Upgrade Questions?

[Defiantone07]

I am thinking it is time to upgrade looking at Zen 3, Currently have 6850k with a X99 MSI pro carbon gaming was wondering what motherboard to go with on a 5800x ? 

[Orange1]

1 minute ago, Defiantone07 said:

I am thinking it is time to upgrade looking at Zen 3, Currently have 6850k with a X99 MSI pro carbon gaming was wondering what motherboard to go with on a 5800x ? 

Depends on what you do with the pc and what features you want.

[BTGbullseye]

3 hours ago, Defiantone07 said:

I am thinking it is time to upgrade looking at Zen 3, Currently have 6850k with a X99 MSI pro carbon gaming was wondering what motherboard to go with on a 5800x ? 

Unless you plan on competitive overclocking competitions, any B550 or X570 motherboard will work the same as any other with the 5800X. You just have to decide what form factor you want, how many of each kind of USB you want, if you want wifi included, if you want faster than 1Gbps networking, and how many NVMe drives you want to have.

[Defiantone07]

On 11/8/2020 at 12:20 AM, Orange1 said:

Depends on what you do with the pc and what features you want.

I mostly game on it. 1440p right now want it on ultra also want 4K one day but I know thats on the GPU

[Defiantone07]

On 11/8/2020 at 3:55 AM, BTGbullseye said:

Unless you plan on competitive overclocking competitions, any B550 or X570 motherboard will work the same as any other with the 5800X. You just have to decide what form factor you want, how many of each kind of USB you want, if you want wifi included, if you want faster than 1Gbps networking, and how many NVMe drives you want to have.

ATX form factor because I am a full tower guy. USBs the more the merrier but I only use about 4 on the back and 2 on the front panel. I do prefer wifi because I am not near my router and 2 NVME2 drives should suffice. What are you thinking?

[BTGbullseye]

1 hour ago, Defiantone07 said:

ATX form factor because I am a full tower guy. USBs the more the merrier but I only use about 4 on the back and 2 on the front panel. I do prefer wifi because I am not near my router and 2 NVME2 drives should suffice. What are you thinking?

Well, every 500-series motherboard that isn't an ultra-budget model will fit your needs then.

 

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-b550-phantom-gaming-4-ac/p/N82E16813157936

 

That is the lowest price 500-series full-ATX motherboard with wifi and dual NVMe slots. (one is at PCIe 3.0 speeds, and one at 4.0) 6 USB 3.2 Gen 1 on the back and an internal USB 3.2 Gen 1 header. (USB 3.0 for those who know how to stick to usable names)

 

You're looking at $125 pre-tax, free shipping. You will need an older CPU though to install the BIOS update required to run the 5000 series CPUs.

[Defiantone07]

18 minutes ago, BTGbullseye said:

Well, every 500-series motherboard that isn't an ultra-budget model will fit your needs then.

 

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-b550-phantom-gaming-4-ac/p/N82E16813157936

 

That is the lowest price 500-series full-ATX motherboard with wifi and dual NVMe slots. (one is at PCIe 3.0 speeds, and one at 4.0) 6 USB 3.2 Gen 1 on the back and an internal USB 3.2 Gen 1 header. (USB 3.0 for those who know how to stick to usable names)

 

You're looking at $125 pre-tax, free shipping. You will need an older CPU though to install the BIOS update required to run the 5000 series CPUs.

not looking for budget just wondering if the $300+ boards are worth the hype or something great in the $250 range

[BTGbullseye]

19 hours ago, Defiantone07 said:

not looking for budget just wondering if the $300+ boards are worth the hype or something great in the $250 range

What hype? There arr minor differences in feature sets and quality between the $125 and $400 board price ranges.

[SamClan]

To be honest just get a B550 with wifi or a x570 with wifi. I would go with the aorus elite x570 wifi. 

I don't know if you want to have USB Type-C for the front or the back. Then what kind of USB Typ-C, 5 or 10 Gb/s. SPDIF out, 2,5 Gb/s Network etc.

 

As long as you don't go full overclocking and adventure mode it really doesn't matter which board around the 200 $ mark you get. it is about what you want to plug into it. But yes I would still read reviews some might have some weird problems. 

 

don't forget to buy it ryzen 3 ready Board or borrow a older ryzen CPU to update your Bios. oh some more expensive Motherboards have a option updating Bios without CPU installed.