expiredRadiati0n posted Dec 14, 2024 03:03 PM
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expiredRadiati0n posted Dec 14, 2024 03:03 PM
MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI DDR5 AM5 AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series SATA 6Gb/s ATX Motherboards, Wi-Fi 6E, 2.5G Network Solution. $290
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$330 gets you one of the best x870e boards. If you were going to spend around $300 I would go for that instead. Otherwise the Tomahawk at $200.
This one is just at an awkward price IMHO.
If you need those things, a comparable AM4 board is still going to run you in the $180-200 range. Which at that point, I would go with the AM5 x670e Tomahawk for $200. If you don't, absolutely a $100 AM4 board with a $160-180 5700x3d would build a more than capable budget build. I personally wouldn't recommend that route for most folks unless perhaps you already had some DDR4 memory or otherwise laying around, and each dollar was very meaningful.
The best deal hands down I saw this holiday season was Newegg's $300 AM5 7600x, Motherboard, 32GB Ram, and 1TB NVME deal. If all you need is a budget gaming build, that was an amazing deal. I bought 2 of them. The 7600x gaming is on par/better than the 5700x3d, and since it's AM5 still gives you the flexibility to swap in something like a 9800x3d or otherwise in a few years once those are on super discount vs. being dead-ended with AM4. I would look to see if a similar deal pops up if you wanted a near-full system for the price of this motherboard.
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You would not get PCI 5. If you were looking to buy an upcoming unreleased 5090, or whatever follows it a few years later - which may benefit from PCI 5 (unknown at this time). At that point though if you are spending $1,000-$2,500 on a GPU, you probably aren't looking to save $70 on the motherboard. It would probably make sense to spend the extra $70 and get something with PCI 5 if you had to buy now until more is known about the upcominig cards IMHO.
$330 gets you one of the best x870e boards. If you were going to spend around $300 I would go for that instead. Otherwise the Tomahawk at $200.
This one is just at an awkward price IMHO.
If you are looking to spend $300'sh on a motherboard, that is the one to get vs. this one IMHO.
If you are looking to spend $300'sh on a motherboard, that is the one to get vs. this one IMHO.
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The gaming performance difference between the absolute top of the line AM4 motherboard, and the cheapest "trash mobo" AM5 board is going to be near zero. It's the CPU and GPU that really matter. You buy the better boards if they have the features you need; not for better gaming performance.
An upgrade to AM5 requires a new motherboard, new CPU, and new ram.
An upgrade from the "trash mobo" AM5 to the best gaming processors available for likely the next 4-6 years only requires a new CPU. The budget AM5 CPU trades blows with the best AM4 gaming CPUs.
IMHO I would suggest 9 times out of 10, it really is the best path to build fresh with AM5 now. Building a new AM4 system now to wait for the AM5 motherboards to drop in price $100 doesn't make sense to me; any savings you get there by waiting are going to be lost re-buying new CPU, RAM, and motherboard.
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