Motherboard for Ryzen 7800X3D and 32GB RAM kit

[Waldorf]

lol, not getting anything that doesnt have debug display or missing flashback for bios,
and for me includes 2nd bios as well.

 

[SamS]

Hello!
How about Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite V2 (sAM4, AMD B550, PCI-Ex16) Motherboard? Is it worth buying it?
I read a lot of good reviews

 

[Chrispy_]

Hello!
How about Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite V2 (sAM4, AMD B550, PCI-Ex16) Motherboard? Is it worth buying it?
I read a lot of good reviews

It's a fine mid-priced AM4 board. I've bought several for 5950X 24/7 use and not had any issues with them in years.

Don't ask me how well they overclock, I just fill all the slots with the largest DDR4 modules I can buy and set them to run at stock speeds for 4 DIMMS (usually 2933MHz). The one I took home runs a 2x16GB DDR4-3600-CL16 kit as you'd expect it to just fine. All this hype about overclocking RAM to its absolute limit is nonsense that nobody needs. Getting AM4 CPUs stable with DDR4-4000 and tight timings might situationally be like 2% faster and for that puny tradeoff you risk games crashing crashing, instability in daily use, OS corruption, file corruption and more. As if that wasn't bad enough, 90% of games you're likely to run on an AM4 platform will be GPU limited and the CPU/RAM speed doesn't even matter in the first place, provided you have enough CPU to feed your graphics card frames.

If you want set-and-forget compatibility, looks for Corsair Ryzen-tuned DDR4 kits. They're not the fastest things out there and the timings are pretty loose, but if you don't want the headaches of hoping that Intel XMP timings work with your motherboard, just buy those and call it a day. I think they have some super-cheap Vengeance LPX 3600-CL18 which are plenty fast enough for even a 5800X3D.

 

[SamS]

It's a fine mid-priced AM4 board. I've bought several for 5950X 24/7 use and not had any issues with them in years.

Don't ask me how well they overclock, I just fill all the slots with the largest DDR4 modules I can buy and set them to run at stock speeds for 4 DIMMS (usually 2933MHz). The one I took home runs a 2x16GB DDR4-3600-CL16 kit as you'd expect it to just fine. All this hype about overclocking RAM to its absolute limit is nonsense that nobody needs. Getting AM4 CPUs stable with DDR4-4000 and tight timings might situationally be like 2% faster and for that puny tradeoff you risk games crashing crashing, instability in daily use, OS corruption, file corruption and more. As if that wasn't bad enough, 90% of games you're likely to run on an AM4 platform will be GPU limited and the CPU/RAM speed doesn't even matter in the first place, provided you have enough CPU to feed your graphics card frames.

If you want set-and-forget compatibility, looks for Corsair Ryzen-tuned DDR4 kits. They're not the fastest things out there and the timings are pretty loose, but if you don't want the headaches of hoping that Intel XMP timings work with your motherboard, just buy those and call it a day. I think they have some super-cheap Vengeance LPX 3600-CL18 which are plenty fast enough for even a 5800X3D.

Thanks a lot for your recommendations.