I know the timing for an upgrade isn't great, but really old home-server has died so I need to upgrade the main PC and relegate the current one to server duties.
I don't upgrade very often (my current main PC is based around a Xeon x5650
) so I'm probably going to go for high-end AM4, possibly 5950x to last me for a long time. Or I may go for something lower-end AM4 now and upgrade to a 5950x when they drop into the second-hand market at lower prices, so I want a board which will be capable of stepping up to that.
I'll probably be going for 64GB RAM - something like the Corsair vengeance lpx 3200mhz DDR4 (2x32GB).
Likely to be running everything at stock, as I won't need the extra few % from overclocking.
What would be the go-to motherboard at the moment? I'm seeing lots of warnings/issues with Gigabyte quality and service so will probably steer clear of them, despite good experiences previously.
I'm unlikely to need multiple NVME drives or be running high-end graphics so X570 is probably overkill. I'm more concerned with:
- Quality of VRMs for 5950x stability
- Support for 5950x out of the box, or at least ability to BIOS flash without a supported CPU in there already.
- Dual BIOS
- Potential support for the 3D Cache iteration coming out later this year (i.e. good BIOS updates from board manufacturer).
Any recommendations gratefully received...
Thanks
I don't upgrade very often (my current main PC is based around a Xeon x5650
) so I'm probably going to go for high-end AM4, possibly 5950x to last me for a long time. Or I may go for something lower-end AM4 now and upgrade to a 5950x when they drop into the second-hand market at lower prices, so I want a board which will be capable of stepping up to that.I'll probably be going for 64GB RAM - something like the Corsair vengeance lpx 3200mhz DDR4 (2x32GB).
Likely to be running everything at stock, as I won't need the extra few % from overclocking.
What would be the go-to motherboard at the moment? I'm seeing lots of warnings/issues with Gigabyte quality and service so will probably steer clear of them, despite good experiences previously.
I'm unlikely to need multiple NVME drives or be running high-end graphics so X570 is probably overkill. I'm more concerned with:
- Quality of VRMs for 5950x stability
- Support for 5950x out of the box, or at least ability to BIOS flash without a supported CPU in there already.
- Dual BIOS
- Potential support for the 3D Cache iteration coming out later this year (i.e. good BIOS updates from board manufacturer).
Any recommendations gratefully received...
Thanks
