Considering a change to AMD and either a 5800x or 5900x (if available) and wondering whats the main difference between the two chipsets, wont be doing any extreme overclocking if any so will the B550 be more than good enough?
B550 or X570
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Primary difference is the lack of PCI-E Gen 4 from the chipset. B550 only has Gen 4 on the Primary M2 slot (from the CPU) and the primary / first PCI-E slot (again from CPU)*.
Other than that the main features are broadly the same as you go up the relevant product stacks (e.g. a Asus B550 Strix-E will be very similar to a X570 Strix-E in terms of raw feature set). B550 boards also generally have decent VRM's (at least in the mid range and up) thus from and overclocking point of view you are looking at no material difference vs X570.
I would suggest buying based on the board which offers the features and look you want at your given budget (ensure you research to make sure it isn't a dud).
Oh and B550 doesn't require active chipset cooling although every X570 board I have owned has barely even run the fan beyond initial booting so.... "eh".
*I think the MSI B550 Unify may allow for a splitting of the primary PCI-E slot to allow for more M2's at gen 4 speed but not 100% on this.
Other than that the main features are broadly the same as you go up the relevant product stacks (e.g. a Asus B550 Strix-E will be very similar to a X570 Strix-E in terms of raw feature set). B550 boards also generally have decent VRM's (at least in the mid range and up) thus from and overclocking point of view you are looking at no material difference vs X570.
I would suggest buying based on the board which offers the features and look you want at your given budget (ensure you research to make sure it isn't a dud).
Oh and B550 doesn't require active chipset cooling although every X570 board I have owned has barely even run the fan beyond initial booting so.... "eh".
*I think the MSI B550 Unify may allow for a splitting of the primary PCI-E slot to allow for more M2's at gen 4 speed but not 100% on this.
Well there must be something wrong with your fan mate as i have built quite a few with x570 and havnt heard one what board have you gotB550, chipset fan on X570 is a pain, it's the loudest fan in my case.
Theres not a problem usually with the fan on x570 boards there was a issue on the msi boards where the 4th pin had been bent when fitting so it spun up at full speed but once the pi was sorted you cant hear them
Nothing wrong with it, just poorly positioned by Asus so the GPU sits right in front of the intake.
It's normal for the X570-F, you can fix the issue by moving the card but then you only get 8x which sucks.
Yeh thought you might have had the msi was going to suggest you looked at the 4th pin forgot about asus poor fan positioning
Take a look at msi b550 unify mate apparently its a excellent boardThink the last board I had with a chipset fan was an old dfi lanparty boardi think ill look at the B550's, currently looking at Rog Strix B550-F Gaming