pcie x4), the only difference is the second one getting its lane from the chipset.

- Crossfire cannot work with AMD-NVDIA combo. you better read more articles about this. No use having 2 GPU, just drawing unnecessary power.

 

So you need 3 m.2 slots in a Mini-ITX, i haven's seen any motherboard which have 3 m.2. in micro / mini ITX.

 

Please quote my answer.

in a ATX (nzxt 510i) 

[Chris Pratt]

Right now, that's X570. It's guaranteed to support basically anything that uses AM4 socket, and is the only chipset with PCIe 4.0 on both the CPU and chipset lanes. 600 series boards may debut with the new CPUs, but those obviously aren't available yet.

[SupaKomputa]

1 minute ago, mgcemir said:

in a ATX (nzxt 510i) 

Any X570 will do.