AMD B550 mother board - thoughts ?

Fe_man2000

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Hi,

For my sins I find myself looking to build a new PC for my Son at this terrible time for PC hardware availability and price. I am likely going to upgrade my own PC and use the spares for the bulk for his build.

Starting with the CPU, Ram and Motherboard I am considering getting a AMD 5600x and 16 or 32GB 3600 Ram, and so I think a B550 motherboard will suit my needs/wallet best. I dont need a Z board.

So anyone got any suggestions on which AMD B550 motherboard is a good one - can be ATX or MircoATX (which I have now) as my case is full size.

  • Using a 5600x AMD CPU
  • ATX or mATX is fine
  • Cost is important after that performance for gaming.
  • 4 RAM slots
  • 2 NVMe would be nice
  • Dont need WiFi
  • Dont Need RGB
  • Dont need good Sound - using an external DAC
  • Dont need 2.5GB ethernet really.
  • Dont Overclock

Any advice would be appreciated.
I have a Silverstone R06 case and Corsair RM750x PSU already so once this is done the dreaded GPU hunt will begin.
 
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Seems to do fairly well in the Hardware Unboxed testing.

 
perfect - I cannot believe I missed this as I am a big Hardware unboxed fan.

Thanks Duncfunk
 
Scored that for £86.90 with free shipping on amazon just now - at that price had to pull the trigger

Pays to be up late these days for online purchases.

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Anyone got any RAM recommendations for this build - will be using a 5600x CPU. Is it better to get good 3200 or cheaper 3600 (likely 32GB)
 
Anyone got any RAM recommendations for this build - will be using a 5600x CPU. Is it better to get good 3200 or cheaper 3600 (likely 32GB)

When I ran some tests last year on my 3700X my 3200 CL14 ram performed much better than some 3600 CL18 I tried, not tried the same on my 5800X as I sent the 3600Mhz ram back.
 

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