Switch out Mobo?

[Clambake5557]

Budget (including currency): About 400 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Virtual Reality (Oculus Link and Virtual Desktop), Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender.

The motherboard that I have has a broken USB 3 port in the back from accidentally tripping on a hyperx headphone cable, causing that port to break as well as the sound card. Also my current cooler is starting to get a little louder than usual. Right now I see 2 options,
A: Keep motherboard, find case that will work without adapters, get a better CPU cooler plus some fans
B: Upgrade motherboard, get the specific case I like, get a better CPU cooler plus some fans

Current Build
Potential Upgrade

 

How's my pick?

[RONOTHAN##]

I probably wouldn't be looking at that X570 board in particular, until you get to the $250 mark I would argue B550 boards are better per dollar (the B550 Taichi, for instance is the same price and a significantly better featured motherboard). Getting a board upgrade in general though is not a bad idea. The case is great, it's my go to recommendation right now, and the cooler is a little expensive if you want to drop down to an equally performing Thermalright Peerless Assassin or Deepcool AK620 if you want to save a bit of money. 

[Clambake5557]

Yeah that port would be really nice to use, I am still deciding on cooler though. I have considered getting an AIO, but I would rather get an air cooler since it's cheaper and AMD recommends that model (alongside others I have looked at) for their 120W TDP and lower.

[Clambake5557]

5 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

I probably wouldn't be looking at that X570 board in particular, until you get to the $250 mark I would argue B550 boards are better per dollar (the B550 Taichi, for instance is the same price and a significantly better featured motherboard). Getting a board upgrade in general though is not a bad idea. The case is great, it's my go to recommendation right now, and the cooler is a little expensive if you want to drop down to an equally performing Thermalright Peerless Assassin or Deepcool AK620 if you want to save a bit of money. 

Ah, just saw this reply, yeah maybe the AK620 is better. My reasoning for the x570 board was so i don't have to flash bios and do all that. Compatible right out of the box.

Edit: Swapped out the cooler and mobo, price is lower which is nice, still a little nervous regarding the bios version of that board with my cpu.

[RONOTHAN##]

5 minutes ago, Clambake5557 said:

Ah, just saw this reply, yeah maybe the AK620 is better. My reasoning for the x570 board was so i don't have to flash bios and do all that. Compatible right out of the box.

I wouldn't be too worried about flashing the BIOS, Ryzen 5000 has been out for 3 years now, you'd have to have found a board that's been sitting on a shelf for 3 years in order to have to do a BIOS update, which is very rare. The X570S boards might be guaranteed, though I wouldn't worry about that too much. Besides, BIOS flashback is really easy to use if it does come down to it, so getting a worse motherboard to avoid a rather rare potential 5 minutes of hassle doesn't really seem worth it to me. 

[Clambake5557]

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getting a worse motherboard to avoid a rather rare potential 5 minutes of hassle doesn't really seem worth it to me.

How else is it considered worse besides value?

[RONOTHAN##]

27 minutes ago, Clambake5557 said:

How else is it considered worse besides value?

Just a less complete feature set. The Taichi has x8/x8 support for more high bandwidth add in cards, a POST code for significantly easier troubleshooting, more SATA ports, and a better VRM (not that this matters for AM4, no chip needs more than a ~$140 board, but still). Only advantage of the X570S Aorus Elite is that it has an extra M.2 slot on board (this can be fixed with very inexpensive add in cards if you care), its got Gen 4 all around as opposed to Gen 3 on everything but the top two x16 slots and top M.2 slot (I'd argue this doesn't really matter), and more rear USB ports. The POST code alone would be enough for me to go Taichi, it is such a useful feature that can't be easily added to other boards, and everything else is just a bonus. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

3 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

The POST code alone would be enough for me to go Taichi, it is such a useful feature that can't be easily added to other boards, and everything else is just a bonus. 

I mean in theory you just buy one of those lpc debug cards and hook it up to whatever lpc header your mobo has (usually the tpm header)

 

Theyre like 5$ for those cheap laptop analyzer cards

 

Most boards seem to have a tpm header so just hook the lpc header on the card to the lpc pins on the tpm header and now you got cheap postcode

 

 

Any ~100$ board will do, id look at the b550m pro4/pg riptide

[RONOTHAN##]

3 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

I mean in theory you just buy one of those lpc debug cards and hook it up to whatever lpc header your mobo has (usually the tpm header)

 

Theyre like 5$ for those cheap laptop analyzer cards

 

Most boards seem to have a tpm header so just hook the lpc header on the card to the lpc pins on the tpm header and now you got cheap postcode

 

 

Any ~100$ board will do, id look at the b550m pro4/pg riptide

I have considered buying one just to see if they actually do work, I have my doubts given everything I know about modern board design. It's possible they do, but I'll believe it when I see it. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

16 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

I have considered buying one just to see if they actually do work, I have my doubts given everything I know about modern board design. It's possible they do, but I'll believe it when I see it. 

Obviously the pcie wont work but i dont see how lpc wouldnt considering most non pci debug cards that actually work use lpc/tpm headers

 

Im also looking to buy one to test on my boards with no pci slots

 

Also this uses lpc so if that works then i dont see how this cheaper lpc debug card wouldnt

[Failure 101]

1 hour ago, Clambake5557 said:

Budget (including currency): About 400 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Virtual Reality (Oculus Link and Virtual Desktop), Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender.

The motherboard that I have has a broken USB 3 port in the back from accidentally tripping on a hyperx headphone cable, causing that port to break as well as the sound card. Also my current cooler is starting to get a little louder than usual. Right now I see 2 options,
A: Keep motherboard, find case that will work without adapters, get a better CPU cooler plus some fans
B: Upgrade motherboard, get the specific case I like, get a better CPU cooler plus some fans

Current Build
Potential Upgrade

 

How's my pick?

Option C Used 3080/90/ and sell the 3060

[Why_Me]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU Cooler: *Deepcool AG620 67.88 CFM CPU Cooler  ($43.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $203.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-07-06 16:15 EDT-0400

[Clambake5557]

On 7/6/2023 at 5:44 PM, Failure 101 said:

Option C Used 3080/90/ and sell the 3060

What about a 3060 ti?
I got a 3060 because of my budget.

[Failure 101]

4 hours ago, Clambake5557 said:

What about a 3060 ti?
I got a 3060 because of my budget.

Not worth the hassle to upgrade imo. and you have the budget for a used 3080 so why not do it?