B650 or X670 advice please?

Rib_Tickler

Rib_Tickler

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Haven't built a new PC in years. See spec below. I'm going to get ryzen 7600 or 7700. Possibly 6750xt. i need 3 x M.2. 4 x SATA. Will be keep motherboard a good 5 years.
I've narrowed the motherboard list a bit. But this pci lane and sharing bandwidth is confusing the hell out of me. Want a board that will run eeverything full pace or close.

Any advise would be helpfully. Thanks.
 
Rib_Tickler said:
Haven't built a new PC in years. See spec below. I'm going to get ryzen 7600 or 7700. Possibly 6750xt. i need 3 x M.2. 4 x SATA. Will be keep motherboard a good 5 years.
I've narrowed the motherboard list a bit. But this pci lane and sharing bandwidth is confusing the hell out of me. Want a board that will run eeverything full pace or close.

Any advise would be helpfully. Thanks.
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This is exactly the reason I went for the ASUS X670e Gene, I dont run any SATA drives in my system at all (A lot less wiring to deal with) at the moment im running 3 x PCI-e 4 nvme drives, I wanted a board that would support at least 2 x PCI-e 5 nvme drives and a PCI-e 5 GFX card which this does.

AMD generally support the sockets for years which is why I choose them over Intel, the only reason i'll change the board is if the newer AM5 CPUs in the upcoming years have more PCI-e lanes and add PCI-e 5 and upwards across the whole board.

I dont really see any point buying B650, most of the boards are PCI-e 4 across the board, so unless you must have the latest CPU and DDR5 then you might as well go for X570S
 
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r3k0 said:
Hmm, it's just that on the front of the box it says Pcie5 ready (Gfx and Nvme ONLY) ??? (same as the B650e) I'm confused :/
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B650E and X670E both have PCI-E 5.0 graphics and 1 or more PCI-E 5.0 M.2 slot(s).

B650 and X670 have PCI-E 4.0 graphics and may have 1 or more PCI-E 5.0 M.2 slot(s).

There shouldn't be any lane sharing between graphics and M.2, unless the manufacturer tries to shove more PCI-E 5.0 M.2 slots into the board than it has lanes (the CPUs can support 2, so I'd expect that number to be 3).
 
Thanks mate.
I will probably stay with the Rog B650e-F that i have here then, it was just the Gfx and Nvme ONLY statement on the front of the box that confused me, and thought i would clarify before opening and using it.
 
r3k0 said:
it was just the Gfx and Nvme ONLY statement on the front of the box that confused me
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No idea why they put that "ONLY", maybe they think someone is going to buy a PCI-E 5.0 sound card and then complain there's no PCI-E 5.0 slot to put it in.
 
Tetras said:
No idea why they put that "ONLY", maybe they think someone is going to buy a PCI-E 5.0 sound card and then complain there's no PCI-E 5.0 slot to put it in.
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Yep, it instantly made me think i should look into it, As it was i have had no time today to start the build so nothing lost ;)
 
w00dy85 said:
I would look at something like this, I'm building my son a PC at Christmas and I am planning on using this board

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ocket-am5-ddr5-atx-motherboard-mb-6jx-as.html
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Free Starfield with the following ASUS motherboards >> https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lp/asus-rog-starfield-promo
Also £25 cashback via Asus - Rate My Gear >> https://www.asus.com/events/promotions/uk/ratemygear/

I'm just not that keen on Asus anymore, but it's tempting!
 
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