Which mobo for Ryzen 7 2700X and ultra-fast storage?

[keymoo]

I need to do some data processing which requires parallelization and super fast storage. So I'm looking at the Ryzen 7 2700X and a couple of Samsung 970 Evo drives. Which mobo would be best? 32 GB RAM should be sufficient.

It won't be using for gaming, so not bothered by that aspect.

 

[opethdisciple]

I do believe that when it comes to storage the Intel platforms are faster.

That's just from what I've read.

How much faster tho.... probably wouldn't make much of a difference.

 

[HellDiverUK]

Most X470 boards will drop the top 16x slot to 8x if you fit a NVMe in the top M.2 slot, as they're connected straight to the Ryzen's SOC. The rest of the slots tend to be connected to the chipset.

You could fit a GPU to a lower slot, and fit one of those cards that split a 16x slot to 4x4x slots for M.2 SSDs.

 

[pandem0nium]

Most X470 boards will drop the top 16x slot to 8x if you fit a NVMe in the top M.2 slot, as they're connected straight to the Ryzen's SOC. The rest of the slots tend to be connected to the chipset.

You could fit a GPU to a lower slot, and fit one of those cards that split a 16x slot to 4x4x slots for M.2 SSDs.

it's only the higher end Asus boards that have the second m.2 slot that shares lanes from the cpu. (AFAIK)

That is what the OP needs though if he wants two drives running at full speed on ryzen. Or a pcie adapter could be used with boards from another manufacturer.

 

[Deleted member 209350]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asrock X470 Taichi Ultimate AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £264.95
• 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Polaris 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £299.99

Total: £575.44 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Best x470 board there is, if the 2700x performance isnt enogh then you can overclock it even further. Plus future proofed for the 3000 series

Went for 1tb of nvme storage so it saves the hassle of using up 2 m.2 spots