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This is a continuation of a CPU thread that resulted in my understanding that the Ryzen 5 1600 is a good choice for me
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3476755/amd-cpu-general-purpose.html#19975005
Now it's the motherboard question.
HOLY SHIZZLE THERE ARE A LOT of options. I'm utterly overwhelmed. But maybe have narrowed it down a little bit:
Asus has been good for me in the past and they still have a decent reputation component wise. Solid kit they make. AsRock being like their budget offshoot is also considered. The rest, Gigabyte, MSI, etc to me just seem risky and cheap.
I learned that I should also pay attention to the UEFI that the board has.
Aside from smaller form factor, whats the difference between Micro and regular ATX boards? I doubt I'll really need 128 GB RAM so I believe 2 DIMM slots are enough. I'm probably only ever going to use 1 beefy GPU instead of loading 2, although still not clear what the SLI fuss is about.
https://m.newegg.com/ProductList?keyword=Asrock+am4+micro
These are some nice looking little micro ATX boards. Will I have heat issues? Can I even attempt OC or is that kind of chipset not going to work?
But then I see the Taichi and it's awesome but geez, 250 bucks! No thank you...
So in the 100-ish range, I'm trying to:
1. Potentially OC a Ryzen 5 1600
2. Maybe attempt a NVma boot disk setup
3. Back up my data on SATA connected HDDs
4. Run games off a couple dedicated Samsung 840 evo SSDs
5. Keep my current GTX 970 Ti Strix but one day might decide to replace it with a 1060 Ti... or even 1080 should I stumble across a wad of cash...
6. Perhaps get more serious about multi GPU setup if the use case warrants it (CUDA rendering and VR gaming)
The last 2 points are really unlikely and if they weren't I'd just budget $250 and get a taichi.
But I'm hoping to do this on a $100-ish budget
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3476755/amd-cpu-general-purpose.html#19975005
Now it's the motherboard question.
HOLY SHIZZLE THERE ARE A LOT of options. I'm utterly overwhelmed. But maybe have narrowed it down a little bit:
Asus has been good for me in the past and they still have a decent reputation component wise. Solid kit they make. AsRock being like their budget offshoot is also considered. The rest, Gigabyte, MSI, etc to me just seem risky and cheap.
I learned that I should also pay attention to the UEFI that the board has.
Aside from smaller form factor, whats the difference between Micro and regular ATX boards? I doubt I'll really need 128 GB RAM so I believe 2 DIMM slots are enough. I'm probably only ever going to use 1 beefy GPU instead of loading 2, although still not clear what the SLI fuss is about.
https://m.newegg.com/ProductList?keyword=Asrock+am4+micro
These are some nice looking little micro ATX boards. Will I have heat issues? Can I even attempt OC or is that kind of chipset not going to work?
But then I see the Taichi and it's awesome but geez, 250 bucks! No thank you...
So in the 100-ish range, I'm trying to:
1. Potentially OC a Ryzen 5 1600
2. Maybe attempt a NVma boot disk setup
3. Back up my data on SATA connected HDDs
4. Run games off a couple dedicated Samsung 840 evo SSDs
5. Keep my current GTX 970 Ti Strix but one day might decide to replace it with a 1060 Ti... or even 1080 should I stumble across a wad of cash...
6. Perhaps get more serious about multi GPU setup if the use case warrants it (CUDA rendering and VR gaming)
The last 2 points are really unlikely and if they weren't I'd just budget $250 and get a taichi.
But I'm hoping to do this on a $100-ish budget
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