Asus Prime B450 M-A paired with Ryzen 5800X 3D offers a powerful setup.
Asus Prime B450 M-A paired with Ryzen 5800X 3D offers a powerful setup.
Hello, your current setup includes an Asus Prime B450 M-A with a Ryzen 3600 Aegis 32GB RAM at 3000MHz. You're considering switching to a 5800X 3D processor. Your question is whether your motherboard can support it. Your 3600 is already overclocked to 4.0 across all cores and relies on automatic tuning from Ryzen Master; the VRMs might be the bottleneck. You mentioned you don’t want to overclock the 5800X, and you’re aware that PCI 3.0 is in use, though the performance gain from moving to PCI 4.0 isn’t significant. You’d prefer to avoid any additional motherboard upgrades if possible.
Yeah, unfortunately my budget was pretty tight when I bought the PC originally. I upgraded my case, PSU and GPU and added another 16GB of RAM relatively recently. The only thing I would upgrade my MB for would be to get another M.2 slot, but I don't think it's worth it that much, I might just get a SATA SSD at some point. It'll be used for games only anyways. Thank you for the insight.