AMD Zen 3 (5000 Series), rumored 17% IPC gain.

benjii · 27 Oct 2020 at 21:55

CuriousTomCat said:
Some leaks suggested X670 at the end of the year but I'm 90% sure it's fake news.

B550 and X570 will be the prefered platform for the new processors. Personally I'd go for B550 because they have excellent VRM's and no fan (unless you specifically need the extra PCIe lanes.)

That wouldn't make any sense, there's nothing they could add to warrant a new chipset. My guess is X670 will be AM5 and support DDR5 and so on.

queamin · 27 Oct 2020 at 22:12

Have they refreshed the x570 or going too later, there were talk about sorting out retimers on pcie4.0 and going fan less.?

Shaolin Chicken · 27 Oct 2020 at 22:27

queamin said:
Have they refreshed the x570 or going too later, there were talk about sorting out retimers on pcie4.0 and going fan less.?

There is a new asus board crosshair hero dark or something, which doesn't have the chipset fan.
Not sure about the retimers and the board is expensive.

Grim5 · 27 Oct 2020 at 22:42

Shaolin Chicken said:
There is a new asus board crosshair hero dark or something, which doesn't have the chipset fan.
Not sure about the retimers and the board is expensive.

that board is ridiculous - it's a crosshair hero with the chipset fan removed but more expensive than the formula

Digital X · 28 Oct 2020 at 01:29

This one? https://rog.asus.com/articles/crosshair-motherboards/introducing-the-rog-crosshair-viii-dark-hero/

CuriousTomCat · 28 Oct 2020 at 07:59

That's an ugly motherboard. All the ROG boards are to be honest. BIOS updates are released much later that other manufacturers. After sales support is bad. People buy them because they view them with a certain prestige/luxury. It's brilliant marketing.

beany_bot · 28 Oct 2020 at 09:49

Haven't been able to keep up. Any good leaks (gaming perf) yet?

KentMan · 28 Oct 2020 at 09:52

Lord have mercy what is this Monster ???

https://twitter.com/x/status/1321387908889251842

Guest2 · 28 Oct 2020 at 10:04

Dunno, but this looks legit - 5800X CPUZ validation

http://valid.x86.fr/60vs0l

LePhuronn · 28 Oct 2020 at 10:06

KentMan said:
Lord have mercy what is this Monster ???

https://twitter.com/x/status/1321387908889251842

This, presumably...
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-threadripper-pro-3995wx

LePhuronn · 28 Oct 2020 at 10:07

CuriousTomCat said:
That's an ugly motherboard

Aesthetics are subjective, but I'd say that's easily one of the best looking ROG boards ever, simply because it's not their usual OTT blingy ROG trash. Hell, bin off the ROG from the IO shroud and it'd be a stunning board. Hell of a lot better than the Strix boards.

Grim5 · 28 Oct 2020 at 10:10

CuriousTomCat said:
That's an ugly motherboard. All the ROG boards are to be honest. BIOS updates are released much later that other manufacturers. After sales support is bad. People buy them because they view them with a certain prestige/luxury. It's brilliant marketing.

never had any issues with after sales support here, though I deal with the store never direct

Guest2 · 28 Oct 2020 at 10:29

LePhuronn said:
Aesthetics are subjective, but I'd say that's easily one of the best looking ROG boards ever, simply because it's not their usual OTT blingy ROG trash. Hell, bin off the ROG from the IO shroud and it'd be a stunning board. Hell of a lot better than the Strix boards.

Exactly, thats board looks great
Similar looking to the MSI MEG Unify I bought, nice and black. None of the flashing bright lights that make computer parts look like a Fisherprice my first kiddies pc! Can't stand all the bright lights and flashing rainbow fans but each to their own I suppose

LePhuronn · 28 Oct 2020 at 10:37

Guest2 said:
MSI MEG Unify

Now y'see this is a great example of what I said about subjectivity: I really don't like that board. To me, it looks haphazard and badly thought out, there's no rhyme or reason to the lines and shapes on the board, no symmetry. It's like the designer went "well, doing lines and ridges on heatsinks and shrouds is the in thing these days, but everybody else only uses 1 or 2 directions. USE ALL TEH ANGLEZZZZ!!! to be different!". And then took a can of black Plasti-Dip to everything.

Guest2 · 28 Oct 2020 at 10:56

LePhuronn said:
Now y'see this is a great example of what I said about subjectivity: I really don't like that board. To me, it looks haphazard and badly thought out, there's no rhyme or reason to the lines and shapes on the board, no symmetry. It's like the designer went "well, doing lines and ridges on heatsinks and shrouds is the in thing these days, but everybody else only uses 1 or 2 directions. USE ALL TEH ANGLEZZZZ!!! to be different!". And then took a can of black Plasti-Dip to everything.

It's a PCB with components on. If it has shapes or symmetry i dont care, as long as it doesnt impact functionality. I want my IT equipment to be functional and work, rather than have it on a desk with a clear case for people to admire. I have good original paintings to look at on my walls

Here you go, check out all that boring symmerty and black goodness!

DeathStorm · 28 Oct 2020 at 10:59

CuriousTomCat said:
That's an ugly motherboard. All the ROG boards are to be honest. BIOS updates are released much later that other manufacturers. After sales support is bad. People buy them because they view them with a certain prestige/luxury. It's brilliant marketing.

I quite like the aesthetic of the Dark hero but have no idea when it's coming out and it's not going to be at a price point I want to touch, I'd feel more confident about spending twice the money if we could get some information on upcoming chipsets/boards.

I hate choosing a motherboard, unless you've got specific requirements which force you to very specific models it's tedious to go through the million different gaming/wifi/unity/master/xtreme/prostreme/superduper naming conventions then you check out commercial reviews and they're all generally positive or you get to read all the individual horror stories about certain boards.

I thought I'd settled on the B550 Tomahawk but then the X570 isn't much more expensive and opinion seems positive for it... I hate motherboards.

Combat Fighter · 28 Oct 2020 at 11:34

CuriousTomCat said:
That's an ugly motherboard. All the ROG boards are to be honest. BIOS updates are released much later that other manufacturers. After sales support is bad. People buy them because they view them with a certain prestige/luxury. It's brilliant marketing.

Indeed. I can’t stand anything from Anus.

Smiffy-UK · 28 Oct 2020 at 11:36

Combat Fighter said:
Indeed. I can’t stand anything from Anus.

Hello fellow gooner!

LePhuronn · 28 Oct 2020 at 12:45

Guest2 said:
It's a PCB with components on. If it has shapes or symmetry i dont care, as long as it doesnt impact functionality

I do love me something as beautiful as it is powerful. Which is why I don't buy kit that sacrifice the performance for some plastic covers and rainbow vomit

pBay · 28 Oct 2020 at 13:36

LePhuronn said:
I do love me something as beautiful as it is powerful. Which is why I don't buy kit that sacrifice the performance for some plastic covers and rainbow vomit

I'd love the Gigabyte B550 vision D in my white Lian li case but id be paying for stuff I'd never use. Struggling to decide between that and the x570 unify which is likely the better purchase.