Joining the AMD camp on my first build in 16 years....

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BADS197

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Took a break when I left the last lawfirm I worked for, no desire to do anything computer related aside from buying a laptop and going with what it came with.

I'm "from back when water cooling was a fish tank pump and some plastic tube" old and so much has changed and a lot of websites I used to get stuff from are now gone., Glad to see the forum still around ...

Lian Li 011-D RGB Midtower (purchased)
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (purchased)

ASUS Nvidia 4080 OC ROG video card

Thats about as far as I've gotten so far... Not sure what motherboard to go with that will match with it the best... So many choices these days still.

Suggestions before I start sifting through a ton of search results.

thanks
Jake
 
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What are you planning on doing with it? Gaming? Productivity? what kind of either?

That 011D is a wonderful tower, but it does not come with any fans, so understand you'll need to populate the fan slots with enough fans to promote a good wind tunnel airflow.
 
KazeoHin said:
What are you planning on doing with it? Gaming? Productivity? what kind of either?

That 011D is a wonderful tower, but it does not come with any fans, so understand you'll need to populate the fan slots with enough fans to promote a good wind tunnel airflow.
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Gaming mostly.. the rest of the stuff i do is sending 3d models to the printers, games would be the most intensive thing I do.

I think i can get everything this week once decided on what i need/want. The video card might drop to being a nvidia 4070 oc version of some sort as i dont h ave a monitor that will do 8k gaming.. think at this point i'm limited to 1440.

I'll pickup fans for it before it gets fired up for the first time. I dont have a lot of free time during the week to build and mess around with setting stuff up even though it takes less then 1/2 hour to assemble as i remember it.. haha
 
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I have a Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX that has been very stable from day one, had it since July 2023.
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I'm trying to figure out the big difference between the 650 and 670 motherboards and for the life of me cannot see a big difference. I'll look at your motherboard online.. thank you
 
Just make sure you get the power stages you need for the 7900x, my board has 14 / 70amp stages ($220) on HUB (HardwareUnbox) B650 round up video, and the more overkiller in that area see's the price jump, I mean you can get up to 105amp power stages in the $300 - $400 boards.
 
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I’m assuming you don’t have a Microcenter near you. Their combo deals are awesome and you can swap out different motherboards and ram.

I like my Asrock taichi 670e, but it’s $$$
I’ve had 3 different Asus 650E-F Wi-Fi motherboards and they’ve all been great. One gigabyte 650 gaming ax which is decent but not my favorite.
 
BADS197 said:
Gaming mostly.. the rest of the stuff i do is sending 3d models to the printers, games would be the most intensive thing I do.

I think i can get everything this week once decided on what i need/want. The video card might drop to being a nvidia 4070 oc version of some sort as i dont h ave a monitor that will do 8k gaming.. think at this point i'm limited to 1440.

I'll pickup fans for it before it gets fired up for the first time. I dont have a lot of free time during the week to build and mess around with setting stuff up even though it takes less then 1/2 hour to assemble as i remember it.. haha
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For gaming you don't want that CPU, go for the 7800X3D, it's a much faster gaming chip, and still an unbelievably fast all around chip.

Also 32GB of low Latency 6000 EXPO ram.
 
JNavy89GT said:
I’m assuming you don’t have a Microcenter near you. Their combo deals are awesome and you can swap out different motherboards and ram.

I like my Asrock taichi 670e, but it’s $$$
I’ve had 3 different Asus 650E-F Wi-Fi motherboards and they’ve all been great. One gigabyte 650 gaming ax which is decent but not my favorite.
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I have a Microcenter about an hour away (2 hours with traffic... Los Angeles). I'm getting almost all the parts from them since they are localish. I'm ordering stuff tomorrow and will make the out of the way drive to work to pick the stuff up.
 
