Hi all,
I've been an Asus Crosshair Hero VI X370 owner since the early days of Ryzen, initially with it hosting a Ryzen 7 1700x. These days, after a bios update, it's sporting a funky new Ryzen 7 5700X3D which was quite the upgrade from a first gen chip.
Currently I have this paired with Radeon RX 6800 and am very tempted to upgrade to a Radeon RX 9070 XT, however I've heard on some forums that this motherboard is simply too old to cope and will end up with a stuttering framerate. I know the board is only on PCIe 3.0, however GamersNexus recently tested the various PCIe generations with a GeForce RTX 5090, and it showed little or no impact (5% slower)
So, what I'd like to discuss is whether this is a sensible upgrade, does anybody see problems on the horizon for me. Does anybody have direct experience of using this or a similar combination? Do we agree that the posts I've read on other forums are just some berk on the internet who doesn't know very much
For clarity, my current specification can be viewed on pc part picker here:
Cheers,
Rob.
I've been an Asus Crosshair Hero VI X370 owner since the early days of Ryzen, initially with it hosting a Ryzen 7 1700x. These days, after a bios update, it's sporting a funky new Ryzen 7 5700X3D which was quite the upgrade from a first gen chip.
Currently I have this paired with Radeon RX 6800 and am very tempted to upgrade to a Radeon RX 9070 XT, however I've heard on some forums that this motherboard is simply too old to cope and will end up with a stuttering framerate. I know the board is only on PCIe 3.0, however GamersNexus recently tested the various PCIe generations with a GeForce RTX 5090, and it showed little or no impact (5% slower)
So, what I'd like to discuss is whether this is a sensible upgrade, does anybody see problems on the horizon for me. Does anybody have direct experience of using this or a similar combination? Do we agree that the posts I've read on other forums are just some berk on the internet who doesn't know very much

For clarity, my current specification can be viewed on pc part picker here:
https://************.com/user/bathrobe/saved/GTsGxr
Cheers,
Rob.
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