Help picking a Mobo & RAM for a 3800x?

dtokez · 15 Jan 2021 at 13:17

Just secured a 3800x

Need a mobo & RAM pretty sharpish, I guess a x570? PCIEx4 and at least 2x M.2 slots would be good. I'll be mainly using the rig for video editing so, depending on my budget-stretching I'd like to pick up 32GB over 2x sticks.

Total budget for RAM & Mobo would be around £350-400

Cheers

mickyflinn · 15 Jan 2021 at 13:41

B550 have 2 x m2 slots second is only pcie3 speed msi tomahawk x570 or b550 are the go to boards.

Memory not a big diffrence in speed.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs432g360c8k-my-107-pa.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs432g320c6k-my-106-pa.html

DaveCator · 15 Jan 2021 at 13:51

I would go for B550 and any reasonably priced 3600Mhz RAM kit probably 32Gb unless your budget is tight.

dtokez · 15 Jan 2021 at 15:40

mickyflinn said:
B550 have 2 x m2 slots second is only pcie3 speed msi tomahawk x570 or b550 are the go to boards.

Memory not a big diffrence in speed.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs432g360c8k-my-107-pa.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs432g320c6k-my-106-pa.html

Cheers mate, RAM looks nicely priced and I'll check out those boards!

DaveCator said:
I would go for B550 and any reasonably priced 3600Mhz RAM kit probably 32Gb unless your budget is tight.

Thanks Dave. Any reason you would pick a B550 over a x570 other than cost?

DaveCator · 15 Jan 2021 at 15:59

dtokez said:
Thanks Dave. Any reason you would pick a B550 over a x570 other than cost?

The additional "features" of X570 don't justify the additional cost for me. The main selling point of the new boards of PCI-e gen 4 which B550 supports on its main M.2 slot. You can overclock on both chipsets should you want to, graphics card performance will be the same on both and they are both as future proof in terms of CPU compatibility as each other. I can't honestly see a normal use case where X570 would give additional benefits.

dtokez · 15 Jan 2021 at 20:54

DaveCator said:
The additional "features" of X570 don't justify the additional cost for me. The main selling point of the new boards of PCI-e gen 4 which B550 supports on its main M.2 slot. You can overclock on both chipsets should you want to, graphics card performance will be the same on both and they are both as future proof in terms of CPU compatibility as each other. I can't honestly see a normal use case where X570 would give additional benefits.

Very good points made there. I'm certainly questioning if I the extra cost of x570 is worth it for me now.

From what I've read, the b550 boards should have the same life cycle as the x570 CPU support wise?