X370/470/570 PCIe 4.0 Help me understand.

wakadoo · 27 May 2019 at 15:11

After reading what i can find i am not really understanding any better what i initially started out to learn.

So a few questions from me and i hope you can clear things up.

1. I understand some motherboards are getting a bios update to support the new Ryzen processors, But
i have read that it may also allow pcie 4.0 support as well, will it be a limited form of support.

2. If the ryzen processors have 40 lanes, will it still use 40 lanes in a lower than x570 motherboard.

3. If all the new x570 motherboards have a cooling fan on them, and a bios update allows an x470 to
do more or less the same, would a cooling fan need to be fitted to the x470 motherboard.

3. Should i just get an x570 motherboard and forget all about the x470.

thank you.

wakadoo · 27 May 2019 at 22:10

Could the PCIe 4 nvme stuff that is due to launch use it right away.

wakadoo · 28 May 2019 at 14:31

orbitalwalsh said:
OP- unless you have a high end X470 Board, Say Aorus Gaming 7- that comes with current latest wifi, high ram speed support and VRMs that can handle same power load as X570 flagships ( just in a different way) then stay with it, or pick it up when prices drop .

or just get entry x570 with features that should blow most x470/b450 out the water and should start at £115 base range

orbitalwalsh i have the Gigabyte Aorus 7 Gaming wifi, good shout lol,

i really want to keep it and just drop in a new cpu, i was quite late to the ryzen party so did not get top end as i wanted to be up and
running and just wait to drop in a new gen one.

wakadoo · 28 May 2019 at 15:30

orbitalwalsh said:
I have the Aorus 7 and its fine enough. Posted up Buildzoids VRM breakdown of x470 Master (7) and X570 Master - both handle 600 amps across the Vcore so if you want to drop in a 16 core later on you'll be fine . Just X570 power delivery is better and cooler . You'll notice Aorus ditched the Hybrid Heatsink Block and fin design of Z390 to go with all Fins like x470 .

Can run PCIe 4.0 on the GPU slot if your slapping Ryzen 3*** with latest bios , but no fancy m.2's

smashing, thank you.

wakadoo · 16 Jun 2019 at 17:53

the new ryzens are to have better memory support, will that be on just the new boards or on the b450/x470 as well.

or is the memory support just to do with the processor and nothing to do with the motherboards.