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Looking 4 a Solid AM5 MB?

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blueturtle

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Years back I had an MSI X570 build the system was extremely solid, unlike my current POS Intel (Alder Lake/12th Gen) & Asus B760(1700) build...

Im looking for a MB under $300. Min two M2 slots(PCIe 4 is fine) and PCIe 5 for the GPU(single), and 4 stata (3.5 HDD's. RAID 5/10)

Example build:
16core Ryzen
96GB DDR5
40-50TB's useable 3.5 hdd, reads more than 500GB/s
two M2 Samsungs pro
Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell 4500
https://www.pny.com/nvidia-rtx-pro-4500-blackwell
 
What country is your domicile in?
 
Maybe Gigabyte or Biostar? Both Asus and Asrock are garbage since they kill Ryzen cpu's, MSI have problem making decent bios.
 
There are lots of good options, a quick search found these:

X870
B850
X670
B650
 
Knight47 said:
Maybe Gigabyte or Biostar? Both Asus and Asrock are garbage since they kill Ryzen cpu's, MSI have problem making decent bios.
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What a total uninformed and biased post. To anyone who reads it, ignore that post.
 
Only thing wrong with ASRock is competitor's flooding the forums with fake allegations imho.

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Open Box: ASRock B650E TAICHI AM5 EATX Motherboard, 4 slots DDR5, PCIE 5.0 x16, 3 M.2 slots, 2.5Gb Lan,WIFI 6E, HDMI 2.1 port, 5.1 audio ALC4082, 2 USB4 Thunderbolt Type-C 24+2+1 Power Phase, 8 layer PCB - Newegg.com

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I have a X870E Taichi and love it.

6 SATA Ports
3 4.0 M2 slots
3 5.0 M2 slots (with add in card)

You could actually do Raid 5 on the SATA ports. Unlike most AM5 boards there is no lane splitting on this board. What is the best though is if you want that type of flexibility from Asus, Gigabyte or MSI you need to pay up to $200 more. As far as the propaganda campaign that some people are quoting. There was an article posted yesterday that As Rock had updated their BIOS to 3.20. I bought a 9900X3D at launch and updated the BiIOS on Mar 14. It was the same BIOS. The only thing aboout As Rock is that the BIOS is a little less intuitive and more spartan than offerings from the others. If that is too expensive the Lite is also good.
 
You'll probably have to check which (if any) support RAID 5. Outside of that I'd suggest looking at the MSI X670E or X870E Tomahawk or potentially an Asus Prime X670E-Pro if there's a good deal on it - you'll lose an M.2 slot with 4 SATA drives though. Generally higher end B850 or B650E are so close in price to X670E I don't see the point in picking them.
 
FWIW my MSI x670E Gaming Plus Wifi is a pretty solid board, and afaik it's one of the cheapest X670E boards out there.
 
I have a Strix X670E -F, it’s pretty decent.
 
I've used multiple Asrock boards...over the years..never really had an issue with them..

I started using them when Abit left the scene (Still miss that brand)
 
The folks at HardwareUnboxed/Techspot did review some X670 motherboards. Mostly VRM focused but you can check out the connectivity/expansion options yourself.
 
I have an AsRock X670e Steel Legend, and I like it a lot. It has been rock solid.
 
transdogmifier said:
I've used multiple Asrock boards...over the years..never really had an issue with them..

I started using them when Abit left the scene (Still miss that brand)
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My AM5 Asrock B650 Live Mixer turned out to be quite the deal with expansion slots for only $150 with an x16 and x4 from CPU + x4 from chipset but I won't lie I've been eyeballing Threadripper AsRock WRX80 Creator R2.0 and ASRock TRX50 WS combos on ebay for a bit over a week now just because of the disgusting lack of PCIe expansion card options among all AM5 motherboards. I almost dislike to go TRX50 because I have a 7950x already but I have a lot of DDR4 ECC that I can transplant onto that platform at no extra cost for a whopping 256GB 8 channel RAM where WRX80 cost is significantly higher. The Asrock X570 Taichi and especially the Asrock X570 Taichi Razor are really outstanding motherboards supporting 128GB ram and I'm glad I got one of each before they became unobtanium.

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I like what this offers.



Slightly over your budget but comes with a free 990 evo 1tb

I have the X670E PRO X and it has been pretty great it's pretty similar.


If you want to save some money the B850 live mixer is pretty nice.

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Asus has this but I like the above two boards in it's price range better they at least come with post codes and the Tomahawk has 5G lan.



Those are the 3 boards I would look at that kinda max out your budget and then I would look at the Asrock and see if what it offers is more than enough they will all handle a 9950X/9950X3D easily.

I'm not aware of any boards that support raid 5 but do your research. I have seen some reports of Asrock boards killing cpu's but do your own research on that Its likely over blow reddit threads but you never know.
 
blueturtle said:
Years back I had an MSI X570 build the system was extremely solid, unlike my current POS Intel (Alder Lake/12th Gen) & Asus B760(1700) build...

Im looking for a MB under $300. Min two M2 slots(PCIe 4 is fine) and PCIe 5 for the GPU(single), and 4 stata (3.5 HDD's. RAID 5/10)

Example build:
16core Ryzen
96GB DDR5
40-50TB's useable 3.5 hdd, reads more than 500GB/s
two M2 Samsungs pro
Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell 4500
https://www.pny.com/nvidia-rtx-pro-4500-blackwell
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If your open to ebay I came across this combo for another user but it might also interest you in it's totality based on your example build.
 
A Computer Guy said:
If your open to ebay I came across this combo for another user but it might also interest you in it's totality.
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That is a super solid deal but I am always skeptical when I don't know the person who owns the hardware. That is a couple bent pins from being a terrible deal.
 
oxrufiioxo said:
That is a super solid deal but I am always skeptical when I don't know the person who owns the hardware. That is a couple bent pins from being a terrible deal.
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Indeed it's not free from risk but ebay has the money back guarantee however I have managed not to need to use it so not sure how far it goes when you get into situations where the seller failed to note equipment as damaged.
 
There are no amd desktop chipsets that support raid 5 since am3+/FM2+.

If you need sata raid 5, sata raid cards can be had pretty cheap these days, and are a much better solution.

Highpoint RocketRaid 640L can be had for like 80 dollars.
 
A Computer Guy said:
Indeed it's not free from risk but ebay has the money back guarantee however I have managed not to need to use it so not sure how far it goes when you get into situations where the seller failed to note equipment as damaged.
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While true it can be a major hassle even if he has pictures of the socket while Ebay litigates.

I've had it go both ways in the past is probably why I'm a little more guarded thankfully I'm in California so local sales are typically pretty easy.
 
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