Hey guys any suggestions on MotherBoards, CPU and Ram to pair with a RTX 3070?
Suggestions on MB and CPU to Pair with RTX 3070
Fury96 on 29/10/2020 - 00:17
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Nov 5th I might look into that when the time comes
Depends more on what resolution your monitor is.
2560x1440p
how?
he’s already decided on gpu which is the deciding factor behind resolution….
Budget?
No budget
That doesn't really help TBH. I could suggest a $500 combo, or a $3000 combo. What are you using this for, and what do you want from it?
Okay 1.5k
@Fury96: Don't know if you saw the second part of my post, it was an edit and you replied seconds latter.
What are you using this for, and what do you want from it?
@Fury96: Well I'm gaming at 1440p with a 2080 and I have a 3600X and a Asus X570 board.
https://www.umart.com.au/Asus-ROG-Strix-X570-F-Gaming-AM4-AT…
https://www.umart.com.au/Corsair-32GB--2x16GB--CMW32GX4M2Z32…
https://www.umart.com.au/AMD-Ryzen-5-3600-6-Core-AM4-3-6GHz-…That's a sub $1k combo, these parts or equivalent can be had for cheaper though bargains posted on this site.
Keep in mind that the next generation Ryzen chips might be released in a couple of weeks if you can wait.
@Fury96: I would 100% wait for the 5000 series AMD CPUs. AMD are absolutely killing it at the moment, and leaks are that the 5600X is beating the Intel i9-10900k in single thread performance. The i9 is currently $900 in Australia.
@AdosHouse: Hype alert:
either Intel or AMD, basically use the same core on their i5/i7/i9, r5/r7/r9, which is apparent that:
i5 10600k have almost identical single core performance as i9 10900.
r5 3600 have almost identical single core as r9 3900.who ever write the comparison, is trying to trick people's mind for some reason….
it's true, but it's just a bad comparison.
Thanks I'll do some research on those, appreciate.
Hey Naheed, I've decided to look at getting a 3080 after seeing the overpriced 3070's for sale, Currently I'm eyeing a Evga 3080 that's selling for $1150 at PLE.
I don't know where the 4DIMM come from, 2 dimm per channel (2DPC) mobos are straight up worse than 1DPC boards present they have same PCB layers
you are not guaranteed to run high clock if you buy 2 pack of 2 sticks, cuz manufacturer will not validate it, you may even get different chip revisions…
a pack of 4 stick ram is much more expensive than 2*2pack too.
In old DDR3 days, 8G per channel is max, if you want 32G you'd need 4 sticks, plus they don't run high speed anyway so it's not too big of issue,
right now you can buy 32G/64G per stick if you really wanted that. 1DPC is more likely to be more stable.
the choice is not wrong, but the reason to get those boards is far from the fact it have 4 ram slot. it's more like precise OC, better power delivery, PCIe lane can split etc.
If you buy those board and you run them at stock, you are using them wrong (unless you just have too much cash, which clearly the OP don't, he'd better save that cash and get RTX3080 instead.)
some reasonable selections: (I assume if you have money to spend on RTX3070 you won't cheap out too much on CPU/Mobos)
cheap: i5 10400f + MSI b460m Pro VHD + Deepcool Gammax 400 (RAM speed limited to 2666, just get a 2666 set of Kingston/Corsair c16 and that's it)
pro: 6 core 12 thread is plenty for an average user, the mobo will have enough VRM power delivery for the CPU.
con: 10400f isn't particularly fast in terms of single cores, if your type of game includes PUBG/Warzone/TotalWar (basically any game that has a lot of non-graphical calculations)you probably should spend a bit more on CPU.cheap alternative: r5 3600 + ASUS B550M -A + same cooler listed above + any set of 3600 speed RAM, C16 or C18, what ever good deal you can find.
pro: slightly better than the Intel 10400f because you have higher RAM speed, but it is much of a muchness. you'd get PCIe 4.0 which is nice on paper but not yet useful, although RTX 3070 is PCIe 4.0
con: same as abovenot so cheap options is a bit hard though, until you can actually get a Ryzen 5000 chip, Intel does still lead the single core performance… I've watched the AMD announcement, I guess the new Ryzen will be on average 10% better than Intel, worst case same as intel, best case 20~30% better. So if you able to wait, you'd better wait a bit.
Intel:
10600k(f) + MSI Z490 A Pro + Nuctua U12S (or better) + what ever ram that's 3600+Pro: you'd get basically best single core performance which is what those game mentioned in last comment need. The motherboard is a 6-layer PCB board which is fine basically with what ever ram you put in (up to 4800mhz, I think it could daily a good dual channel kit around less than 4400 ish)
Con: no PCIe 4.0, and it's 6 core 12 thread which is….. only a bit better than enough as a pro gamer.(once r5 5600 release, you can do 5600+b550 + gammax 400 cooler + 3600 ram, which should be slightly better and maybe cheaper, you'd get PCIe 4.0 then, again, PCIe4 is not yet useful)
if you were to spend a bit more:
i7 10700f + B460m Tuf plus + any 3000c15/ 3200c16 ram + Nuctua u12s or better
pro: 8 core 16 thread will last you quite a bit. single core wise only tiny-bit slower than the 10600k combo, if you don't know which CPU to pick I don't think you will ever know the difference between the 2 anyway.
con: RAM will stay 2933 max, no PCIe 4.0, but you basically get everything else decent.If you'd spend more….
I'd recommend you either:
i7 10700f (or 10700kf) + MSI Z490 A Pro, 3600+ ram, U12s
same reasoning as above.you can swap the motherboard to MSI Z490 Gaming Plus, which will get you better audio connections.
then if you want to go crazy, you can go:
i9 10850k + Z490 Tomahawk + Nuctua U14s or better + 4000~4133 RAM.or just wait for Ryzen release….. but I can tell you won't miss out too much going with intel for now, except eventually you may have a slightly sour taste in you thinking about PCIe 4.0 ——- although it's not very useful yet, but you just going to keep remembering you don't have it.
Problem is that most people do 1 or 2 GPU upgrades per build. While it may be fine now, the next GPU upgrade 3 years down the line will most definitely be bottlenecked by PCIE 3.0
if you think about it, the first platform introduce pcie 3.0 is Ivy Bridge (3rd gen Intel, i7 3770k etc) which was around 2012, and the first GPU that run over PCIe 3.0 x8(half of full bandwidth of pcie 3.0) is 2080ti
though pcie 4.0 GPU can support loading texture from SSD straight away, so it may be handy if the game have MASSIVE sized texture.
3 year or so the CPU maybe out of date anyway, hard to say wither getting 4.0 is worth it….
Im building a new PC and have an AMD motherboard… just hope i can get my hadns on a 5000
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