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Hardware Total 465 = 95+178+115+77

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

• AM5 CPU to avoid

• Ryzen 7 - AM4 or AM5 ?
• Motherboard - buy B650 / B850 (same chipset) or X670E / X870E (same chipset)
• 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

• 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€

• AM4 / DDR4 / PCIe Gen 3/4

  • MSI A520M Pro - 75€ - doc/pdf - A series - low cost (but price close to a B series in which case not recommended) - B550M PRO supports PCIe 4.0 (on 5XXX series)/3.0* depends on installed processor
    • 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€
• nvme
• 64Go
  • DDR4 - 115€
  • DDR5 - 181€
• need a extra ventirad for this game of cpu
  • ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360 - 77€ AIO
  • Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE - 38€

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)
• Avoid These PC Parts in 2025!
  • 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