Starting my AM5 build

_roman_ · Feb 4, 2025

I also have the red one. IT was cheaper.

A little bit of paste get*S in between the red aluminum part and the processor.

I would not call it cosmetic. Less thermal paste where you do not want it. A better cpu socket. Picture was taken while changing from noctua to be quiet cpu tower cooler.

If the cpu is more flat in the socket I will not comment. Or if the aluminum around the processor acts a bit more as a passive cooler.

Definitely worth spending that ~10€

AleXXX666 · Feb 4, 2025

eidairaman1 said:
Have you looked at the Steel Legend line by AsRock?

well, I have had B560 Steel Legend. Well-priced, but low-to-mid-grade overall. A lot of fancy stickers and useLESS cr*p inside the box. I think their "PRO" line-up are better price-to-features...

AusWolf · Feb 4, 2025

I'm not sure if it has been suggested or not, but some models in MSi's Pro line of motherboards (the ones with VRM heatsinks) are actually quite good for the price.

With that said, I'm not doing any extreme overclocking, so my definition of "quite good" means running any CPU at stock, no excessive heat on the VRM, basic EXPO support, a decent BIOS, and enough USB ports.

de.das.dude · Feb 4, 2025

eidairaman1 said:
Have you looked at the Steel Legend line by AsRock?

I have good faith in ASrock. My Asrock 990FX Extreme 4 is still working... after 12 years of use and abuse. I have taken A B550 extreme 4 as well for my current machine lol.

AleXXX666 · Feb 4, 2025

AusWolf said:
I'm not sure if it has been suggested or not, but some models in MSi's Pro line of motherboards (the ones with VRM heatsinks) are actually quite good for the price.

With that said, I'm not doing any extreme overclocking, so my definition of "quite good" means running any CPU at stock, no excessive heat on the VRM, basic EXPO support, a decent BIOS, and enough USB ports.

yeah. Trashy design with sh*t-brown color, but does WELL HELL for the price lol.

AusWolf · Feb 4, 2025

AleXXX666 said:
yeah. Trashy design with sh*t-brown color, but does WELL HELL for the price lol.

Brown? Are we talking about the same thing?

freeagent · Feb 5, 2025

Big board for a big case :rockout:

Drool

Probably wont do it..

freeagent · Feb 8, 2025

Ok, got my new board today, came a day early

Not that it matters.. I don't have a CPU or ram picked out yet.

I was thinking 9900X3D and a set of C26 Royals whenever they make an appearance..

Dragam1337 · Feb 8, 2025

freeagent said:
Ok, got my new board today, came a day early

Not that it matters.. I don't have a CPU or ram picked out yet.

I was thinking 9900X3D and a set of C26 Royals whenever they make an appearance..

You'd be much better off with a 9800x3d if it's for gaming.

Edit: btw which board did you end up getting ?

freeagent · Feb 8, 2025

Dragam1337 said:
Edit: btw which board did you end up getting ?

I got this guy:

ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI | Gaming motherboards｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG Global

It was only about 50 bucks more than the 650E -F, and I can use all of my NVMe drives now heheh.

Dragam1337 · Feb 8, 2025

freeagent said:
I got this guy:

ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI | Gaming motherboards｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG Global

It was only about 50 bucks more than the 650E -F, and I can use all of my NVMe drives now heheh.

You got 4x nvme's ? But it's a nice board

freeagent · Feb 8, 2025

Dragam1337 said:
You got 4x nvme's ? But it's a nice board

I actually have 5, so I can use the bottom pcie slot too

Amazon had a sale awhile back on SN770 for 65 beaver bucks each, so I bought 3 lol..

This board is heavy lol.. to get the new model is almost twice the price, that is crazy and I am cheap.

Dragam1337 · Feb 8, 2025

freeagent said:
I actually have 5, so I can use the bottom pcie slot too

Amazon had a sale awhile back on SN770 for 65 beaver bucks each, so I bought 3 lol..

This board is heavy lol.. to get the new model is almost twice the price, that is crazy and I am cheap.

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Deffo not worth getting the new version - it's the same chipset just with a new name.

Just gotta flash bios with newest version before you boot up the system.

freeagent · Feb 8, 2025

Dragam1337 said:
Just gotta flash bios with newest version before you boot up the system.

I think she is 9000 ready to go out of the box.. only one way to find out

Dragam1337 · Feb 8, 2025

freeagent said:
I think she is 9000 ready to go out of the box.. only one way to find out

Lol

i would highly recommend flashing the newest bios prior to booting it up regardless though - countless of improvements, also to performance and stability

dgianstefani · Feb 8, 2025

9800/9950X3D, don't suffer with two 6 cores glued together unless you love manually setting process affinities.

