What motherboard for 5700x 3d?

[Katoom]

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.

 

[Katoom]

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.

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.

 

[Katoom]

If you don't have the 5700x3d already and want to buy new then yeah maybe spend a little more and go AM5.

Going 2nd hand you'd save with AM4 but be at a dead end, what do you have now?

Got a 6600k @4.2, so anything really is an upgrade.

The AM5 looks the way to go.
Thanks.

Edit.
Just ordered.
Thanks all.

 

[Katoom]

I went for the Giga B650m Gaming as it was in stock, also the 7600x, with the ram that was posted.

Too late now, but any potential issues?

 

[Katoom]

The 7600x doesn't come with a stock cooler the 7600 does so you will have to get one if not already..

Had the Noctua 92.
Thanks.

 

[Katoom]

All running sweet! Quite a difference from my 6600K.

Updated bios, then sat for ages staring at the AMI screen before googling it, then pressing Y.


Any issues running in ECO mode? The power and temps fly up on normal.

 

[Katoom]

Define fly up?
Have you tried CO yet?

At about 40% load it's touching 78-80 degrees, I think I peaks at around 82.
Might be normal for these Zen cpu's?

CO?