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RYZEN 5000 SERIES NOW ONLINE - 5950X, 5900X, 5800X & 5600X COMING NOV 5TH AT 5PM **NO COMPETITORS**
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Can be significantly cheaper... and no fan!
But seriously, The B550 offers PCIe 4.0 on the primary graphics card and one of the M.2 slots. That's enough PCIe 4.0 for most users. The secondary M.2 only runs at PCEe 3.0 and there's the SATA. The extra PCIe 4.0 of the X570 is unnecessary for the majority of users. The B550 only supports Zen 2 and 3 CPUs so Zen+ is left out in the cold (no Zen+ APUs).
Unless you need more than one PCIe 4.0 GPU and drive, or you need support for Zen+ CPUs, the B550 has you covered for £50+ less.
Who knows how many pcie 4.0 we will need in the future.Can be significantly cheaper... and no fan!
But seriously, The B550 offers PCIe 4.0 on the primary graphics card and one of the M.2 slots. That's enough PCIe 4.0 for most users. The secondary M.2 only runs at PCEe 3.0 and there's the SATA. The extra PCIe 4.0 of the X570 is unnecessary for the majority of users. The B550 only supports Zen 2 and 3 CPUs so Zen+ is left out in the cold (no Zen+ APUs).
Unless you need more than one PCIe 4.0 GPU and drive, or you need support for Zen+ CPUs, the B550 has you covered for £50+ less.
Hopefully my x570 and soon (with luck) 5000 series cpu and ram will last 8 odd years
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In two weeks the 5800x will still cost £50 more than a 3900x, for most people the 5800x is probably still a better choice but I do think the pricing is off on that SKU. For me, when I game on a 2600 I am almost never CPU bound at 1440p but some of the work I do is absolutely core/thread bound. As an aside the 5900 & 5950 will still have cross chiplet latency issues
That's the crux of it really, b550 gives you a 16x PCIE4 for your GPU and another 4x PCIE4 for your SSD. That's enough for most people. If you need more than that, it's arguable to go down the HEDT route with Threadripper.
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there's a distinction between supports and works. i'm on b550 and zen+
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Im with you mate.
For the price of a decent B550 you might as well do the job properly and go X570.
I went for the X570 Aorus Master for my next build.
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Me to x570 Aorus elite here looking at keeping a few years
This arrived earlier. Nice and black, no flashing crap. Brilliant 
Unfortunately it's gone under the bed for couple of weeks until CPUs and reviews are out for RAM decision
Delivery 2 days ahead of schedule (only paid standard delivery, arrived today)
Unfortunately it's gone under the bed for couple of weeks until CPUs and reviews are out for RAM decision
Delivery 2 days ahead of schedule (only paid standard delivery, arrived today)
Caporegime
Planning to play hard and stay silent Guest2? No shame in it.This arrived earlier. Nice and black, no flashing crap. Brilliant
Unfortunately it's gone under the bed for couple of weeks until CPUs and reviews are out for RAM decision
Delivery 2 days ahead of schedule (only paid standard delivery, arrived today)
But CPU requirements will surely go up with the Zen 2 consoles. If you want to have better than console framerates, you'll likely want CPU overhead.
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Great looking board, hope it's a good'un.This arrived earlier. Nice and black, no flashing crap. Brilliant
Unfortunately it's gone under the bed for couple of weeks until CPUs and reviews are out for RAM decision
Delivery 2 days ahead of schedule (only paid standard delivery, arrived today)
Associate
Nice combo, should see some great results.
Nice, I looked at the Aorus master but was a bit over my price range. Audio did read up as being better but higher cost made me think if the onboard is poo I could grab a DAC / pcie soundcard in future
Was this the RAM you got? I almost ordered that too but wasnt sure if I should wait for reviews to see if AMD say 4000mhz / other is better or worse than 3600mhz. Might to order it so im all ready to go (CPU pending of course)
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...00c16-3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-my-002-8p.html
I saw it at £314, so I thought I may as well. I was swayed by the the quality of the VRMs and the fact it has enough usb 2/3/3.2 headers for my use case. I use a Toslink cable and S/PDIF for audio, which is just analogue passthrough, so that aspect of the board is wasted on me.
That's the RAM I got, although it was £199.99 when I bought it! I got it a little while ago, but I'm not concerned about the speeds. It should do 3800Mhz without much troubles and 4000Mhz if I loosen the timings a bit. I'll have to check the reviews to see whether or not I should favour speed or timings.
Strictly no groaning, grunting, moaning, screaming or whimpering while he plays hardPlanning to play hard and stay silent Guest2? No shame in it.
No. I'll always go highest performance, even if noisyStrictly no groaning, grunting, moaning, screaming or whimpering while he plays hard
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Honestly pricing is much bigger on many. My Auros Pro B550 was £120 new, the x570 version is £230. £110 for two less pcie 4.0 devices seems a no brainer. The pcie5, DDR5 will be out till you saturate anything pcie 4 in terms of gaming.
I agree. Earlier this year there wasn't enough of a gap between B550 and X570 pricing, but that's no longer the case even for good boards.
I got a Asus ROG Strix B550-F for £145 with a bundled Strix Impact 2 mouse. Loads less than the equivalent X570.
I’ve already got 1x m2 and plan on getting another for OS (clone to m2)