Good choice with ASUS.

If you do buy GSKILL RAM, take it apart and put a thermal pad on the PMIC, none stock.

No need to buy GSKILL for C26 though, they're all the same die. Any A die will do 6000/26.

I did 6200/26 on M die.

freeagent · Feb 8, 2025

dgianstefani said:
9800/9950X3D, don't suffer with two 6 cores glued together unless you love manually setting process affinities.

Good choice with ASUS.

If you do buy GSKILL RAM, take it apart and put a thermal pad on the PMIC, none stock.

No need to buy GSKILL for C26 though, they're all the same die. Any A die will do 6000/26.

I did 6200/26 on M die.

Good to know, as I know nothing of DDR5..

Knowing this, any recommendations for ram?

Edit:

I love Asus boards my man, I cant buy anything else until they do me wrong

dgianstefani · Feb 8, 2025

freeagent said:
Good to know, as I know nothing of DDR5..

Knowing this, any recommendations for ram?

Edit:

I love Asus boards my man, I cant buy anything else until they do me wrong

Dominator Titanium 64 GB kits are good. I bought a 6600 Intel White kit.

For cheap it's hard to beat patriot extreme and team group.

Corsair for aesthetics and good RGB, other two for Price/Perf.

Dragam1337 · Feb 8, 2025

freeagent said:
Good to know, as I know nothing of DDR5..

Knowing this, any recommendations for ram?

Edit:

I love Asus boards my man, I cant buy anything else until they do me wrong

If you just want easymode setup, then asus bios has "expo tweaked" mode for gskill ryzen memory, where asus has done a pre-tuning of all the sub timings. It's quite a bit faster than standard expo mode in cpu bottlenecked scenarios in my testing.

dgianstefani · Feb 8, 2025

Since you're stuck in the 6000 MT range anyway for AMD, it's generally better to get dual rank sticks that have a lower frequency ceiling but better performance at iso freq/timings than single rank kits. So get 2*32 or 2*48.

Or one of those unicorn 2*16 dual rank kits but good luck finding.

freeagent · Feb 8, 2025

Ok looking now over dinner

dgianstefani · Feb 8, 2025

Grab a P1600X while you're at it for OS.

freeagent · Feb 9, 2025

dgianstefani said:
Grab a P1600X while you're at it for OS.

Ow.. I have 5x NVMe drives for a total of 6TB.. as much as I would like to.. ouch.

Maybe after GPU's are all launched and prices have normalized I will have a better idea of how much I really want to spend :laugh:

Kapone33 · Feb 9, 2025

As rock is my fave. They are so flexible. For example they are the only boards that support 120Hz on DP and HDMI on board ports. There is also the fact that the As Rock X870E Taichi is the cheapest high end board that has 2 PCIe lanes connected to the CPU.

dgianstefani · Feb 9, 2025

freeagent said:
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Ow.. I have 5x NVMe drives for a total of 6TB.. as much as I would like to.. ouch.

Maybe after GPU's are all launched and prices have normalized I will have a better idea of how much I really want to spend

That's not a P1600X.

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Processor	Intel Core i7-11800H \| Intel Core i5-14600K@135W \| Intel Core i3-10100
Motherboard	ASUS FX506HC \| Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 \| MSI MAG B560M Bazooka
Cooling	Laptop built-in cooling lol \| Thermalright Assassin Spirit w/ BeQuiet Shadow Wings fan\| Stock Copper
Memory	24 GB @ 3200 \| 32 GB @ 3733 \| 16 GB @ 3200
Video Card(s)	Nvidia RTX 3050 Mobile 4GB \| Nvidia GTX 1650 \| Nvidia GTX 960 2 GB
Storage	Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB \| Samsung M2 SSD 256 GB & 1 TB 2.5" HDD @ 7200\| SSD 250 GB & SSD 240 GB
Display(s)	Laptop built-in 144 Hz FHD screen \| Dell 27" WQHD @ 75 Hz & 49" TV FHD \| Samsung 32" TV FHD
Case	It's a laptop, it doesn't need case lmfao \| Deepcool Mattrexx 55 MESH \| Aerocool Cylon PRO
Audio Device(s)	laptop built in audio \| Logitech 2.1 speakers \| Logitech stereo speakers
Power Supply	ASUS 180W PSU \| SeaSonic Focus GX-550 \| SeaSonic M12II EVO 520W
Mouse	Logitech G604 \| Corsair Harpoon wired mouse\| Logitech G305
Keyboard	Laptop built-in keyboard \|Razer Blackwidow \| Steelseries APEX 7 TKL
VR HMD	Quest 2 sold out and don't need VR anymore lol
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 \| Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 & Ubuntu Mate 24.04.2\| Windows 11 24H2 LTSC
Benchmark Scores	good enough

