Which motherboard for 9800X3D?

[Quartz]

Spec me!

I have an Intel 13700. This is, of course, a ticking time-bomb. The obvious thing to do is replace it with a 9800X3D when they become available, which will require a new motherboard. It will need three x4 M.2 slots (1x 1 TB, 2x 4 TB). Format is ATX.

I have 10 Gb ethernet so the board needs to support that directly or have a slot into which I can plug an ethernet card (PCIe v4 x4, Intel X550), but that card needs to be at least 4 slots distant from the GPU slot as I have a RTX 4090.

I'm not too fussed as to the speed of the M.2 slots but the GPU slot needs to be PCIe v5.0 for future GPU support.

 

[Quartz]

what is your budget?

Substantial. Obviously I realise that boards with 10 Gb NICs onboard will be much more expensive, but if that's the best way to go then so be it.

 

[Quartz]

if money is no issue,

I'm not paying silly prices. At that price I'm better off waiting for the X3D Threadrippers and getting a 16-core Threadripper X3D with a supporting motherboard.

but check if there is enough space for the 10GB card.

This is the big issue.

 

[Quartz]

This is mine, I'm happy with it

https://pg.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B650E%20PG%20Riptide%20WiFi/index.asp

The third M.2 socket is only PCIe v3 x2 - super-slow.

 

[Quartz]

2GB a second is slow?

The M.2 drive will handily exceed that.

 

[Quartz]

Thanks everyone. Plenty of choices, it seems. Just got to wait for the CPU to get back in stock.

Buy a board without 10Gb and use your existing Intel NIC.

Ah, but on many boards there isn't sufficient room between the primary GPU slot and the second slot to cope with a 4-slot GPU.

 

[Quartz]

Any specific reason you need 10Gb?

It's 10x faster and I've become accustomed to the speed.

I ask because the X550 is more of an enterprise grade NIC for 10GbE rather than a consumer NIC.

I got them cheap.

 

[Quartz]

Why stop at 10?

Moar speed!

It's not just a question of NICs. There's the switches too and those aren't that cheap.

 

[Quartz]

I've now gifted you this information and you'll break one day.

Maybe.

 

[Quartz]

Of course it is. 10Gb is already daft.

Not really. I just don't want to wait so long while I'm blatting TB of data across my network.

 

[Quartz]

Also worth mentioning that a lot of boards share some PCIe lanes between one of the M.2 slots and a PCIe slot. O

Yes, I picked that up early on.