9800X3D Bros. Which motherboard are you rocking and why?

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As the title says, which motherboard are you rocking, and why?

Building a new 9800X3D and the only last part I'm hung up on, is the mobo decision.

PCMRs, HALP!!
 
I'm not sure what is the best mobo for 9800x3D, but I'm avoiding Asus these days. Last one I had was nothing but problems. Have a Gigabyte for my 7700X and it has been fine.
 
Topher said:
I'm not sure what is the best mobo for 9800x3D, but I'm avoiding Asus these days. Last one I had was nothing but problems. Have a Gigabyte for my 7700X and it has been fine.
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I'm leaning towards this board myself.

www.gigabyte.com

X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 (rev. 1.0/1.1) Key Features | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

Lasting Quality from GIGABYTE.GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ motherboards bring together a unique blend of features and technologies that offer users the absolute ultimate platform for...
www.gigabyte.com www.gigabyte.com
 
DeepEnigma said:
As the title says, which motherboard are you rocking, and why?

Building a new 9800X3D and the only last part I'm hung up on, is the mobo decision.

PCMRs, HALP!!
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I'm running a MSI MAG X670E tomahawk wifi. Main reason is it was part of a bundle at Microcenter at the time. I got it on launch day back in November and it was the only way to guarantee I'd snag one. Regular retail it goes for about 250 bucks...which seems a bit expensive honestly.

I didn't want to jump straight into the X870 mobos because they just recently got their shit together with the BIOS version on the X670s. I feared the new gen might have issues as well that would take months to fix.
 
If you don't need usb4, asus x670e gene, gigabyte x670e master

If you need usb4, which you will then lose 1 nvme gen5 , asus x870e apex or hero or strix e-e

Msi x870e or none e tomahawk allows you to switch between usb4 and that extra nvme gen5 option.

Most if not all x870/e boards steals that nvme slot for useless usb4
 
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DeepEnigma said:
I'm leaning towards this board myself.

www.gigabyte.com

X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 (rev. 1.0/1.1) Key Features | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

Lasting Quality from GIGABYTE.GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ motherboards bring together a unique blend of features and technologies that offer users the absolute ultimate platform for...
www.gigabyte.com www.gigabyte.com
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Unless you need something that the E version provides (not sure what that would be), you can save some money going with the non-E version of the board.
 
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I saw a YouTube video that said it was one if the better ones and it was in a bundle, it is the best motherboard I've owned as it ticks every box I had.
 
Edit, too many numbers I just realized that I only have a 7800x3D in that PC, I'll bow out in shame from this thread 😞
 
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I recently ordered a 7500F, second foray into the AMD ecosystem. My ancient 4-core i5 simply can't handle modern games.

Got myself MSI B650m Gaming Plus Wifi board after doing extensive survey.
 
I have the Asus X670E-E from when I had the 7800x3d before upgrading.

Perfect board. Not a single issue with it. No coil whine either. never gave an error or acted funny. don't even have to worry about drivers as aroumry crate does everything.

never froze/ was stuttering, or felt sluggish on me. Never crashed on me while gaming either. I kinda wanted the X870E. But that quick release drama made me stay away from the board. They released a V2 of their boards that fixes the problem they had, but I'm gonna avoid it just to be on the safe side for now. Don't want to have any chance to damage my 5090 FE.

Anything B650E and above are excellent boards, and you can't go wrong unless you must have a USB4 so bad or wifi 7, then you will need to go with the higher-end boards like the X870E

In general, it goes like this. X870E -> X670E -> X870 -> B850E/B650E ---> anything below is garbage and avoid as it doesn't even have PCIe Gen 5
 
Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX V2

Not really much reason to go beyond B650, the boards with daisychained chipsets are only for if you want stupid amounts of PCIe lanes really. With risers you can still slot 5x M.2s in this one, though you get capped at ~2GB/s for the ones in PCIe 1x slots.
 
