X370/470/570 PCIe 4.0 Help me understand.

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After reading what i can find i am not really understanding any better what i initially started out to learn.

So a few questions from me and i hope you can clear things up.

1. I understand some motherboards are getting a bios update to support the new Ryzen processors, But
i have read that it may also allow pcie 4.0 support as well, will it be a limited form of support.

2. If the ryzen processors have 40 lanes, will it still use 40 lanes in a lower than x570 motherboard.

3. If all the new x570 motherboards have a cooling fan on them, and a bios update allows an x470 to
do more or less the same, would a cooling fan need to be fitted to the x470 motherboard.

3. Should i just get an x570 motherboard and forget all about the x470.

thank you.
 
Bios update for the x370/450/470 to support the new 3000 Series will not give you PCI-E 4.0 & you will not need a Chipset cooling fan :)

Upcoming x570 motherboards going to cost a lot more
Gigabyte X570 ITX motherboard going to be around £220 & the top of the range £4/599

I Would wait & see the pricing on the x570 Line & choose one , they have much better VRM Heatsinks & Phases
 
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My very limited understanding is that your 16x slot will run at PCIE 4.0 with a Rzyen 3xxx. It's unclear if the 8x slot and cpu nvme slots will also get an upgrade (I'm guessing maybe and no respectively). Everything else still comes from the x470 chipset, so they won't be upgraded.
 
adrichardson81 said:
My very limited understanding is that your 16x slot will run at PCIE 4.0 with a Rzyen 3xxx.
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But is that the case?

My understanding was the mobo's PCB trace lengths would have to be within a certain spec to pass the signal degradation requirements for PCIE 4.0.

Source: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/6599...ed-gigabyte-x470-b450-motherboards/index.html

Hope your right though, as having the X370 Asus VI Crosshair Extreme support PCIE 4.0 would be the icing on the cake for me.

I know this X470 board below has a BIOS update and PCIE 4.0 is a selectable option after flashing, just not sure about every board that gets a update.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-56x-gi.html

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[EDIT] 16/6/2019

Robert Hallock - AMD said:
When final BIOSes are released for 3rd Gen Ryzen (AGESA 1000+), Gen4 will not be an option anymore.
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Now this is a rather interesting... as it does suggest that some early beta BIOS updates with AGESA 0072 AM4 ComboPI could well come with limited PCIE 4 support enabled.

I am not saying this is the case.
But as you saw above, one of the Gigabyte X470 boards does appear to have PCIE 4.0 as a selectable option.

But I will be testing my own suspicions out next month as guess who has a beta Asus 7002 BIOS which was removed from download shortly after Hallock said that.

Looks like Asus are replacing 7002 with 7003, which is slightly smaller in size and has no changelog (atm).
 
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Wingz said:
unless you want to run NVME in raid, PCIe 4.0 is won't be a a thing for a while.
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Navi GFX cards will be Gen4 and available from July 7th.

The real question is will it make a difference to gaming FPS?
As I was under the impression that not even a 2080ti gets close to fully saturating all the available bandwidth of the PCIE 3.0 spec.

3. If all the new x570 motherboards have a cooling fan on them, and a bios update allows an x470 to
do more or less the same, would a cooling fan need to be fitted to the x470 motherboard.
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I think the X570 chipset starts to get toasty when you start to really push it hard.
Hence like sticking two of those announced 5000Mb/s M.2 SSD drives in on a RAID 1, 0 configuration would probably heat things up nicely.
MSI did also mention @ Computex that their fan cooling solution on the X570 chipset will stop and idle if the temps are low enough.
But how far can the X470 chipset be pushed that gets the PCIE 4.0 spec update, who knows... some testing is required.
 
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wakadoo said:
Could the PCIe 4 nvme stuff that is due to launch use it right away.
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I do not see any reason why they wouldn't work, regardless of the PCIE revision it is a standard interface.
So it should just be a case of how fast will they actually operate once plugged in.
On the X570 it will be full speed ahead, on the X470/B450/X370 chipsets I don't know as we only currently have the 1500-2000Mb/s NVMe drives to go by.
 
