Best stable X570 board?

[nitrousx123]

I have a friend that is looking to build a PC for his son. His son has already put together a list, but I have been reading up on X570 boards and some of the boards seem to have cold boot issues.

I was looking at the X570 Aurous Wifi Pro model but it seems to have these issues. I like it but I don't want to recommend a board that will fail within a few months of owning it. Any one out there that has a X570 board that they have been using one give me their opinions please.



Being that this will be there're first PC together I would like to make sure it goes as smooth as possible.I have linked the PC parts that I have put together, please note it is WIP. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

 

[nitrousx123]

What will his son be using the PC for?

And what other parts is he looking at?.

Will he be needing wifi?.

From what is Dad was said he was looking to use it for streaming and gaming at the same time.
Here is a list of the original components he had suggested:
CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 3950X (700 GBP)
CPU Cooler - NZXT Kraken Z73 - 360mm (240 GBP)
GPU - Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 - Founder's Edition (1400 GBP)
RAM - Corsair DOMINATOR PLATINUM RGB 32GB (2x16GB) - 4000mHz (450 GBP)
Motherboard - ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi (400 GBP)
Drives - Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2TB M.2 SSD) (360 GBP), Seagate IronWolf 6TB (160 GBP)
PSU - Corsair HX1200i (250 GBP)
Fan - NZXT AER RGB - 120mm (25 GBP)
Case - NZXT H510 Elite - Black (150 GBP)
Paste - Thermal Paste - Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut (1g) - 5 GBP
Total - 4140 GBP

I said it is a good list but I could make a PC build for less some of the parts he listed was abit overkill. Please note I have not put in the GPU as I suggested waiting until all the graphics cards are out on the market before hitting the buy button. Please see link here on ************ https://uk.************.com/list/JJwxyk

 

[nitrousx123]

Go on youtube and watch Hardware Unboxed X570 / B550 motherboard reviews or Gamers Nexus.

Yeah I follow both channels and from between their recommendations and Amazon user reviews this is the board I was considering. I also spoke to users on reddit and it suggests that the newer revisions are better along with the new bios updates they are more stable

 

[nitrousx123]

Definitely wouldn't buy 3950X now.
And really now isn't time for buying anything expensive.
Release of Zen3 architecture is in 8th of next month and similar to Zen+ to Zen2 jump would put 12 core Zen3 close to 3950X in multithreaded loads while naturally beating it in anything with single core dependancy.

If waterpipes are must, Arctic has actually beefy radiators in Freezer II serie and without fashion overprices.

And there's zero need for very expensive board.
Any proper X570 board has overkill VRMs for stock AM4 CPUs.
MSI X570 Tomahawk is more than enough of motherboard.
In fact its VRM is pretty much at lunatically overkill level.
Also MSI's chipset cooler beats the crap out of marketroid designs of Asus boards...
Which have marketing excrements hiding small heatsinks under them, relying on constant airflow from constantly running fan, with everything positioned under graphics card to be bathed in its heat.
While properly designed X570 coolers of Gigabyte and MSI can run mostly passively.
(which also means fan's failure wouln't be certain catastrophe)

Also for gaming and streaming there's zero sense in big luxury price of PCIe v4.
Adata SX8200 Pro could be found for over £100 less.
Same for Silicon Power P34A80.


And off the charts bat crazy oversizing would make that PSU run at obsolete 80+ standard efficiencies when not gaming.
It would barely reach its best efficiency area under gaming load.

Yeah my exact thoughts hence why I made a revised version of the list that it is more adequate for what they want to do

 

[nitrousx123]

I revised his build to a Ryzen 7 3700x see here PC partpicker. He has now built the PC now just waiting on Navi or RTX 3080 orders to be in supply. He bought a RTX 2070 2nd hand whilst he waits

 

[nitrousx123]

I personally be buying a X570 Aorus Master Board