X670E-F or B650E-E Whats differences? Worth the extra money?

[PaulW]

Hi

i am stuck with which one to go with , i mostly do 3D work for games dev and i am looking to pair it all with a 4080 for work and playing games.
what are the main differences between the two and is the X670E-F worth the extra money?
i read the PCI-E lanes are different would this make a difference? i think the X670E-F has 44 and the B650E-E has 36.

Thanks and happy Saturday

Paul

 

[PaulW]

First of all thanks everyone for replaying I will read all this in the morning after a strong cup of coffee and reply with any other questions.

I'm pretty sure everyone has seen the direction GPU coolers have been going

Monk you are right, card coolers are getting larger and louder and i have a hunch in a few years they will go the way of water cooled in much the same way as we have AIO's for CPU's now. You would buy the card and fit the AIO water cooler on it. i recon its the only way forward for the industry or we will have a cooler the size of the case itself.

 

[PaulW]

someone on another site was saying that the X670E-F board does not have the 25100 M.2 sockets that the new gigabyte Mobos have. can anyone tell what the advantage 25100 M.2 sockets would be to have over the Gen 5 ones on the X670E-F i am not that uptodate on this.