Question B650 motherboard's which one

In2Photos said:

All the extra I/O for the 670 boards sounds great in theory, but how many people will actually use it? Most are going to have 1-3 M.2 drives and a single GPU in the top x16 slot. Any B650 board will handle that just fine. Now if you start doing something more than that the extra PCI lanes may benefit you. Despite the availability of Gen 5 drives I stuck with Gen 4 due to price and temps. I just didn't see the benefit of Gen 5 when I built my system almost 18 months ago, nor do I even see it now. And we still don't have any Gen 5 GPUs.

But if you can get an X670 for similar price points to B650, than by all means it makes sense to do so.

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The hardest thing I do 99% of the time is game. Even B550 handles that great. I am just taking the opportunity to retire my last vanilla Zen 3 system and swap to Zen 4 3D. I have decided I am going to wait for the new boards though. If nothing else early adopters might start selling their present boards in the forums and I can pick up a deal. I have always made out great with used boards I buy here.

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If you can hold out that long, it might be worth the time to see what the dynamics are after the new boards hit. Looking forward to your results whatever way you go,

In2Photos said:

All the extra I/O for the 670 boards sounds great in theory, but how many people will actually use it? Most are going to have 1-3 M.2 drives and a single GPU in the top x16 slot. Any B650 board will handle that just fine. Now if you start doing something more than that the extra PCI lanes may benefit you.

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The extra I/O you get from going X670 is all connected to the CPU with the same 4.0x4 chipset uplink as B650. Even if you need the extra I/O you have to start worrying about bottle necks if the devices connected to it are using up bandwidth simultaneously. The X670 chipset itself is kind of silly IMO. That being said there are still plenty of excellent boards that use it.

Despite the availability of Gen 5 drives I stuck with Gen 4 due to price and temps. I just didn't see the benefit of Gen 5 when I built my system almost 18 months ago, nor do I even see it now. And we still don't have any Gen 5 GPUs.

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Same here. I've yet to buy a Gen 5 drive despite having built multiple systems with motherboards that supported Gen 5 drives. Even if we do get next gen GPUs with Gen 5 I doubt we'll be anywhere near saturating a 4.0x16 slot anytime soon.

But if you can get an X670 for similar price points to B650, than by all means it makes sense to do so.

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The flip side of this is you shouldn't automatically assume that because a board has X670 it's automatically better than a B650. For example, the Asus ROG STRIX B650E-E GAMING WIFI i picked up from Amazon last year for $270 is a considerably better featured board than most X670 boards on the market. It's priced accordingly ($350 MSRP) for that very reason. Ultimately each board should be judged on it's own merits and not necessarily for the chipset it comes with.

I thought we'd start seeing new boards in September? As to 5yrs from now, I used a ASRock X370 that long, put every Zen gen and almost every APU gen in it. It was still a great gamer with Zen 3 and fast GPU. Gen 3 never held it back to any noticeable degree. Gen 4 GPUs will still be fine is my prediction, but gen 5 support would be nice to have if keeping the board so long.

DAPUNISHER said:

I thought we'd start seeing new boards in September? As to 5yrs from now, I used a ASRock X370 that long, put every Zen gen and almost every APU gen in it. It was still a great gamer with Zen 3 and fast GPU. Gen 3 never held it back to any noticeable degree. Gen 4 GPUs will still be fine is my prediction, but gen 5 support would be nice to have if keeping the board so long.

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X870 boards will probably be available a bit later.

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