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Motherboard

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AMD X570 Motherboard - I think I need an X rather than a B to use the faster PCIe 4.0 speed on the NVMe (possibly not?)

You asked for it, I am again going to link to the same post that previously failed to convince Mudspikers not to get an X570 board.

NVIDIA RTX 3000 series

I know there’s many choices, but allow me to help you on one thing that I often see people gloss over. If you go for Ryzen 5000, don’t even consider an X570 motherboard, just go for a B550 board. You can get a much higher quality board for a lower price that way. The X570 chipset’s advantage over B550 is only relevant if you want to connect more than 1 NVMe drive of the 4.0 variety. “Normal” superfast NVMe drives are PCI 3.0, which is already insanely fast. Many people go for X570 because the…

The short version is: B550 allows enough PCI-E 4.0 lanes for one GPU and one NVMe drive.
Other pros are that B550 boards do not have a cooling fan and cost about half as much, all other things being equal.
I don’t see a problem with the second NVMe drive being PCI 3.0, but if you think the possibility of having the second NVMe drive be 4.0 instead of 3.0 is worth a hundred bucks, then you would need to get X570.

CPU

I also think you shouldn’t need all those cores on the 5900X. Single core performance is very comparable to 5800X, and not a lot better than 5600X even, though I can understand wanting more than 6 cores.