Making a cheap Ryzen 7000 system - CPU, motherboard, and DRAM prices have dropped

[WYP]

AMD's AM5 platform has become much more appealing.



Read more about AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs and ecosystem becoming more affordable.

 

[Peace Ð]

That's very appealing to see! Do the chipsets even differ by a lot this time and who does actually need an X mainboard? I've read that this time, the chipsets are almost identical in their feature sets.

 

[Warchild]

That's very appealing to see! Do the chipsets even differ by a lot this time and who does actually need an X mainboard? I've read that this time, the chipsets are almost identical in their feature sets.

Very very few. Ive noticed that in gaming there is almost zero performance lost between my 11900k boosting to 5ghz, and disabling turbo altogether (staying at 3.5ghz).

The benefits are less power draw and lower temps. Next time, I dont even know if I will bother with K series unless i know ill get bottlenecked with my gpu

 

[ET3D]

The difference is mainly in whether PCIe 5.0 is available. Lower end boards have only PCIe 4.0 for the GPU slots, and the lowest end boards don't even have PCIe 5.0 for the NVMe slot.

Higher end boards also have USB 4.0, which isn't available in lower end boards.

Don't know if any of this matters to you. It doesn't really matter to me. But that was always the case. B series motherboards were always perfectly fine for the average buyer.

 

[Warchild]

The difference is mainly in whether PCIe 5.0 is available. Lower end boards have only PCIe 4.0 for the GPU slots, and the lowest end boards don't even have PCIe 5.0 for the NVMe slot.

Higher end boards also have USB 4.0, which isn't available in lower end boards.

Don't know if any of this matters to you. It doesn't really matter to me. But that was always the case. B series motherboards were always perfectly fine for the average buyer.

B series would be fine for many enthusiasts too, for the very same reason you mentioned above. We just always want the best with little justification as to why.

 

[WYP]

The higher-end boards mostly offer better I/O and more PCIe 5.0. Ultimately, whether or not that matters to you depends on your use case. For most gamers, the cheaper boards are more than good enough.

 

[Warchild]

The higher-end boards mostly offer better I/O and more PCIe 5.0. Ultimately, whether or not that matters to you depends on your use case. For most gamers, the cheaper boards are more than good enough.

Exactly, and the term Enthusiast is rather ambiguous. It doesn not necessarily mean that said enthusiast must have the latest and greatest. Many dont need to have the best PCIe 5.0 offering. AMD could really dominate here when you see the already overpriced Z790 boards on the market.

 

[WYP]

Exactly, and the term Enthusiast is rather ambiguous. It doesn not necessarily mean that said enthusiast must have the latest and greatest. Many dont need to have the best PCIe 5.0 offering. AMD could really dominate here when you see the already overpriced Z790 boards on the market.

TBH, you don't need to care about PCIe 5.0 yet. There are no PCIe 5.0 SSDs and now PCIe 5.0 graphics cards yet. The RTX 40 series and RX 7000 series are PCIe 4.0.

 

[Warchild]

TBH, you don't need to care about PCIe 5.0 yet. There are no PCIe 5.0 SSDs and now PCIe 5.0 graphics cards yet. The RTX 40 series and RX 7000 series are PCIe 4.0.

Thats my point which is why the comment above that B boards are fine for the average buyer could even extend to many "enthusiasts"