System Name	My second and third PCs are Intel + Nvidia
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D @ 45 W TDP Eco Mode
Motherboard	MSi Pro B650M-A Wifi
Cooling	Noctua NH-D9L chromax.black
Memory	2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 CL36
Video Card(s)	PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT
Storage	2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 4 TB Seagate Barracuda
Display(s)	Dell S3422DWG 34" 1440 UW 144 Hz
Case	Corsair Crystal 280X
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 2.1 speakers, AKG Y50 headphones
Power Supply	750 W Seasonic Prime GX
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 2S
Keyboard	Logitech G413 SE
Software	Bazzite (Fedora Linux) KDE Plasma

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Processor	Ryzen 5600X \| Ryzen 5500U \| FX8320
Motherboard	ASRock B550 Extreme4 \| ? \| Asrock 990FX Extreme 4
Cooling	240mm Rad \| Not needed \| hyper 212 EVO
Memory	2x16GB DDR4 3600 Corsair RGB \| 16 GB DDR4 3600 \| 16GB DDR3 1600
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Storage	Samsung 980 nvme (Primary) \| some samsung SSD
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Case	Ant Esports Tempered case \| Thinkpad \| NZXT Guardian 921RB
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 \| Jabra corpo stuff \| Some USB speakers
Power Supply	Corsair RM750e \| not needed \| Corsair GS 600
Mouse	Logitech G400 \| nipple \| Dell
Keyboard	Logitech G213 \| stock kb is awesome \| Logitech K230
VR HMD	;_;
Software	Windows 10 Professional x3
Benchmark Scores	There are no marks on my bench

System Name	Laptop ASUS TUF F15 \| Desktop 1 \| Desktop 2
Processor	Intel Core i7-11800H \| Intel Core i5-14600K@135W \| Intel Core i3-10100
Motherboard	ASUS FX506HC \| Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 \| MSI MAG B560M Bazooka
Cooling	Laptop built-in cooling lol \| Thermalright Assassin Spirit w/ BeQuiet Shadow Wings fan\| Stock Copper
Memory	24 GB @ 3200 \| 32 GB @ 3733 \| 16 GB @ 3200
Video Card(s)	Nvidia RTX 3050 Mobile 4GB \| Nvidia GTX 1650 \| Nvidia GTX 960 2 GB
Storage	Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB \| Samsung M2 SSD 256 GB & 1 TB 2.5" HDD @ 7200\| SSD 250 GB & SSD 240 GB
Display(s)	Laptop built-in 144 Hz FHD screen \| Dell 27" WQHD @ 75 Hz & 49" TV FHD \| Samsung 32" TV FHD
Case	It's a laptop, it doesn't need case lmfao \| Deepcool Mattrexx 55 MESH \| Aerocool Cylon PRO
Audio Device(s)	laptop built in audio \| Logitech 2.1 speakers \| Logitech stereo speakers
Power Supply	ASUS 180W PSU \| SeaSonic Focus GX-550 \| SeaSonic M12II EVO 520W
Mouse	Logitech G604 \| Corsair Harpoon wired mouse\| Logitech G305
Keyboard	Laptop built-in keyboard \|Razer Blackwidow \| Steelseries APEX 7 TKL
VR HMD	Quest 2 sold out and don't need VR anymore lol
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 \| Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 & Ubuntu Mate 24.04.2\| Windows 11 24H2 LTSC
Benchmark Scores	good enough

System Name	My second and third PCs are Intel + Nvidia
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D @ 45 W TDP Eco Mode
Motherboard	MSi Pro B650M-A Wifi
Cooling	Noctua NH-D9L chromax.black
Memory	2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 CL36
Video Card(s)	PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT
Storage	2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 4 TB Seagate Barracuda
Display(s)	Dell S3422DWG 34" 1440 UW 144 Hz
Case	Corsair Crystal 280X
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 2.1 speakers, AKG Y50 headphones
Power Supply	750 W Seasonic Prime GX
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 2S
Keyboard	Logitech G413 SE
Software	Bazzite (Fedora Linux) KDE Plasma

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Mouse	Logitech G700s
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Cooling	Optimus Block, HWLabs Copper 240/40 x2, D5/Res, 4x Noctua A12x25, 1x A14G2, Conductonaut Extreme
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Storage	Intel Optane DC P1600X 118 GB, Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB
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