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I'm looking at motherboards myself for a possible 9800X3D build in the coming months. I definitely want an X870E motherboard for the extra PCI-E lanes to accommodate at least two Gen5 SSDs on top of a GPU. I'm eyeing the MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wi-Fi. It's a bit more than I usually put into a motherboard but I feel like prices have gone up on premium boards so I gotta just roll with it. It's nice to see that most premium boards finally use 5Gb ethernet.

I like the Carbon Wi-Fi's clean look and specs, I also love that button next to the bottom right corner of the RAM slots that easily ejects the graphics card from that first PCI-E slot. The connections on the I/O panel are plentiful, with dual LAN which I love but is becoming increasingly rare these days, even on premium boards.

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All the USB ports are at least 10Gb and there's even two 40Gb USB-C ports that can do DisplayPort.

Anybody here have this motherboard? Would love some feedback on it from somebody that has one.
 
I feel like mobos are a bit of a crapshoot. But here's what I have:
www.gigabyte.com

X870E AORUS PRO ICE (rev. 1.1) Key Features | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

Lasting Quality from GIGABYTE.GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ motherboards bring together a unique blend of features and technologies that offer users the absolute ultimate platform for...
www.gigabyte.com www.gigabyte.com

Why? Because it's white. Not serious. Kinda. There was a shortage of white x870e options for sure though.

My Gigabyte 4090 has been good to me so far. My previous board was an MSI X570 MEG Unify and now in hindsight I realize it had some kind of electrical issue. There was an audible buzz on my Blue Yeti that completely went away. RAM was weirdly unstable, later the CPUs themselves got weirdly unstable. Especially in low power states... so if I actually used the PC it was fine, but if I went AFK for some hours it seemed to have an escalating chance of crashing. Towards the end the left control button on my keyboard kind of stopped working intermittently. Eventually I had the bright idea to try it elsewhere and it was fine... so I don't know, voltage off? Just noisy on the data kinda like the microphone buzz? Tried different RAM, multiple CPUs... it always worked just well enough but ultimately I wasted a lot of time troubleshooting things and never placed the blame where it belonged.

I haven't had it long, but the Gigabyte has been perfect. Got my advertised DDR5 speeds no problem. Put -10 on the Curve Optimizer, completely stable (didn't bother to try to find the limit). Frame rates are up, stutters are down. I don't use the Wi-Fi so I can't remark on that part, and it's kinda hard to mess up gigabit LAN.

I've only put like a month on it but I have nothing bad to say about it. Kind of wanted to get a 9950x3d but I was striking out, and the 9800x3d finally became available at retail price so here I am.
 
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Boss Mog said:
I'm looking at motherboards myself for a possible 9800X3D build in the coming months. I definitely want an X870E motherboard for the extra PCI-E lanes to accommodate at least two Gen5 SSDs on top of a GPU. I'm eyeing the MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wi-Fi. It's a bit more than I usually put into a motherboard but I feel like prices have gone up on premium boards so I gotta just roll with it. It's nice to see that most premium boards finally use 5Gb ethernet.

I like the Carbon Wi-Fi's clean look and specs, I also love that button next to the bottom right corner of the RAM slots that easily ejects the graphics card from that first PCI-E slot. The connections on the I/O panel are plentiful, with dual LAN which I love but is becoming increasingly rare these days, even on premium boards.

1024_f43429bc-8b26-4d3b-94b3-960c691b100d.png

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All the USB ports are at least 10Gb and there's even two 40Gb USB-C ports that can do DisplayPort.

Anybody here have this motherboard? Would love some feedback on it from somebody that has one.
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"MAny" Pcie lanes are a marketing misnomer, if you use the 2 gen5 slot, your gpu will drop to x8.

the x870e tomahawk is better as it can use 2 gen5 and x16 gpu in full
 
Check all the use cases and the hardware you're going to pair up with the mobo.

