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Upgrade, nearly here 5900x or 5950x.

bru said:
I did spend a good long time trying to decide which board to get and in the end it came down to which one came into stock first this board or the gaming X one, I've had the board for about a month and a half now, just waiting for the CPU's.
As for the Gigabit networking, the hole network is only Gigabit so that wouldn't make any difference.

Looking forward to the build and the upgrade overall.
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I think you'll be more than happy :) i would update the BIOS as soon as you can, there are a lot of good features that you don't get with early revisions of AMD's BIOS.
 
subbytna said:
Your m.2 is gen 3? What's the point of x570 if you're not using Gen 4?
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One of them is, the bottom one takes its lanes from the chip set which is PCIe 3, the top one takes its lanes from the CPU, that one is PCIe 4.

Unless you're using more than one PCIe 4 SSD there is no point in X570 over B550 they are otherwise identical, sometimes B550 are a bit better as they are newer revisions. For example my Aorus Elite is 'V2'

X570 Chip Sets are AMD's own, B550 are ASMedia.
 
bru said:
Ok finally pulled the pin on this upgrade.

Its taken me ages to get it all sorted, but I've finally done it.

Gonna be leaving the water cooled xenon 5650 behind, and moving back to air and over to AMD for the first time since back in the Thunderbird days with the cheeky pencil mod. :cool: Those were the days.
Leaving out the optical drive as well, seeing as I haven't used it in ages, the missus has one if I need it.

I suppose I could move the Xenon/MB/Memory on the MM, it might even fetch a reasonable price?

Only fair to say that not all parts were purchased from OCUK.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,256.86 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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humbug said:
One of them is, the bottom one takes its lanes from the chip set which is PCIe 3, the top one takes its lanes from the CPU, that one is PCIe 4.

Unless you're using more than one PCIe 4 SSD there is no point in X570 over B550 they are otherwise identical, sometimes B550 are a bit better as they are newer revisions. For example my Aorus Elite is 'V2'

X570 Chip Sets are AMD's own, B550 are ASMedia.
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Sorry @humbug I forgot to quote the above person, it was him I was asking, he got a Gen 3 WD blue m.2
 
subbytna said:
Your m.2 is gen 3? What's the point of x570 if you're not using Gen 4?
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Assuming that was directed at me.( edit: ah yes i see it was :))

I decided to go with a cheap NVME drive for now, as 30% more for one with a write cache, or %90 more for a gen 4 drive isn't worth it at the moment.
Coming from SATA2 speeds it will seem amazing fast anyway and You only get those super fast speeds when you have something to copy from that can also do those fast speeds, which of course x570 can do latter down the line.
I have a feeling that with the new consoles both having ultra fast storage options, high speed drives will become more needed as time goes on.
 
Right, PICe Gen 4 SSD's are little more use than PCIe 4 GPU's.

If you're a Video Editor and scrubbing through a lot of 4K footage the Gen 4 SSD will be much smoother, if you're transferring a lot of files around Gen 4 is much faster.

For gaming, which is what most of us here are interested in a Gen 4 SSD is not noticeably better than even a SATA SSD, you could no doubt measure a difference in load times but its a seconds vs seconds.

In the future when games are coded for a lot more mass storage streaming (RE: @bru Console reference) a Gen 4 SSD will come in to its own but that's years away.
 
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