B850 Motherboard w/ 9800x3d and 5080
Posted by Drummer_boi@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 5 comments
My first choice was the ASRock X870E Nova. This motherboard had everything I wanted. I have since changed my mind due to the amount of CPU burn ups that are happening.
TBH, I am also not sure I need an X870E Motherboard. I am now looking at the Gigabyte AORUS ELITE Ice B850. I do not know exactly what I am looking for when looking at motherboards other than features like enough USB connectors.
One main difference I saw was the VRM of the ASRock is 20+2+1 while the Gigabyte is 14+2+2
I have looked up VRM and I understand what it does but maybe I do not fully understand the importance.
Am I looking into this too much? Will the B850 work well with the 980x3d and 5080?
ToraSapphire@reddit
even B650 will do fine, just get one that's well specced with power delivery and has the featureset you want. 20+2+1 power phases is giga overkill, the Gigabyte you are eyeing with 14+2+2 (slightly better than my AsRock B650 PG Lightning's 14+2+1) will be more than fine especially if you're running the 9800x3d as stock. the 5080 should be more dependent on your power supply than the motherboard.
Drummer_boi@reddit (OP)
That makes sense that the 5080 is more dependent on the power supply. I appreciate the info! Thank you!
ziptofaf@reddit
To be fair if you have many USB devices then this is one of the most important criteria when choosing the board, unironically. Now, as for other factors that you may or may not care about:
a) USB4 support - only guaranteed by X870. Matters if you are planning to use external large sized drives, need USB-C video output, for some reason want to plug in an external video card.
b) WiFi. Whether there even is one at all and how fast it should be. On a cheapest basic B650 board you might be getting a basic Wifi5 chip that realistically gets you like 200Mb/s. On X870 you might be getting WiFi 7 with external antennas that can exceed 1Gb/s.
c) Debug features - LEDs telling you what's wrong, reset BIOS button, a full error code display.
d) Out of case features - reset/power switch directly on a motherboard. Useful for open desk benches.
e) Networking - 1Gb/s vs 2.5 vs 5 vs 10.
f) Sound chip used, built-in amplifier
g) Layout - number of NVMe slots, distance from GPU slot to next PCIe port, 2 vs 4 RAM slots
h) Extensions - additional PCIe ports - is it just a single 3.0 x1 or is it 4.0 x4 for instance.
For majority of PCs any half decent B850 is fine. Since you probably run a basic CPU + single GPU + 1 NVMe drive setup and may or may not need WiFi at all. But obviously "majority" is not everyone - eg. there are boards that support dual GPUs through x8/x8 split :) Not useful for gaming, can be very useful for rendering or AI for instance.
Drummer_boi@reddit (OP)
Thank you for this! very informative!
whomad1215@reddit
Any mobo that isn't the cheapest available will work fine