BADS197 said:
I have a Microcenter about an hour away (2 hours with traffic... Los Angeles). I'm getting almost all the parts from them since they are localish. I'm ordering stuff tomorrow and will make the out of the way drive to work to pick the stuff up.
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Just for gaming, a quality B650 board will do fine and boot faster. The X670 has a dual chipset that takes longer to initialize and unless you need a crapton of ports for some reason it isn't really worth it. I'm very partial to the Gigabyte and ASRock boards this generation, like someone else said the Gaming X AX is a really good board for a reasonable price. Get some DDR5 6000 CL30, like the Gskill FlareX units.
 
I hate the fan hysteresis on gigabyte boards, no way to set a long fan ramp up duration like I could on ASUS. Not sure about asrock. just throwing that out there
 
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I hate the fan hysteresis on gigabyte boards, no way to set a long fan ramp up duration like I could on ASUS. Not sure about asrock. just throwing that out there
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I'm not sure when you used one last, but the B650 Eagle board I had recently had a nice fan curve editor where you could set it to stepped or smoothed and it worked well but when you installed the Gigabyte App Center thing it took over with a much more aggressive fan curve (including the GPU which was a Gigabyte brand as well) so I just got rid of the app and it worked normally again.
 
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I'm not sure when you used one last, but the B650 Eagle board I had recently had a nice fan curve editor where you could set it to stepped or smoothed and it worked well but when you installed the Gigabyte App Center thing it took over with a much more aggressive fan curve (including the GPU which was a Gigabyte brand as well) so I just got rid of the app and it worked normally again.
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Running a B550i. You can set the curves but you can't set a time for the fan to ramp, unless I'm blind, which is possible.

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I much prefer the bios’s with Asrock or Asus vs the gigabyte. That said, my daughter ms gigabyte has been a good board. I’m just used to the layout of the others.

If you’re at a Microcenter. Look online for the bundles. Put a combo in your cart. Then look online and filter for open box am5 motherboards. Probably find and Asus 650e-f for $150-175. Look for comments such as complete etc.. then inspect when you pick it up. Make sure no bent socket pins and all accessories are there and ssd heatsink are on board or in box. I’ve got two open box boards and they have been good and much much cheaper vs new. Asus 650e-f has pci-r 5.0 for gpu and one nvme ssd. Plus oodles of other nvme and usb ports. Has decent VRM’s
 
I've used all of the major bioses (asrock, Msi, Asus, gigabyte) - they're all fine, you won't be spending much time in them anyhow
 
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Pretty much any board >$150ish will pair well with a 7900X. B650(E) / X670(E). Skip the low end A620 or B650.

You need to evaluate your requirements e.g. how many M.2 NVME, SATA, USB, PCIe expansion do you need? Do you want POST code or Debug LED? Do you want good onboard sound and/or NIC? Quick edit: also do you want PCIe 5.0? For the PCIe x16, for the M.2 or both?
 
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Dopamin3 said:
Pretty much any board >$150ish will pair well with a 7900X. B650(E) / X670(E). Skip the low end A620 or B650.

You need to evaluate your requirements e.g. how many M.2 NVME, SATA, USB, PCIe expansion do you need? Do you want POST code or Debug LED? Do you want good onboard sound and/or NIC? Quick edit: also do you want PCIe 5.0? For the PCIe x16, for the M.2 or both?
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2 m.2 drives, one for OS and apps and one for games, other data gets stored on a external raid5 device
1 usb c (to connect my raid storage)
1 or 2 usb ports (i can always hook up a usb hub or use the one i have on my laptop because its been my all-in-one solution
as long as its got decent sound, 5.1 or 7.1 i dont care about the brand/maker of the sound chip.. i used to be sound blaster fanatic... but with my ears ringing (tinitis) it really doesnt matter.. ears are not perfect anymore
1 slot for the video card and thats it honestly.. most mobo come with audio and wifi/nic
sata for internal drives is not that important as again, most of my mass storage is on another device so internal hard drives are optional

I think the B650E that was suggested and i ordered for pickup tomorrow will suit my needs AND it saved me a few dollars.
 
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