Couple's PC build 2021 Help

[Nemmasis]

My girlfriend and I moved in together last year and both are avid gamers and study Computer Science, We watched Linus' video on the couples PC and thought it would be a great idea to do something like that next time we both need to upgrade.

With the "release" of the new AMD CPU's  we thought it would be a great idea to start planning our own couples PC.

We're thinking about getting the R9 5950x for the CPU and an asrock x570 taichi motherboard. The only trouble is that we both have nvidia rtx 3070 graphics cards and a few NVME SSD's and so I'm worried that we'll saturate the 20 PCIE lanes (iirc) the 5950x has.

If any of you guys have any advice / knowledge to share on this that would be wonderful as we really don't want to spend double getting 2 CPU's, Motherboards and Cases when it could just be one split between the both of us through virtualisation.

[Abdullah Bhutta]

Linus said in his couple's video that the software that he used was not working correctly with Ryzen

[cm992]

Getting virtualisation to work properly and seemlessly all the time is a nightmare. You would probaly be better off sticking with your current systems and upgrading each to B550/5800X. Depending on the specs of your current systems you may be able to carry over your ram and cpu cooler for the Ryzen 5800X and get a cheap B450 board instead of a B550 to save a buck (although you lose PCIe4 graphics and M.2 with B450) many B450 boards support Ryzen 5000 right now just check the manufacturers cpu support list.