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Processor | AMD Ryzen 3800X / AMD 8350 |
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Motherboard | ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X / Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 Revision 3.0 |
Cooling | Stock / Corsair H100 |
Memory | 32GB / 24GB |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire RX 6800 / AMD Radeon 290X (Toggling until 6950XT) |
Storage | C:\ 1TB SSD, D:\ RAID-1 1TB SSD, 2x4TB-RAID-1 |
Display(s) | Samsung U32E850R |
Case | be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Black rev. 2 / Fractal Design |
Audio Device(s) | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi |
Power Supply | EVGA Supernova 1300G2 / EVGA Supernova 850G+ |
Mouse | Logitech M-U0007 |
Keyboard | Logitech G110 / Logitech G110 |
In about three weeks I'll be replacing my old 8350 rig that is eight years old and served me well. I'm going to be getting a 3800X which according to CPUz will double my single and multicore performance (roughly) and I'm very much looking forward to that!
TLDR:
I've had a bit of trouble finding a motherboard that I really want. I absolutely do not want WIFI as my rig will be relatively close to me and I don't wan to burn my flesh with EMF microwave radiation. Unfortunately some nob at Newegg decided all the X570 motherboards must have WIFI. "You can just turn it off" NOPE! Because it's politics pushing it's way in where it doesn't belong I presume that the WIFI is always on even if you explicitly set it to off like a story about a modem I came across recently. Besides, real men use Ethernet and don't poison themselves of their loved ones.
Another thing that I really loathe is seeing Intel-anything on AMD / AMD related products. Every objective and knowledgeable person here knows that Intel intentionally prevents upgrades and makes people have to do rebuilds instead (replacing a motherboard is not an upgrade, that is a rebuild) because if you look at any Intel motherboard (by any brand) you're going to see a lot of chips labeled as Intel. I really do not want to give Intel a penny because they don't deserve my money and those vendors should know better!
I'm running 7 hard drives and I'm working to consolidate that so the eight SATA port requirement means I'll have to use external adapters until my budget allows me to convert the internal 1TB 2.5 SSDs to NVMe drives. No one had affordable 8TB+ drives eight years ago and I have not heard anything but nightmare stories with NAS such as 10 megabyte read speeds, drive capacity limitations and other nonsense. Eventually once SSDs hit 16TB I will reduce the drive count down to three (C:\ 1x, D:\ 2x RAID 1) though we're still a bit of a ways from that if you don't want to spend more than a grand for something along those lines.
I've been to Gigabyte, ASRock and MSI's websites and the options are a little limited and a bit compromised. Maybe I missed someone else (not including Asus). Suggestions please?
TLDR:
- Eight SATA ports would be very helpful until I can knock my SATA consumption down from 10 by switching to some NVMe drives or merging the 2x 4TB RAID 1s (4 drives total just for that). Might be able to get a couple 12TB drives in three weeks, we'll see how well my finances work out.
- No WIFI (slot for WIFI with removable or missing WIFI is okay though).
- No Intel anything (e.g. a lot of vendors are using Intel nics on the X570 boards, not cool).
- Must have three (or more) NVMe slots that I will be populating with 2TB Samsung SSDs in the coming months (I don't care about migrating them to an addon card, I'm trying to reduce my SATA port number down from ten).
- With a single double-slot video card the board must have at least four usable PCI-Express slots (max on seven slot with two cards can be up to five). I like having a dedicated audio card (quad channel music while I work and an extra slot of two as needs arise).
- No Asus, I had to choose between RAID or USB and they replaced my brand new $400 motherboard with used garbage covered in...well, lets just say they're never getting any business from me again.
I've had a bit of trouble finding a motherboard that I really want. I absolutely do not want WIFI as my rig will be relatively close to me and I don't wan to burn my flesh with EMF microwave radiation. Unfortunately some nob at Newegg decided all the X570 motherboards must have WIFI. "You can just turn it off" NOPE! Because it's politics pushing it's way in where it doesn't belong I presume that the WIFI is always on even if you explicitly set it to off like a story about a modem I came across recently. Besides, real men use Ethernet and don't poison themselves of their loved ones.
Another thing that I really loathe is seeing Intel-anything on AMD / AMD related products. Every objective and knowledgeable person here knows that Intel intentionally prevents upgrades and makes people have to do rebuilds instead (replacing a motherboard is not an upgrade, that is a rebuild) because if you look at any Intel motherboard (by any brand) you're going to see a lot of chips labeled as Intel. I really do not want to give Intel a penny because they don't deserve my money and those vendors should know better!
I'm running 7 hard drives and I'm working to consolidate that so the eight SATA port requirement means I'll have to use external adapters until my budget allows me to convert the internal 1TB 2.5 SSDs to NVMe drives. No one had affordable 8TB+ drives eight years ago and I have not heard anything but nightmare stories with NAS such as 10 megabyte read speeds, drive capacity limitations and other nonsense. Eventually once SSDs hit 16TB I will reduce the drive count down to three (C:\ 1x, D:\ 2x RAID 1) though we're still a bit of a ways from that if you don't want to spend more than a grand for something along those lines.
I've been to Gigabyte, ASRock and MSI's websites and the options are a little limited and a bit compromised. Maybe I missed someone else (not including Asus). Suggestions please?