From the case (front panel usb, stereo 3.5mm jack out), to the number of SATA hdd's/ssd's you will be using vs the number of M.2 gen 4 ssd's you will be using (there are very few use cases other than gaming, not even gaming uses that much bandwidth yet, that you will drive out of an M.2 gen 4 ssd at speeds above 7 gbps), the ram sticks, cpu cooler (check the dimesions, and if it's suitable with the ram slots filled up and case size)

Make use of what YOU want out of this rig, and forget the myth of "future proofing" when building a new pc.
 
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Gigabyte B650m DS3H v1.3 with 7950x3d and corsair 64gb 6000cl30 EXPO.

all tuned to 6200/2166fclk, tight timings, no overvolt whatsoever, CO per core variable from 0 on best cores to -30. all full rock stable any load.

with 2SSDs pcie4 and a 4080 super

high end/high price motherboard are totally overrated and useful just to brag and flex on r/pcmr in fishtank cases with 30 fans and rgb puke "rate my build" posts
 
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JohnnyFootball JohnnyFootball recommended this video to me for AM5 boards, it's worth a watch although if you're going 9800X3D maybe you want higher end. The channel probably has similar videos though

 
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I have an aorus mini-itx something or other B650. There's only like 4 or 5 mini-itx MB options that you can even choose. This is the only one that gives you 3 NVME slots and that is why I chose it. 3 nvme slots on mini-itx is unheard of.
 
I am ASRocking the B850M Pro-A.

But I wouldn't buy ASRock right now, there is an issue where some 9800/9950X3D CPUs are being killed by ASRock motherboards.
 
MSI X870e carbon wifi

Probably overkill as I do not oc, but I like the flashy lights and tons of USB ports.

The only advice I would give is that when you connect rgb peripherals to the USB ports, just make sure you put them on the same chipset to get the rgb to sync nicely - mind you, it will be pretty obvious if you haven't.
 
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peish said:
"MAny" Pcie lanes are a marketing misnomer, if you use the 2 gen5 slot, your gpu will drop to x8.

the x870e tomahawk is better as it can use 2 gen5 and x16 gpu in full
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PCI-E 5.0 at 8x is more than enough to run a modern GPU at full speed. Bandwidth is doubled every gen so PCI-E 5.0 at 8x is the same as PCI-E 4.0 at 16x.
 
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I'm on 7800x3d but anyway I usually go with aorus or MSI mobos, don't really fancy Asus, asrock usually tend to be good in the midrange too
 
Boss Mog said:
I'm looking at motherboards myself for a possible 9800X3D build in the coming months. I definitely want an X870E motherboard for the extra PCI-E lanes to accommodate at least two Gen5 SSDs on top of a GPU. I'm eyeing the MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wi-Fi. It's a bit more than I usually put into a motherboard but I feel like prices have gone up on premium boards so I gotta just roll with it. It's nice to see that most premium boards finally use 5Gb ethernet.

I like the Carbon Wi-Fi's clean look and specs, I also love that button next to the bottom right corner of the RAM slots that easily ejects the graphics card from that first PCI-E slot. The connections on the I/O panel are plentiful, with dual LAN which I love but is becoming increasingly rare these days, even on premium boards.

1024_f43429bc-8b26-4d3b-94b3-960c691b100d.png

UaiK4g5.jpeg


All the USB ports are at least 10Gb and there's even two 40Gb USB-C ports that can do DisplayPort.

Anybody here have this motherboard? Would love some feedback on it from somebody that has one.
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That's exactly the board I have.

Bought it because of the usb connectivity plus the multitude of m.2 slots.

Also the fact it should support 192gb of ram at 6200. Currently rocking 96gb and will order the extra when I water cool everything on the next month or so. Just been bedding the 5090 in first
 
Thebonehead said:
That's exactly the board I have.

Bought it because of the usb connectivity plus the multitude of m.2 slots.

