Why you need more than 2? i still use mostly SATA drives
CavemanMork
There’s no improvement to CPU performance from what I understand, so unless you need more I/O…
TheBoobSpecialist
The day we won’t need a motherboard anymore will be freeing.
xXDEGENERATEXx
1 M.2 as boot Drive. Some SATA SSDs for Games and a big Ass HDD as Backup/Data grave.
Sup3rGRIN
I mean most gpus are x16 pcie 4 which equals x8 pcie5 and they dont even use all of that bandwidth
So really you can run up to 4 gen 5 nvmes if you want for some god knows which reason
TwoCylToilet
A hypothetical X870 board with a MUX switch would allow you to have four PCIe 5.0 x 4 SSDs & one PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU at full bandwidth without involving the chipset. That’ll be a decent workstation replacement if you need more I/O but less than 16 cores of compute and two channels worth of memory bandwidth for much less money than a Threadripper.
Everyone else _should_ just buy a solid B6/850/E board. Overclocking and XMP/EXPO isn’t locked behind X6/870/E.
sultanorang8
A series is more than enough for me.
bugeater88
who needs more than 2 nvme drives? 8tb of fast storage is more than enough. if you need more get sata drives
DahakaOscuro
Two good performance SSD are fine, allows you to SATA and all.
SumonaFlorence
Gen 5 AND x16?
Who in the world would need that for the next 5-10 years? :f
lilGyros
x670e phantom gaming :p
Underfyre
People are using wireless to connect their desktops?
YesNoMaybe2552
I was looking to get the new ProArt for my next build, it’s the same board but for some reason they just went ahead and halved the charge provided by the front panel USB-C from 60W to 30W. Republic of Cringe still has 60W so it couldn’t have been a safety concern.
Those high level x760E boards already came with USB 4 and all the other bells and whistles so the only thing that changes is Why-Fi, as in why compromise on performance over wired on an expensive desktop machine that you aren’t moving anywhere and has already wires running into it.
Also hate to break it to you but if you think that having four or more NVMe drives isn’t something anyone would be looking for you are not the target audience for anything higher than B(udged) series anyway.
Pimpwerx
I struggled when deciding to buy my Gigabyte B650E Aorus Master. The idea of paying $400 for a mobo seemed outlandish, but when I looked at its specs, it was better equipped than boards twice its price. And it’s running the B650 chipset ffs.
Turns out I was right to buy it. You can run 2 Gen5 M2 slots and Gen5 x16 PCIe. Or, you can run 4 Gen5 M2 slots and Gen5 x8 PCIe. The same bifurcation that the 870 boards have to perform is possible on the 650 chipsets. But Gigabyte did a great job with this board. Hell, it was closer to $300 when first launched, and they raised the price because it’s clearly so much better than anything even close to the same price.
If the 870s cause the price of the B650E Aorus Master to drop, I would definitely consider it the favorite for anyone looking for something mid-to-high-end.
PolishedCheeto
I watches this level1techs video.
It only downgrades to 4.0 on the ssd slots it sounded like. The gpu slot remains at 5.0 regardless.
Solarflareqq
The 4x mem use is probably still gimped too which would have been nice to be fixed.
perhaps now you can run 4x @ 6400mhz though that wouldn’t be too bad some decent timed kits for that out there.
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What gpu uses x16 gen5?
Why you need more than 2? i still use mostly SATA drives
There’s no improvement to CPU performance from what I understand, so unless you need more I/O…
The day we won’t need a motherboard anymore will be freeing.
1 M.2 as boot Drive. Some SATA SSDs for Games and a big Ass HDD as Backup/Data grave.
I mean most gpus are x16 pcie 4 which equals x8 pcie5 and they dont even use all of that bandwidth
So really you can run up to 4 gen 5 nvmes if you want for some god knows which reason
A hypothetical X870 board with a MUX switch would allow you to have four PCIe 5.0 x 4 SSDs & one PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU at full bandwidth without involving the chipset. That’ll be a decent workstation replacement if you need more I/O but less than 16 cores of compute and two channels worth of memory bandwidth for much less money than a Threadripper.
Everyone else _should_ just buy a solid B6/850/E board. Overclocking and XMP/EXPO isn’t locked behind X6/870/E.
A series is more than enough for me.
who needs more than 2 nvme drives? 8tb of fast storage is more than enough. if you need more get sata drives
Two good performance SSD are fine, allows you to SATA and all.
Gen 5 AND x16?
Who in the world would need that for the next 5-10 years? :f
x670e phantom gaming :p
People are using wireless to connect their desktops?
I was looking to get the new ProArt for my next build, it’s the same board but for some reason they just went ahead and halved the charge provided by the front panel USB-C from 60W to 30W. Republic of Cringe still has 60W so it couldn’t have been a safety concern.
Those high level x760E boards already came with USB 4 and all the other bells and whistles so the only thing that changes is Why-Fi, as in why compromise on performance over wired on an expensive desktop machine that you aren’t moving anywhere and has already wires running into it.
Also hate to break it to you but if you think that having four or more NVMe drives isn’t something anyone would be looking for you are not the target audience for anything higher than B(udged) series anyway.
I struggled when deciding to buy my Gigabyte B650E Aorus Master. The idea of paying $400 for a mobo seemed outlandish, but when I looked at its specs, it was better equipped than boards twice its price. And it’s running the B650 chipset ffs.
Turns out I was right to buy it. You can run 2 Gen5 M2 slots and Gen5 x16 PCIe. Or, you can run 4 Gen5 M2 slots and Gen5 x8 PCIe. The same bifurcation that the 870 boards have to perform is possible on the 650 chipsets. But Gigabyte did a great job with this board. Hell, it was closer to $300 when first launched, and they raised the price because it’s clearly so much better than anything even close to the same price.
If the 870s cause the price of the B650E Aorus Master to drop, I would definitely consider it the favorite for anyone looking for something mid-to-high-end.
I watches this level1techs video.
It only downgrades to 4.0 on the ssd slots it sounded like. The gpu slot remains at 5.0 regardless.
The 4x mem use is probably still gimped too which would have been nice to be fixed.
perhaps now you can run 4x @ 6400mhz though that wouldn’t be too bad some decent timed kits for that out there.