Soldato
What am I missing?
OCUK have X570 boards cheaper...aren't they better specced than B550?
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What am I missing?
OCUK have X570 boards cheaper...aren't they better specced than B550?
Caporegime
Look at the normal pricing of the B450 motherboards they replaced. The B450 Mortar for a very long time was around £80~£95. The US price for the B550 Mortar with 20% VAT,would equate to around £170. You might as well get an X570 motherboard!!
Soldato
Well that's kind of the point I'm making.
Why buy an inferior board that's more expensive than the superior board.
Caporegime
The Asus B550I Strix looks to be over £220,and my B450I Strix was £140~£150. I hope it's not AMD partners quietly replacing entry level X570 motherboards with B550 motherboards?
Caporegime
Soldato
Ram speed (and timings) can make a bigger difference than an overclock for games and other latency-sensitive applications.
Soldato
This is what I said earlier but then then was shot down.
Your better off spending time to overclock your ram than you are overclocking the CPU.
Soldato
$219 for the Carbon Wi-Fi vs £119 for the B450 version, seems a bit of high price.
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Some of it might be the pci4, some might be the wifi6 which many boards seem to have, some of it might be the 2.5 internet (which I hope isn't hobbled like the intel boards), but altogether it does speak of grabbing extra pounds for the sake of slight future compatibility.
Caporegime
The lowest end B550 motherboard from Gigabyte starts at $100:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/grw59u/aorus_b550_cheatsheet_updated_with_msrp_pricing/
So £100,is the bare minimum for a B550 motherboard.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/grw59u/aorus_b550_cheatsheet_updated_with_msrp_pricing/
So £100,is the bare minimum for a B550 motherboard.
Still glad I went X570 for around £170 about 7-8 months ago and did not listen to the all knowing and infallible Panos who recommended I wait for B550 which would be out in November 2019
LMAO
Oh yes infallible indeed lol. (insert sarcasm here)
Soldato
Am I likely to be hampered much by my 3000mhz ram? Considering an upgrade to 32gb 3600.
Soldato
Depending on your GPU, possibly. My Timespy CPU physics score went from 10,3xx (with 3600 C15 XMP) to 112xx @3800 C16 w/ tuned sub timings. Tombraider bench picked up like 15fps on the min side IIRC.
3600 C15 was a pretty strong starting point too.
Soldato
Thtat's what I mean. No Ryzen CPU overclock is gonna give you 15fps gain. But a ram overclock will.
If you game at 1080p or something. At 4K it makes little to no difference from what I can tell, 1fps if you are lucky
Soldato
I'm on a 1070 at 1440p, so maybe wouldn't see too much difference. GPU is my biggest bottleneck. I may treat myself to a 3070 when they eventually appear 
Soldato
If you want higher clocks, put your effort into cooling. I run mostly driving sims in VR so, with headphones on, I have my 280mm AIO go to blast at 50C. My 3800X runs all cores at 4.4ghz in Project Cars 2 with temps in the mid to high 40's...stock.
These CPU's boost like graphics cards.
These CPU's boost like graphics cards.