Not to fussed about that. Does it make any difference if I just game?
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Not to fussed about that. Does it make any difference if I just game?
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Direct storage is coming soon and will begin to be implemented into games. So a gen 4 M2 drive is more of a future proof option for you. And they don't cost a whole lot more than gen 3 now. So you want to be looking at b550 boards. You'll get one gen4 m.2 off the CPU and the 2nd is off the chipset and gen 3.
Ah, knew nothing about this. I've been out of the loop for a long time. wife, kids, work getting in the way
and I've not had a PC for 3 years. Is there anything that you would recommend that will do the job but also usually sells at a good price?
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Does it need to be matx or ATX? And what's your budget?Ah, knew nothing about this. I've been out of the loop for a long time. wife, kids, work getting in the way
Is there anything that you would recommend that will do the job but also usually sells at a good price?
ATX. No budget. Cheaper the better. I just want something that will run it really.
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Thanks for the help. I'll probably grab the cheaper one if it will do the job.
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Ye, just update to the lastest bios with the new 1.2.0.7 coding and new chipset driver from from AMD.com and you'll be good to go.
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B550 Tomahawk at just over £100.
I know you said ATX, but thought I'd chip in anyway... I'm currently on the Gigabyte B450 DS3H with the 5900x and even though it probably don't have as many bells and whistles as more expensive options but it was good enough when it helped me placing the R5 3600 as - was it 2nd or 3rd - don't remember - 3600 in the multithread Cinebench benchmark thread here.
Currently looking at "upgrading" to the B550M DS3H for my 5900x so I have a mb for my good ol 3600.as well...
Currently looking at "upgrading" to the B550M DS3H for my 5900x so I have a mb for my good ol 3600.as well...
Would a tomahawk max 2 do the job for a 5900x
Thing is. I found someone selling a 5990x cheap as chips. Now I'm picking it up from there house so if there is something wrong it's going back. But wanted to pick up a cheap board just to test it. Then I was thinking of selling it and getting maybe be a 5800x or even just disabling some core if that can be done. Want need all them core or the beat to go with it.
Thing is. I found someone selling a 5990x cheap as chips. Now I'm picking it up from there house so if there is something wrong it's going back. But wanted to pick up a cheap board just to test it. Then I was thinking of selling it and getting maybe be a 5800x or even just disabling some core if that can be done. Want need all them core or the beat to go with it.
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A 5900x uses no more power out of the box than a 2700x. 12nm to 7nm power savings. 4 cores within the same power. A 5950x is better binned silicon so 16 cores at the same power. Are you planning on just running the CPU at our of the box settings?
Yeah I'll run it at stock.
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Curve optimiser might be an option if you wanted to run it as lean as possible. Ryzen master has it built in to save hours of manual testing. It tests all the cores over almost 2 hours and sets them at less voltage to run cooler at stock speeds. Which cooler where you planning on using?
It will be on water eventually. But will a stock cooler be ok for testing? Once I know the chip is good, I'll then look at either selling and downgrading it. Or I'll put it on water and get a better board. If all is well it will be for my son's birthday. I have a 12700k thats ready to build
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Play the OCUK B-grade lottery lol.
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Play the OCUK B-grade lottery lol.
If I knew this CPU was good I would probably buy that. But I've found a b450 tomahawk max 2 for £40 so if that will do? It's not a big loss of i end up stuck with that or need to sell that on.
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If you purely need budget right now, sure.
But if you want to keep what you're building for a few years, I'd try and squeeze PCIe 4.0 into the mix. NVMe 4.0 storage will be dropping in price a good bit in the coming years.
Then again, if you want something to get you up and running just now and don't mind buying another mobo in a year or something, that's fine as well.
Oh, if you don't mind, could you explain briefly how to do that ? Currently I simply manually lower the PPT (and nothing else) to curb my 5900X's appetite for pulling as much vcore as it can on 12 thread loads.
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Also just recently got a 5900x, I ran Ryzen master and curve optimizer and it set every core.to.-29. 
Do I now have to either set that In the bios or run RM every boot
Do I now have to either set that In the bios or run RM every boot