Any suggestions on a motherboard to buy for use with a Ryzen 5950X?
Needs to have good power supply, decent NVMe cooling, lots of USB ports, room for an NH-D15 and no horrible LED lighting or ridiculous tiny high RPM fans. Don't need a single SATA port or other legacy nonsense.
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Maybe you can use this spreadsheet of all AM4 motherboards to sort through the chaff? docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d
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Most of the features don't make much difference to me beyond good power supply and USB ports.
I settled on ASUS since I can't go with my strong preference of EVGA (Intel only) and chose the PRIME X570 Pro because it's the cheapest one with support for additional USB-C ports.
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That's what I ended up choosing. I have zero interest in pretty much anything they offer in the very high end boards. I don't want Wi-Fi, fancy audio, tons of PCIe slots, SATA ports, M.2 slots, etc.
I'm not going to use more than one M.2 slot, no SATA.
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Parts for temporary new workstation which gets to become a gaming PC once Zen 3 Threadripper is available:
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Noctua NH-D15
ASUS Prime X570-Pro
4x 32GB G.SKILL 16-22-22-42 DDR4 3600
Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB
Fractal Design Meshify 2
Reusing an existing GPU and PSU.
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I liked the concept of the ASUS workstation-style board with ECC support and none of the gamer aesthetic nonsense / frills:
asus.com/ca-en/Motherbo
It's not clear that it would be as good for overclocking though and it's ridiculously overpriced. You get less for a higher price.
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Other than a really good and quite unique PCIe setup on that workstation-style board, which I really don't need, because I have no use for anything more than a single GPU without any other PCIe usage.
I'd be fine with microATX but it goes badly with the NH-D15 + overclocking.
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Won't buy anything from most of those companies because support and handling of returns is trash.
I wish EVGA made AMD motherboards. I wouldn't even be considering another vendor. By far the best support / handling of returns & simple product lines with few compromises/flaws.