New AM4 motherboard for 5950x + 128GB ram

[igormp]

Sadly my previous MSI B550 Tomahawk kicked the bucket and the RMA refunded me the money for it.

 

Now I'm looking for a new ATX motherboard to replace it, going to be using a 5950x (without any OC), 4x32gb @ 3200mhz, one 4.0 NVMe and another 3.0 one, and full time Linux.

 

I'd love for it to have a built-in IO Shield, so in the end all I could find on local stores were those B550 options (I'm not in the US):

 

- Asus Pro Art ($340)

- Asus Strix A/F ($320)

- Another MSI Tomahawk ($325)

- Gigabyte Aorus Elite v2 ($275)

 

Prices are converted from my local currency (yes, I know...), and sadly there are no good/affordable x570 options available.

 

The Pro Art has the nice bonus of having the 2nd PCIe slot connected to the CPU, which would be nice in case I get a 2nd GPU for compute, but it's not a hard requirement and an x4 slot would also work just fine for me.

 

Is there any downsides to the Aorus Elite that I may be missing? Otherwise it may be the best option given that it's also the cheapest one.

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

5 minutes ago, igormp said:

Sadly my previous MSI B550 Tomahawk kicked the bucket and the RMA refunded me the money for it.

 

Now I'm looking for a new ATX motherboard to replace it, going to be using a 5950x (without any OC), 4x32gb @ 3200mhz, one 4.0 NVMe and another 3.0 one, and full time Linux.

 

I'd love for it to have a built-in IO Shield, so in the end all I could find on local stores were those B550 options (I'm not in the US):

 

- Asus Pro Art ($340)

- Asus Strix A/F ($320)

- Another MSI Tomahawk ($325)

- Gigabyte Aorus Elite v2 ($275)

 

Prices are converted from my local currency (yes, I know...), and sadly there are no good/affordable x570 options available.

 

The Pro Art has the nice bonus of having the 2nd PCIe slot connected to the CPU, which would be nice in case I get a 2nd GPU for compute, but it's not a hard requirement and an x4 slot would also work just fine for me.

 

Is there any downsides to the Aorus Elite that I may be missing? Otherwise it may be the best option given that it's also the cheapest one.

Use this opportunity to move to a 7950x or 7900x since they are dirt cheap right now. None of those boards are worth half of what they are listed for

[freeagent]

I would go with the Pro Art.

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

1 minute ago, freeagent said:

I would go with the Pro Art.

The pro art does not have Wifi just fyi

[igormp]

3 minutes ago, Deadpool2onBlu-Ray said:

Use this opportunity to move to a 7950x or 7900x since they are dirt cheap right now. None of those boards are worth half of what they are listed for

Not cheap here, not interesting at all for me, and DDR5 is simply not worth for my use cases (also the 48GB dimms aren't available here yet, which gives me no reason at all to spend such amounts of money.

Price is also relative, AM5 boards are even more expensive, remember that I don't live in the same place you do and pricing is just different.

2 minutes ago, freeagent said:

I would go with the Pro Art.

Any specific reasons for that? I really liked it but I can't find any proper reason to go for it over the Aorus one given the price. If the aorus wasn't that cheap I'd surely go for it haha

 

2 minutes ago, Deadpool2onBlu-Ray said:

The pro art does not have Wifi just fyi

None of the options listed do, not like it's important to me anyway.

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

12 minutes ago, igormp said:

Sadly my previous MSI B550 Tomahawk kicked the bucket and the RMA refunded me the money for it.

 

Now I'm looking for a new ATX motherboard to replace it, going to be using a 5950x (without any OC), 4x32gb @ 3200mhz, one 4.0 NVMe and another 3.0 one, and full time Linux.

 

I'd love for it to have a built-in IO Shield, so in the end all I could find on local stores were those B550 options (I'm not in the US):

 

- Asus Pro Art ($340)

- Asus Strix A/F ($320)

- Another MSI Tomahawk ($325)

- Gigabyte Aorus Elite v2 ($275)

 

Prices are converted from my local currency (yes, I know...), and sadly there are no good/affordable x570 options available.

 

The Pro Art has the nice bonus of having the 2nd PCIe slot connected to the CPU, which would be nice in case I get a 2nd GPU for compute, but it's not a hard requirement and an x4 slot would also work just fine for me.

 

Is there any downsides to the Aorus Elite that I may be missing? Otherwise it may be the best option given that it's also the cheapest one.

Of those options I'd go for the Aorus Elite

[Failure 101]

Country?

33 minutes ago, igormp said:

Sadly my previous MSI B550 Tomahawk kicked the bucket and the RMA refunded me the money for it.

 

Now I'm looking for a new ATX motherboard to replace it, going to be using a 5950x (without any OC), 4x32gb @ 3200mhz, one 4.0 NVMe and another 3.0 one, and full time Linux.

 

I'd love for it to have a built-in IO Shield, so in the end all I could find on local stores were those B550 options (I'm not in the US):

 

- Asus Pro Art ($340)

- Asus Strix A/F ($320)

- Another MSI Tomahawk ($325)

- Gigabyte Aorus Elite v2 ($275)

 

Prices are converted from my local currency (yes, I know...), and sadly there are no good/affordable x570 options available.

 

The Pro Art has the nice bonus of having the 2nd PCIe slot connected to the CPU, which would be nice in case I get a 2nd GPU for compute, but it's not a hard requirement and an x4 slot would also work just fine for me.

 

Is there any downsides to the Aorus Elite that I may be missing? Otherwise it may be the best option given that it's also the cheapest one.

 

 

[igormp]

28 minutes ago, Deadpool2onBlu-Ray said:

Of those options I'd go for the Aorus Elite

Solely on price (which is a really valid reason tbh), or is there something else that it does better than the others?

8 minutes ago, Failure 101 said:

Country?

Brazil.

[SorryBella]

6 hours ago, igormp said:

- Asus Pro Art ($340)

- Asus Strix A/F ($320)

- Another MSI Tomahawk ($325)

- Gigabyte Aorus Elite v2 ($275)

PArt would be my pick, but the Aorus Elite is good because it is cheap for the hardware it gets. Gigabyte BIOS on AM4 is insanely ass to navigate except for near-stock op.

[igormp]

28 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

PArt would be my pick

Any specific reason that you'd go for it over the others?

[SorryBella]

5 minutes ago, igormp said:

Any specific reason that you'd go for it over the others?

Overbuilt VRM, flexible connectivity, and included Thunderbolt support via add in card.