MSI's X570 Tomahawk May Become Go-To OC Board??

Richdog · 11 Jul 2020 at 13:34

Griff7520 said:
sod it, cancelled and bought the asus strix x570 e instead, picking it up this afternoon. It has a few features that was missing on the tomahawk so decided to change it.

Nice one. Just out of interest, what does it have over the Tomahawk?

Griff7520 · 11 Jul 2020 at 13:53

extra pump connectors as i have 2 loops in my pc, also tsensors on it and i like the post debug thingy. probably not worth the 70 quid extra but i like asus anyway and it has good reviews

Richdog · 11 Jul 2020 at 13:55

Griff7520 said:
extra pump connectors as i have 2 loops in my pc, also tsensors on it and i like the post debug thingy. probably not worth the 70 quid extra but i like asus anyway and it has good reviews

Don't stress about the £70 if you can afford it... in the end a motherboard should do everything you want it to do and it's usually one of the longest life components in your PC so you do get good value from it vs a lot of other things we spend (and waste) money on.

butter30 · 11 Jul 2020 at 17:40

Just wondering on everyone's opinion, is it worth buying the X570 tomahawk now and then get the 4000 series CPU when they come out or just buy both when the new CPU comes out?

gazzaa · 11 Jul 2020 at 19:58

butter30 said:
Just wondering on everyone's opinion, is it worth buying the X570 tomahawk now and then get the 4000 series CPU when they come out or just buy both when the new CPU comes out?

Im buying the board now with a 3600 then upgrading the cpu to the 4000 series later I’ve been on a z97 with a 4790k for years so this motherboard upgrade will last years as it has all the next gen console features like pci-e 4 for fast storage ect.

Destination · 11 Jul 2020 at 20:15

gazzaa said:
Im buying the board now with a 3600 then upgrading the cpu to the 4000 series later I’ve been on a z97 with a 4790k for years so this motherboard upgrade will last years as it has all the next gen console features like pci-e 4 for fast storage ect.

exactly what i did
moved from an i7 920 to the equivalent xeon5650, and from there to a 3600, delighted, absolutely delighted.
likely will drop in a 4000 at some point, but given how happy I am with the 3600 (for £157) I might just wait a while

PeegeeTips · 12 Jul 2020 at 14:19

Destination said:
gazzaa said:

Im buying the board now with a 3600 then upgrading the cpu to the 4000 series later I’ve been on a z97 with a 4790k for years so this motherboard upgrade will last years as it has all the next gen console features like pci-e 4 for fast storage ect.

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exactly what i did
moved from an i7 920 to the equivalent xeon5650, and from there to a 3600, delighted, absolutely delighted.
likely will drop in a 4000 at some point, but given how happy I am with the 3600 (for £157) I might just wait a while

and exactly what i have done too.

GavJL · 13 Jul 2020 at 14:02

Last i heard, these were due in today.

*Fingers crossed*

Caal-Shto · 13 Jul 2020 at 15:46

It's in stock. Just ordered 1 hour ago

gazzaa · 13 Jul 2020 at 16:59

Mines shipped today ordered mine over a week ago

GavJL · 13 Jul 2020 at 17:03

Yeah mine just got added to my order. Exactly 1 month after i ordered it (13th of June) my full build is now on its way lol

Rup · 13 Jul 2020 at 17:05

yup mine shiped today. £10 more than elsewhere but cant be bothered to wait.
Anyway need to suppport OCUK else rainforest would be monopoly.

w2eag · 13 Jul 2020 at 17:55

Mine hasn't shipped yet unfortunately. Ordered it on the 26th.

jimferno · 13 Jul 2020 at 18:18

Stares at competitor's stock level and order status.

Stock expected 21/07

"Processing"

JollyJamma · 13 Jul 2020 at 20:44

butter30 said:
Just wondering on everyone's opinion, is it worth buying the X570 tomahawk now and then get the 4000 series CPU when they come out or just buy both when the new CPU comes out?

I got a 3300X, Tomahawk X570 and 16gigs of Crucial with the plan to build an ok rig this year and then upgrade to Zen 3 when it arrives.

the 3600 would have been a better balanced purchase for my needs but it was an extra 40 squid for a temp CPU.

If you need a new computer and you will make good use of it, there’s no reason to wait. There will always be something new coming out down the road.

look at Intel. They launched the 1200 socket and have recently confirmed that the 1700 socket is also coming out

is the 1700 pin socket an HEDT part?

Destination · 14 Jul 2020 at 07:59

No its the gen after they upgrade the current gen.
Standard Intel.
The fact the current socket will manage to take another chip is what makes it slightly different from standard intel.

JollyJamma · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:55

Destination said:
No its the gen after they upgrade the current gen.
Standard Intel.
The fact the current socket will manage to take another chip is what makes it slightly different from standard intel.

I don’t know if socket 1700 would put people off upgrading, I doubt it because if you need the upgrade then socket 1200 or AM4 is fine, but it’s odd to have it announced so soon.

SinTex · 16 Jul 2020 at 19:58

When is the next shipment of stock coming in plz :-)

Spuddy · 17 Jul 2020 at 15:11

Considering ordering one of these and a cheap cpu then upgrade to Ryzen 4000 series when they're released.

But, does anyone know if AMD will be releasing X670 motherboards?

I don't NEED to upgrade right now. So I can wait if there will be a benefit in that respect.

jimferno · 17 Jul 2020 at 21:37

Spuddy said:
Considering ordering one of these and a cheap cpu then upgrade to Ryzen 4000 series when they're released.

But, does anyone know if AMD will be releasing X670 motherboards?

I don't NEED to upgrade right now. So I can wait if there will be a benefit in that respect.

Do you need the upgrade?
Can you afford the upgrade?
Does the upgrade provide a substantial performance increase or allow you access to required features?

I'd imagine AMD will release X670 alongside Zen3 but I can't imagine it being much more feature rich than X570.

If you don't need a new mb or cpu I'd wait.