Which mobo for Ryzen 7 2700X and ultra-fast storage?

keymoo

keymoo

keymoo

Associate
Joined
25 Oct 2002
Posts
230
Location
Bedfordshire, UK
I need to do some data processing which requires parallelization and super fast storage. So I'm looking at the Ryzen 7 2700X and a couple of Samsung 970 Evo drives. Which mobo would be best? 32 GB RAM should be sufficient.

It won't be using for gaming, so not bothered by that aspect.
 
I do believe that when it comes to storage the Intel platforms are faster.

That's just from what I've read.

How much faster tho.... probably wouldn't make much of a difference.
 
Most X470 boards will drop the top 16x slot to 8x if you fit a NVMe in the top M.2 slot, as they're connected straight to the Ryzen's SOC. The rest of the slots tend to be connected to the chipset.

You could fit a GPU to a lower slot, and fit one of those cards that split a 16x slot to 4x4x slots for M.2 SSDs.
 
HellDiverUK said:
Most X470 boards will drop the top 16x slot to 8x if you fit a NVMe in the top M.2 slot, as they're connected straight to the Ryzen's SOC. The rest of the slots tend to be connected to the chipset.

You could fit a GPU to a lower slot, and fit one of those cards that split a 16x slot to 4x4x slots for M.2 SSDs.
Click to expand...

it's only the higher end Asus boards that have the second m.2 slot that shares lanes from the cpu. (AFAIK)

That is what the OP needs though if he wants two drives running at full speed on ryzen. Or a pcie adapter could be used with boards from another manufacturer.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom