Hey guys, I'm at least looking for 1 motherboard to attach to my Spotswood Custom Bench and run f@h at full tilt on my GPU's. My plan is to liquidate the GPU's on the bench currently on eBay at the inflated prices to collect capital to help purchase the bajillion EVGA notifies I have coming up soon. I'm going to be utilizing my Best Buy Credit Card for 0% so I can keep my liquid funds available for the GPU purchases. If you see something else on Best Buy I should be considering, please let me know. It seems like I'd be saving some money by going with 11th Gen Intel. I haven't really had the time yet to research the variances between it and AMD as far as PCI-E lanes are concerned, but if you know this has limitations vs AMD current gen, please let me know.
1) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-prime-z590-a-socket-lga-1200-usb-3-2-intel-motherboard/6452561.p?skuId=6452561 which has 3x x16, 3x m.2. $279.99
2) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/gigabyte-b550-aorus-pro-ac-am4-usb-3-1-amd-motherboard-with-wifi-black/6420397.p?skuId=6420397 which has 3x x16 and 2x m.2 $199.99
3) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-mpg-z590-gaming-edge-wifi-socket-lga1200-intel-motherboard/6455359.p?skuId=6455359 which has 3x x16 and 3x m.2 $329.99
4) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/gigabyte-z590-ud-ac-socket-lga-1200-usb-3-2-intel-motherboard-with-rgb-lighting/6454643.p?skuId=6454643 which has 2x x16 and 3x m.2 $209.99
5) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-z590-a-pro-socket-1200-usb-c-gen-2-intel-atx-motherboard-pcie-gen-2/6455363.p?skuId=6455363 which has 2x x16 and 3x m.2 $189.99
I don't need a big CPU, but I do want PCI-E 4.0, so I was looking at:
1) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/intel-core-i5-11400-11th-generation-6-core-12-thread-2-6-to-4-4-ghz-lga1200-locked-desktop-processor/6452218.p?skuId=6452218 $189.99
2) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/amd-ryzen-5-5600x-4th-gen-6-core-12-threads-unlocked-desktop-processor-with-wraith-stealth-cooler/6438943.p?skuId=6438943 $299.99
There are more boards, I just put these ones in my cart to review later, but losing SATA slots when PCI-E is in use is not a big deal at all to me. I've only read 2 of the motherboard manuals so far, but that was common on the z590 boards. What I have not tested is m.2 slots at x4 on 3.0. I have a feeling those would bottlekneck anything at or above a 3080?
Should I really be looking at server boards instead? If everything's planning to be current gen GPU's, it seems like I should be, but the cost appears to go way up.
My Notifies: