Motherboard decision.

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Hi all,

Looking at an upgrade and would like thoughts and opinions.

Cpu wise I'm more than likely going to go with a 3600.

Ram I have 16gb of 3600mhz TeamGroup Vulcan TUF gaming alliance CL19-19-19-39.

Gpu is a 1080

And I have an nvme ssd along with other 2 other ssds.

Motherboard is the question.

Needs to be mATX to go in my meshify mini. So the obvious choice atm is an MSI b450m mortar max.

However do I wait for b550? What will that give me over and above b450? And will it result in changes to b450 prices on release do we think?

Also needs enough USBs to accommodate my oculus rift.

Thanks in advance.
 
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I would wait for B550, not too long now. Should give PCIE 4.0 for one GPU and M.2 drive and I think faster RAM support but someone will correct me if I'm wrong

I'm debating upgrading my B450 to one
 
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Hi all,

Looking at an upgrade and would like thoughts and opinions.

Cpu wise I'm more than likely going to go with a 3600.

Ram I have 16gb of 3600mhz TeamGroup Vulcan TUF gaming alliance CL19-19-19-39.

Gpu is a 1080

And I have an nvme ssd along with other 2 other ssds.

Motherboard is the question.

Needs to be mATX to go in my meshify mini. So the obvious choice atm is an MSI b450m mortar max.

However do I wait for b550? What will that give me over and above b450? And will it result in changes to b450 prices on release do we think?

Also needs enough USBs to accommodate my oculus rift.

Thanks in advance.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD65w5RVmtY

Watch this then decide if you can be bothers to wait. MSI rep has advised stock due to land End of month 1st week june. Pricing not 100% confirmed but expected to be around the £200 mark
 
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I'd wait for B550 too. I'm currently runnig a B350 and from reading around the extra features that will be brought to the B550 over the B450 are what Relentless has highlighted above.
 
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I'd wait for B550 too. I'm currently runnig a B350 and from reading around the extra features that will be brought to the B550 over the B450 are what Relentless has highlighted above.

Cheers, so we're saying PCIe 4. Higher RAM support.

Aside from some future proofing, will a 1080 see any material gain from running on pcie4?

I will be interested to see how the 3300x performs v 3600 on both b450 and b550. That could make some difference I guess.
 
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Aside from some future proofing, will a 1080 see any material gain from running on pcie4?

A 1080 isn't restricted by PCIe3 so unfortunately there won't be any gain to be had. The immediate gain will be from using a PCIe4 SSD drive. Future GPU's will require PCIe4 but I couldn't say how soon that will be.
 
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3300x is performing with 3600, use the saved money elsewhere on the build or towards x570 over b550

Thanks for the info on the 3300x performance. However, the only mATX x570 board is £180 vs £100 for a b450. So the money saved on getting a 3300x v 3600 would be more than outweighed. Don't esnt make sense imo.
 
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