The Old School Gamer said:
The real question is will it make a difference to gaming FPS?
As I was under the impression that not even a 2080ti gets close to fully saturating all the available bandwidth of the PCIE 3.0 spec.
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TBH I doubt it even gets close. I run my 1080 at 8x to give me a 2nd 3.0 nvme slot and the performance hit was margin of error territory when I tested.

The Old School Gamer said:
I know this X470 board has a BIOS update and PCIE 4.0 is a selectable option after flashing, just not sure about every board that gets a update.
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I'd guess it's probably high end only, or possibly something they'll hold back for flagship boards and if they're feeling particularly mean. Considering what the Zen 1.5 bios did to my x370 Taichi, I'm buying a new mobo regardless.
 
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wakadoo said:
2. If the ryzen processors have 40 lanes, will it still use 40 lanes in a lower than x570 motherboard.

3. If all the new x570 motherboards have a cooling fan on them, and a bios update allows an x470 to
do more or less the same, would a cooling fan need to be fitted to the x470 motherboard.

3. Should i just get an x570 motherboard and forget all about the x470.
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There's no increase in PCIe lane count of CPU.
It stays in 16+4+4. (PCIe+M.2+PCH)

And those lanes coming from chipset will stay at their current speed and there won't be any heat output increase.
Connection between CPU and chipset simply operates at old speed.

Unless there's some new motherboard support requiring in CPU's core boosting/automatic clocking, for average use with really only GPU needing high bandwidth current mobos getting PCIe v4 support for main slot can stay very relevant.
Especially unless pricing of new x570 mobos is better than expected.


Wingz said:
unless you want to run NVME in raid, PCIe 4.0 is won't be a a thing for a while.
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And neither will make meaningfull difference in most real world usage, when most home users don't do much anything which would even really benefit from NVMe over SATA.
 
OP- unless you have a high end X470 Board, Say Aorus Gaming 7- that comes with current latest wifi, high ram speed support and VRMs that can handle same power load as X570 flagships ( just in a different way) then stay with it, or pick it up when prices drop .

or just get entry x570 with features that should blow most x470/b450 out the water and should start at £115 base range
 
orbitalwalsh said:
OP- unless you have a high end X470 Board, Say Aorus Gaming 7- that comes with current latest wifi, high ram speed support and VRMs that can handle same power load as X570 flagships ( just in a different way) then stay with it, or pick it up when prices drop .

or just get entry x570 with features that should blow most x470/b450 out the water and should start at £115 base range
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orbitalwalsh i have the Gigabyte Aorus 7 Gaming wifi, good shout lol,

i really want to keep it and just drop in a new cpu, i was quite late to the ryzen party so did not get top end as i wanted to be up and
running and just wait to drop in a new gen one.
 
wakadoo said:
orbitalwalsh i have the Gigabyte Aorus 7 Gaming wifi, good shout lol,

i really want to keep it and just drop in a new cpu, i was quite late to the ryzen party so did not get top end as i wanted to be up and
running and just wait to drop in a new gen one.
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I have the Aorus 7 and its fine enough. Posted up Buildzoids VRM breakdown of x470 Master (7) and X570 Master - both handle 600 amps across the Vcore so if you want to drop in a 16 core later on you'll be fine . Just X570 power delivery is better and cooler . You'll notice Aorus ditched the Hybrid Heatsink Block and fin design of Z390 to go with all Fins like x470 .

Can run PCIe 4.0 on the GPU slot if your slapping Ryzen 3*** with latest bios , but no fancy m.2's
 
orbitalwalsh said:
I have the Aorus 7 and its fine enough. Posted up Buildzoids VRM breakdown of x470 Master (7) and X570 Master - both handle 600 amps across the Vcore so if you want to drop in a 16 core later on you'll be fine . Just X570 power delivery is better and cooler . You'll notice Aorus ditched the Hybrid Heatsink Block and fin design of Z390 to go with all Fins like x470 .

Can run PCIe 4.0 on the GPU slot if your slapping Ryzen 3*** with latest bios , but no fancy m.2's
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smashing, thank you.
 
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