Any Gigabyte X570S UD owners?

Firegod

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Hi

A family member is looking to stretch out their AM4 platform a bit longer but the motherboard could really do with an upgrade to help facilitate this (especially as they are looking to drop in a 6900XT to replace their old Vega 64 so I was worried about their current PCIe version). The Gigabyte X570S UD seems to be a resonably priced board (£139.99). But I don't know much about Gigabyte, their quality, how they are for support or returns, etc. Does anyone have this board, how does it perform? Any reasons to avoid? Are Gigabyte an OK choice?

Ideally the board needs to be able to support a 5600/5800X CPU and like I say a 6900XT and then potentially x2 M.2 Nvme drives (PCIe4/x4). I think this board will cover all of that.

Cheers.
 
Yeah that was my main concern. Running a modern / quick GPU on PCIe 3.0 interface. Would it chop the legs out not being ran on PCIe 4.0? And then also the M.2 slots are not PCIe 4.0. Just felt like if they want to get another say 2 years out of the platform, that £139.99 was a wise spend to "unlock" PCIe 4.0 capabilities?

Cheers
 
Firegod said:
And then also the M.2 slots are not PCIe 4.0.
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the only thing that improves are the sequential read/writes, for random access it's a controller/nand limitation so unless they're going to hammer the ssd hard...not really an issue

directstorage (when it will be released...nobody knows) will also work with pcie3 drives
www.pcgamer.com

Microsoft DirectStorage will work with PCIe 3.0 SSDs

You'll get a better experience with a PCIe 4.0 drive though.
www.pcgamer.com www.pcgamer.com
 
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