Interesting article, I’m looking at building my own home/ media/file/nas/server and have so far just bought the Ryzen 5 3600 am currently Looking at motherboards and after reading this I’ll be looking at the cheaper X470 chip set, so thank you
As a builder with a fairly large customer base I have been recommending Zen 2 (ryzen 3000) processors on high-end x370 chipset motherboards such as the crosshair extreme. I’ve probably purchased all of the x370 crosshair extreme motherboards that were languishing in stock or backstock over the past 6 to 8 months – is that combination benchmarks evenly with those chips on the x570 motherboards what costing $400 less than the equivalent.
There is still one thing to compare: power consumption. It is not necessary that it would be 10W difference. Nowadays it is slightly difference, but mind my words: one day electricity would be luxury good.
Thanks for this informative article. Methinks you have saved me the money to having to buy a x570 for the ryzen 5 3600, having good performance versus having best performance is a good distinction to make, but what really matters is does it work for me? And with this info, I feel I can rest easy knowing my 50 bucks was better spent elsewhere in a new build.
I’m purchasing a new computer system with a Ryzen 7 3700x and Nvidia 2060 Super. I haven’t received it yet, but it will have a X470 motherboard. I appreciate your testing as it reassures me that I have a competent motherboard. I am coming from an AM3+ motherboard with a F/X 4300 processor. I couldn’t upgrade it anymore and thus made the choice to save up the money to get a new computer system.
I’m planning a new-build PC using R5 3600 CPU, Gigabyte x570 Works Pro WiFi and an Rx 5700 you. I will use existing data storage until a later upgrade to NVMe SSD.
I did purchase a Ryzen 7 2700 CPU but I did not upgrade my MSI Carbon 470 mainboard. Given your fine review, I figured for right now, I am good with what I have now 🙂
The benefit of upgrading to the X570 would imho ‘future proof’ a PC but not necessarily render higher performance numbers. One drawback would be updating the BIOS firmware on an X470 board to Gen3 processors where I’ve read from AMD posts could possibly lock it out from future firmware updates.
I updated my firmware a long time ago (well months lol) when MSI came out with the firmware update to allow new Ryzen CPUs, but I was still running my “old” 5 2600 CPU in my 470 mainboard. I just bought my new 7 2700 CPU from MicroCenter on Monday and just swapped out the CPUs and it fired right up reading the new CPU. I was quite pleased.
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Interesting article, I’m looking at building my own home/ media/file/nas/server and have so far just bought the Ryzen 5 3600 am currently Looking at motherboards and after reading this I’ll be looking at the cheaper X470 chip set, so thank you
Glad to help. 😉
As a builder with a fairly large customer base I have been recommending Zen 2 (ryzen 3000) processors on high-end x370 chipset motherboards such as the crosshair extreme. I’ve probably purchased all of the x370 crosshair extreme motherboards that were languishing in stock or backstock over the past 6 to 8 months – is that combination benchmarks evenly with those chips on the x570 motherboards what costing $400 less than the equivalent.
There is still one thing to compare: power consumption. It is not necessary that it would be 10W difference. Nowadays it is slightly difference, but mind my words: one day electricity would be luxury good.
Thanks for this informative article. Methinks you have saved me the money to having to buy a x570 for the ryzen 5 3600, having good performance versus having best performance is a good distinction to make, but what really matters is does it work for me? And with this info, I feel I can rest easy knowing my 50 bucks was better spent elsewhere in a new build.
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I’m purchasing a new computer system with a Ryzen 7 3700x and Nvidia 2060 Super. I haven’t received it yet, but it will have a X470 motherboard. I appreciate your testing as it reassures me that I have a competent motherboard. I am coming from an AM3+ motherboard with a F/X 4300 processor. I couldn’t upgrade it anymore and thus made the choice to save up the money to get a new computer system.
Enjoy your purchase Ravi.
I’m planning a new-build PC using R5 3600 CPU, Gigabyte x570 Works Pro WiFi and an Rx 5700 you. I will use existing data storage until a later upgrade to NVMe SSD.
I did purchase a Ryzen 7 2700 CPU but I did not upgrade my MSI Carbon 470 mainboard. Given your fine review, I figured for right now, I am good with what I have now 🙂
Thanks!
The benefit of upgrading to the X570 would imho ‘future proof’ a PC but not necessarily render higher performance numbers. One drawback would be updating the BIOS firmware on an X470 board to Gen3 processors where I’ve read from AMD posts could possibly lock it out from future firmware updates.
That is a good point indeed.
Hiya Taz,
I updated my firmware a long time ago (well months lol) when MSI came out with the firmware update to allow new Ryzen CPUs, but I was still running my “old” 5 2600 CPU in my 470 mainboard. I just bought my new 7 2700 CPU from MicroCenter on Monday and just swapped out the CPUs and it fired right up reading the new CPU. I was quite pleased.
Just thought I would mention that 🙂
Useful data. Thanks for sharing it.