this board is good for 3 m.2 ssd if needed.
Yup, I think only Gigabyte has a 3x NVME SSD slot for the B550 chipset. Just something to consider. Whether you get it or not, depends on yourself. I don’t see the point of sticking to a single brand just to make the rig “consistent“ with the same brand components, while depriving yourself of features that could be useful.
I would go for this option. In fact I keep one of this expansion card handy in case I need it. However, this depends on individual‘s preference.
ok so i read about it, if my board only has 1 x pcie 4.0 x 16 currently used for my 3070ti, im left with the lower slot which is the pcie 3.0? so if my expansion card supports 4.0 m.2, but it's plugged into a 3.0 x 16 slot, would it still work as 4.0 for the m.2? sorry just a quick read so not sure if i understand it correctly. the expansion card goes into the gpu slot kind right?
For everyday usage gen 3 nad gen 4 no difference unless u telling me everyday u copy a few Terabytes.
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Any Low end board in general... Asrock/Gigabyte got highlighted for b660mAm I wrong to say, as a general rule of thumb, avoid AsRock motherboards (particularly the Phantom Gaming variant)
even x570 also wont give you full two 4x slots....unless you run gpu at 8x
zen3 has 24 4.0 lanes in total,16x + 4x + 4x. the last 4x is shared between all other i/o like lan, wifi, sata, hence i believe it wont give exclusive 4x lanes to your 2nd nvme...but think also wont lose much in perf unless you hammer that last 4x lanes with load...
never tested this theory
I strongly agree.
Horses for courses, low end board is fine for up to non-K i5. No point you buy a lower-end CPU then spend twice as much on a mobo when you don't need good VRM to run it, that's a waste of money. Might as well get a better CPU and get better performance.
Depends specifically which board. Try not to look at brand by brand because they will start slipping in shitty models and overpricing them because they know consumers are willing to pay more for the brand. Lately Asus is guilty of this with their Prime models. Nowadays, HardwareUnboxed and PremiumBuilds got a lot of comparisons of low-end boards, very easy to see which one is best.Am I wrong to say, as a general rule of thumb, avoid AsRock motherboards (particularly the Phantom Gaming variant)
I think that depends. Some budget boards are known to throttle even with an i5. So as you mentioned, one should always do their due diligence to check reviews before buying. While it is classified as a budget board, to me, it should at least allow my CPU to run at full speed.
Specifically which board are you talking about actually? From what I saw, even the B660M-HDV which was so widely criticised ran an i5 12400 at full speed just fine. And that's for Intel, for AMD you can even run a 3900X on a B550M DS3H without throttling which is pretty crazy.
nope, in this case it will still be gen3. same thing if u plug a gen4 gpu into a gen3 slot, the slot wont magically become gen4 capable (see shenanigans regarding 6500xt in gen3 systems). if worried about running the nvmes at full speed, better to plug the expansion card into the gen4 x16 slot and ur 3070ti into the gen3 x16 slot, current gpus are still not fully utilising gen4 speeds at x16 bandwidth.
Does pcie expension card also classify be it gen 3 or gen 4 category?
looks like it.
Many thanks, I guess the selection of expansion card need to be consider carefully too whether it is gen 3 or 4 so no bottleneck of the SSD issue.
Exactly right. It will be bottlenecked by the card.
