Tomahawk x570 overkill?

[Borgus Bohr]

If I buy a 5900x with a x570 Tomahawk and not planning to OC, is it overkill? The CPU will be often rendering 3D images with all 12 cores running for long periods of time. Will it still run cool and stable with B550?.. or x570 is preferable im my case scenario? I used to be on Intel mobos, I'm kinda confused with the B550 and X570.

 

Thanks

[WhitetailAni]

B550 is X570 without SLI support (which is pretty much dead) and one or two other things.

Unless you need the features of that particular board or chipset, B550 should be fine.

[Borgus Bohr]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

B550 is X570 without SLI support (which is pretty much dead) and one or two other things.

Unless you need the features of that particular board or chipset, B550 should be fine.

Thanks very much!

[Jurrunio]

just take 3900x numbers, AMD follows the same power limits on Zen 3 as Zen 2 CPUs they replace. B550 is totally fine as long as the board itself carries everything you want (ilke some number of USB 3 ports, RGB header and so on). All you dont get is chipset based PCIe 4.0 and half the chipset bandwidth as a result.

[Borgus Bohr]

9 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

just take 3900x numbers, AMD follows the same power limits on Zen 3 as Zen 2 CPUs they replace. B550 is totally fine as long as the board itself carries everything you want (ilke some number of USB 3 ports, RGB header and so on). All you dont get is chipset based PCIe 4.0 and half the chipset bandwidth as a result.

PCIe 4.0 will probably be usefull to me in a few years... Thanks for your help

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Borgus Bohr said:

PCIe 4.0 will probably be usefull to me in a few years... Thanks for your help

there still is PCIe 4 for the top PCIe x16 lot and M.2 slot on B550, just not the rest unless you get the really expensive ones that directly compete with X570 in price..

[SupaKomputa]

8 minutes ago, Borgus Bohr said:

PCIe 4.0 will probably be usefull to me in a few years... Thanks for your help

You'll get at least 1 PCIe 4 m.2 slot with B550. I think it's enough for the boot drive.

For GPU may need 1 more generation to really need PCIe 4 x16 bandwidth.

[Borgus Bohr]

5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

there still is PCIe 4 for the top PCIe x16 lot and M.2 slot on B550, just not the rest unless you get the really expensive ones that directly compete with X570 in price..

Ah ok, I understand now. I will probably be fine with B550 then. I will not put more than one GPU and maybe two nvme m.2 ssds. 

[Borgus Bohr]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

there still is PCIe 4 for the top PCIe x16 lot and M.2 slot on B550, just not the rest unless you get the really expensive ones that directly compete with X570 in price..

Do you think a B550 Tomahawks will be ready for Ryzen 5000 or will it need a bios update?

[TheDankKoosh]

1 hour ago, Borgus Bohr said:

If I buy a 5900x with a x570 Tomahawk and not planning to OC, is it overkill? The CPU will be often rendering 3D images with all 12 cores running for long periods of time. Will it still run cool and stable with B550?.. or x570 is preferable im my case scenario? I used to be on Intel mobos, I'm kinda confused with the B550 and X570.

 

Thanks

Asus X570 TUF and X570 Aorus Elite are perfectly capable of handling a 5900x while being cheaper and having any feature that you could really want.

1 hour ago, ragnarok0273 said:

B550 is X570 without SLI support (which is pretty much dead) and one or two other things.

Unless you need the features of that particular board or chipset, B550 should be fine.

You do lose PCIE lanes on B550, so if you wanted more than 1 NVME drive, you'd not be getting gen 4 speeds, and they'd be going slower from the chipset to the cpu.

[WhitetailAni]

This is why I like older(ish) computers.

You put the thing in the thing, search through the depths of the Internet to find the right driver for Windows 98/XP, put it in a CD, put the CD in the CD drive, install the driver, restart your system, and pray to the RNG gods that it works.

89% chance.

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Borgus Bohr said:

Do you think a B550 Tomahawks will be ready for Ryzen 5000 or will it need a bios update?

Will need BIOS update, many boards offer BIOS flashback tho so it can updated without any CPU. Just power the board with the ATX 24pin and a USB stick with BIOS file inside

[Borgus Bohr]

8 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Will need BIOS update, many boards offer BIOS flashback tho so it can updated without any CPU. Just power the board with the ATX 24pin and a USB stick with BIOS file inside

many thanks