Best Motherboard & RAM for 3950x?

V4FRP

V4FRP

V4FRP

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I've been thinking about upgrading my current setup for a while as I built it about 4-5 years ago. Currently looks something like this:

i7 3770k
MSI Z97
8GB
256GB SSD + 2TB HDD
Nvidia 1080

All on a custom watercooling loop using mainly EK parts with a 280 and 240 Radiator. I've been really happy with how it has lasted but time for an upgrade and I'm getting a 3950x through work :)

I want to get a new case and transfer most of my loop over (will upgrade the 240 rad to a 360) but I'm not sure what would be the 'best' motherboard and memory to pair the 3950x with. I'm looking for something that is user friendly and features like wifi 6 and PCIe 4 would be useful to keep it future proof for a few years so looks like X570 is probably the way forward but not sure which models/brands to go for.

Planning to keep my 1080 for the moment until the next gen cards are released later this year but probably looking to spend upto £500-600 on Motherboard and Memory. Can spend more if its worth it though.

Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks!
 
V4FRP said:
Thanks, can I ask what RAM you are using with it?
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Sure
Though I used ram from previous build
As the costs were getting pretty
High
With all the other stuff I bought lol
It's corsair vengeance lpx
3000mhz cas15 4 x 8gb
3600mhz or Little lower with tight
Timings seems to be the
Recommended way to go
 
Most of X570 boards will power 12 and 16 cores easily.
It's only when overclocking when you would start needing to look more into it.

And with 16 cores you can just forget manual overclocking if you play games:
Would need some exotic cooling to push all core clocks closer to automatic boost clocks of the most heavily loaded cores.
 
EsaT said:
Most of X570 boards will power 12 and 16 cores easily.
It's only when overclocking when you would start needing to look more into it.

And with 16 cores you can just forget manual overclocking if you play games:
Would need some exotic cooling to push all core clocks closer to automatic boost clocks of the most heavily loaded cores.
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Would a 360mm and a 280mm radiator be enough cooling graphics card and CPU? Not looking to push it too much tbh anyway
 
Water won't cut it with 16 cores.
Some chilled water would be starting point for hoping to push all 16 cores far enough to not get gaming performance penalty.
Gaming performance depends mostly on execution speed of couple main threads.
 
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