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Hardware Total 428 = 95+178+115+40

• Ryzen 7 - AM4 or AM5 ?

AM4 / DDR4 / PCIe Gen 4

• Ryzen 9 5950X - 340€
  • 16core / 32threads - PCIe 4.0 sur les cartes mères X570 et B550.
• Ryzen 7 5800X - 178€
  • 8core / 16threads - PCIe 4.0
• Ryzen 7 5700X - 165€

Motherboard
B550M PRO supports PCIe 4.0 (on 5XXX series)/3.0* depends on installed processor

• MSI A520M Pro - 75€ - doc/pdf - A series - low cost (but price close to a B series in which case not recommended)
  • support Ryzen 9 5950X
• ASRock B550M-HDV - 90€
  • usb 3.0 / Mauvaises VRMs
• GIGABYTE Carte Mere B550M DS3H - 95€ - doc

Better VRM

• B550M Pro-VDH - 93€ - doc
  • water-pump fan connector
  • Flash BIOS button
  • VGA
• B550M AORUS ELITE - 105€

Memory 64Go

• DDR4 - 115€

Need a extra ventirad for this game of cpu

• ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360 - 77€ AIO - good but doesn’t fit in my case
• Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE - 38€
• Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 - 40€ - review

AM5 - disregarded because of increasing price

• Motherboard - buy B650 / B850 (same chipset) or X670E / X870E (same chipset)

• DDR5 - 181€

Don’t buy B840 motherboard - limited to PCIe Gen 3 - A series in disguised

• AM5 / DDR5 / PCIe Gen 4 x16
  • ASUS Prime B650M-R - 131€
  • ASUS Prime B650M-K - 121€
  • MSI PRO B650M-B - 113€ - LAN 2.5 GbE
  • GIGABYTE B650M S2H - 109€ - doc

Price per core

• AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
• AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (lab) vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

GPU

• check that is PCIe Gen 4 - by x8 or x16 ?
• 16Go
• AMD
  • RX 6600 - 8GO / 260€
  • RX 6800 XT - 12GO / 363€
  • RX 7600 XT - 16Go / 400€
  • RX 7900 XTX - 20Go / 800€

see also

• Best Ryzen Motherboard 2024 - FALL UPDATE. Ryzen 9000 7000 5000 CPUs (9800X3D, 7600X, 5600X)
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  • the biggest issue continues to be graphics cards with only 8 GB of vram
• AMD Reveals RX 9070 XT, FSR 4, New X3D CPUs - Full Details