Since the release of the 5900x and 5950x CPU's, I have seen reviews on the most popular tech sites that pair these procs with either the MSI Godlike or Asus Crosshair MB's. I listed over a dozen. So, has anyone seen these procs reviewed with Gigabyte's flagship, the Aorus Xtreme ? Just bad luck I guess that the major reviewers don't have this board or is the MSRP too high and it is dismissed ? Thanks for any response - I may have missed something.
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You buy different motherboards for different extra features. Not because the CPU would perform differently.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
AMD's auto-overclocking tools (PBO and the like) are able to use real-time sensors to dynamically adjust clocks and voltages to optimize the performance. You, as a person just pulling on BIOS exposed parameters, are only going to be able to do so much. For most cases, the built-in tools are going to give you better overall performance. There are a few corner cases you might be able to win with all-core fixed clocks, but not many.
For the record, Intel has the same tools - it's just that their CPUs are physically laid out different (monolithic vs chiplets), so you can still get decent all-core overclocks on an Intel chip and beat out the built-in tools in some cases. Larger core counts from Intel are starting to buck this trend though.
The biggest thing for PBO and the like is cooling. The motherboard does play some, but it's a pretty minor role - maybe 100 Mhz at the top sustained clock (at least until you start pushing LN2 and really strain the VRMs). Since temperature is one of the inputs into that dynamic clock equation, the cooler you can keep the chip, the faster and longer it will try to boost, and a good cooler is the difference between holding 4.6Ghz and 3.8 Ghz under load.
GPUs can still be overclocked, but that's mostly just because AIBs like to have different SKUs and want to sell you a pre-binned pre-overclocked card. Similar auto-overclocking tools on GPUs exist, and overclocking over there is usually just a matter of undervolting a bit and giving the card a bit more TDP headroom and letting the existing Boost algorithm do it's thing.
Pick a motherboard that you like that has the features you need. They will all perform similarly. To see the difference in performance between a $150 and $700 board will take custom water loops or LN2 cooling.
Personally, I've had good luck with Asus and Gigabyte. I've heard good things about MSI but I've not tried one of their boards. A lot of folks swear by Asrock, as they tend to be a bit lower cost, but they tend to have thinner PCBs and the motherboards feel flimsy to me, so I've steered clear - but in all fairness most people seem to be pretty happy with them.
0.00875*1000 = 8.75ns
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.