Also the fact it should support 192gb of ram at 6200. Currently rocking 96gb and will order the extra when I water cool everything on the next month or so. Just been bedding the 5090 in first
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Randall365 said:
MSI X870e carbon wifi

Probably overkill as I do not oc, but I like the flashy lights and tons of USB ports.

The only advice I would give is that when you connect rgb peripherals to the USB ports, just make sure you put them on the same chipset to get the rgb to sync nicely - mind you, it will be pretty obvious if you haven't.
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You guys liking it? Any noteworthy issues?
 
It's been good. I can't remember if I updated the bios when I got it and I have not done any overclocking, but no issues (since getting it in Jan).

Fwiw the rest of my build is gskill drr 5 6000 and an msi suprim 4080 super.
 
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Asrock X870E Nova for me.
Did a BIOS update whilst waiting for the CPU to be delivered.
The Flashback system was easy enough to use. Hassle free, very happy. (BIOS 3.16 if I remember rightly.)

The only tiny gripe I have: there's a very small fan next to the IO panel. It kicks in as soon as I switch the pc on, spins loudly (kinda, might just be me?) for 4 seconds then switches off. (Via a BIOS setting.)
It seems like an odd design to me. Do USB ports etc get really warm to the point they need their own dedicated fan?

tl;dr good board. Had no issues with mine.
 
I have my 9800X3D connected to a ASUS TUF Gaming X870-PLUS WIFI mobo.
No specific reason for why I chose that one, other than it had the specs I wanted and I have good experiences with Asus motherboards.
 
MayauMiao said:
PCIe Gen 5 is over hyped and the advantage is barely noticeable compared to PCIe Gen 4.
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Horseshit when it comes to M2 SSD's. Went from Gen 4 Samsung 990 pro to Crucial Gen 5 T705 and the difference is tangible in everyday use. Especially in load times.

I'm using the Asrock X870E Taichi and have all 5 M2 slots equipped. So far this has been working like a dream. There is supposed to be a FAN for the VRM but so far I havent heard it. Maybe its the case thats blocking the noise. But as people above have said avoid Asrock until the know why the processors are dying on it. That said my friend has a 9800X3D die on a Asus Proart motherboard. So its a bit of a tight rope scenario atm.
 
The ROG Strix X870E-E
Mainly because it has 5 M.2 slots. Although 2 of those slots share bandwidth with the GPU.
 
Boss Mog said:
PCI-E 5.0 at 8x is more than enough to run a modern GPU at full speed. Bandwidth is doubled every gen so PCI-E 5.0 at 8x is the same as PCI-E 4.0 at 16x.
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This is true, but it's more of a principal thing. I'd prefer future graphics cards not be neutered.
 
DeepEnigma said:
I'm leaning towards this board myself.

www.gigabyte.com

X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 (rev. 1.0/1.1) Key Features | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

Lasting Quality from GIGABYTE.GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ motherboards bring together a unique blend of features and technologies that offer users the absolute ultimate platform for...
www.gigabyte.com www.gigabyte.com
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You won't need any more motherboard than this one:


Rock solid stability, fantastic motherboard.

Whatever motherboard you decide on, double check the bifurication for your needs.
 
Jigsaah said:
I'm running a MSI MAG X670E tomahawk wifi. Main reason is it was part of a bundle at Microcenter at the time. I got it on launch day back in November and it was the only way to guarantee I'd snag one. Regular retail it goes for about 250 bucks...which seems a bit expensive honestly.

I didn't want to jump straight into the X870 mobos because they just recently got their shit together with the BIOS version on the X670s. I feared the new gen might have issues as well that would take months to fix.
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skneogaf said:
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I saw a YouTube video that said it was one if the better ones and it was in a bundle, it is the best motherboard I've owned as it ticks every box I had.
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I run the B650 version of the MSI Tomahawk board. Rock solid board after the initial bios update.
 
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