What motherboard for 5700x 3d?

Katoom · 2024-11-05T19:27:51+0000

Hi all.

I'm thinking of an upgrade from my Intel.
As title, any advice on a good (cheapish) board and ram (32Gb) to pair with a 5700x 3D?

Not looking to overclock, though would be nice to maybe have something to tweak.

Rob_B · 2024-11-05T19:49:03+0000

B450/550 and you'd get away with 3200MT/s RAM, faster will work but the performance increase is low single digits assuming gaming use case. To be fair even an A520 would probably be fine if you're on a tight budget.

So, what's your use case and budget ?

Tetras · 2024-11-05T20:06:23+0000

If you are upgrading from an old system, do you really want to buy into AM4? The 7600 is generally quite close (depends on the game) and you can get pretty cheap B650 boards now.

This is the cheapest B550 board I can see in stock:

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Asus TUF Gaming B550-Plus WIFI II (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6HX-AS) = £106.00
1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit (CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18) (SKU: MY-4CL-CS) = £49.99

Total: £159.98 (includes delivery: £3.99)

Katoom · 2024-11-05T20:31:30+0000

Rob_B said:
B450/550 and you'd get away with 3200MT/s RAM, faster will work but the performance increase is low single digits assuming gaming use case. To be fair even an A520 would probably be fine if you're on a tight budget.

So, what's your use case and budget ?

Just light infrequent gaming. Some of the titles, I'm cpu bound.

Tetras said:
If you are upgrading from an old system, do you really want to buy into AM4? The 7600 is generally quite close (depends on the game) and you can get pretty cheap B650 boards now.

This is the cheapest B550 board I can see in stock:

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Asus TUF Gaming B550-Plus WIFI II (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6HX-AS) = £106.00

1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit (CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18) (SKU: MY-4CL-CS) = £49.99

Total: £159.98 (includes delivery: £3.99)

I haven't looked into AM5 tbh. Maybe I need to.

Tetras · 2024-11-05T20:41:02+0000

Katoom said:
I haven't looked into AM5 tbh. Maybe I need to.

The X3D does have advantages in some games, but AM5 would give you much better future upgradability and hopefully there will be some deals on the 7600, 7700 or 9600.

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DW-AM) = £179.99
1 x Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03573) = £134.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLABD532G6000HC38ADC01) (SKU: MY-0B2-TG) = £89.98

Total: £404.96 (includes delivery: £0.00)