x670e recommendations

pdhenin

pdhenin

pdhenin

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Hi All,

Currently have an RMA open to return my TUF Gaming X670E-Plus due to a strange bug when doing "Save & Exit" in the bios can anyone recommend another board? I'm tempted to just grab another one of the same. The ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO is £30 more but looks like the same board. I did like the look of the Tomahawk board but the reviews say it's audio is not as good.

I want to stick with x670e just for Gen 5 on M.2 and PCI-E

I have an 7800x3d and 32GB G Skill Trident Z5 Neo (2 X 16)

Any recommendations?
 
MSI X670E Gaming Plus is a bit cheaper than the TUF, but likely worse audio than the Tomahawk.

If you're an audiophile I'd expect you're much better off with a separate soundcard as said above.

On paper, a board like the Strix X670E-F has superior audio to both of those boards and includes an integrated amp and rear spdif, but I wouldn't want to pay £100 for it..
 
Genuine question - are DAC really so good or is a high level sound chip really necessary? I've been using Nvidia HDMI Audio for years with no complaints.

As for the 870 boards there's not a lot of detail released yet only ASUS and Gigabyte have shown their full line ups (which are now on their websites). I believe the only other companies that will have boards on release day (beginning of October as the review embargo lifts 30th September) are Asrock and MSI. From what I have seen some of the boards aren't worth the cost (eg only one pcie5 M2) and while they are all better than x670, I'm not sure any additional cost over x670 is worth it for the extra features

Depends on how much they will cost. For example when the Gigabyte Aorus elite x670 was released it was around £350, but its only £220 now. I expect the 870's to be £350ish again
 
Varys said:
Genuine question - are DAC really so good or is a high level sound chip really necessary? I've been using Nvidia HDMI Audio for years with no complaints.
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If you have quality speakers / headphones you want a one of the above the difference is massive imo . There's no point in having a decent sound card while using budget speakers as they will be limited.

My experience.

Used onboard sound and kept upgrading my speakers over time from £20 budget to £50 creative speakers, while the sound was ok I always fancied a sound card to see if it was worth. Bought a creative x fi extreme gamer and it Certainly made a difference using the £50 speakers.

So next time I wanted to upgrade my sound I purchased £250 Logitech Z5500 speakers and wow what a massive difference quality speakers made. I could hear sounds and clarity that I couldn't on the cheaper speakers and so could the whole street as they could pump out the volume.

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pdhenin said:
Hi All,

Currently have an RMA open to return my TUF Gaming X670E-Plus due to a strange bug when doing "Save & Exit" in the bios can anyone recommend another board? I'm tempted to just grab another one of the same. The ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO is £30 more but looks like the same board. I did like the look of the Tomahawk board but the reviews say it's audio is not as good.

I want to stick with x670e just for Gen 5 on M.2 and PCI-E

I have an 7800x3d and 32GB G Skill Trident Z5 Neo (2 X 16)

Any recommendations?
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I’d recommend not worrying about pci-e 5.0 too much since it really doesn’t have much of a benefit than 4.0.

5.0 only helps if you’re doing very intensive data transfers eg video editing and even then, I’d rather spend money on a 10gig LAN port to allow faster transfers between a dedicated NAS storage device.

Onboard audio is fine but I’d rather get a cheaper motherboard and a USB DAC like the Ifi Zen DAC (which I own and is excellent).

I’ve carried that DAC through several upgrades and I use it for my laptop now as I don’t game as much these days.

What you could get is a dedicated overclocking motherboard that has 2 DIMM slots instead of 4, an LED POST display and decent VRMs (not that AMD really needs that).

Edit; ok so you have a rough budget of £250 which is less than I thought you had but you’d still be better off with a board that doesn’t focus too much on PCI-e 5.0.
 
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Varys said:
Depends on how much they will cost. For example when the Gigabyte Aorus elite x670 was released it was around £350, but its only £220 now. I expect the 870's to be £350ish again
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I hope not as even the current pricing seems a bit high so it will be a backwards step if X870 costs that much considering your only getting USB4 and some QOL improvements.
 
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