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5900X?
Chipset?
B450
B550
X570
Wait!
Wasn’t there an issue with AMD and the Reverb G2…?
I’m happy with X570, but there are many debates on this question. Pre Zen 5 support, but this is a good article comparing X570 with B550. There are many YT videos as well.
No factor.
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Has it been fixed, or is my memory playing tricks with my brain?
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It’s been fixed
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TR 3960X / GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS PRO / 64GB DDR 4
Looks nice? 
(I’m clueless on AMD stuff)
You understand the Threadripper are their industrial workstation/server grade processors, right? Like Xeon. So it will make it all a lot more expensive and less user friendly. Is there any special reason behind this need? Those are power hungry beasts with specialized chipsets to boot.
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I’m thinking of the 5900X… Should I reconsider?
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Well you know my answer. Put that on a nice board with good cooling and 64GB 3200/3600 DDR4 RAM with good timings and you have an absolute monster of a rig
You understand that 3090 cost over $3000, right? 
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Outrageous! Nobody in their right mind would pay that! 
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What’s considered good timings?
I know good times…
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5900X is good. The bump up would be the 5950X I guess - UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs 5950X
Doesn’t seem worth it unless you do video etc? Mind you, more games are using more threads in these modern times, it’s just the sims that tend to be single threaded. You want to make sure you feed that 3090 as much meat as it can get!
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Oh yeah, I’d recommend that for 90% of people. This is super high-end by today standards while offering some semblance of value. You could get the 5950x and gain some extra performance (the tangibility remains to be discussed for particular use cases, since most of the extra performance is for multi-threaded applications) for a big bump in cost. With the 5900x you are in the top 5% processor battle. With the 5950x you are in the best of best (consumer grade). But yeah, if relatively speaking the difference in price won’t actually make that much difference overall (for very high cost builds), I can see a point in going 5950x and buying the best of best.
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The problem is that you sacrifice single threaded performance, probably because of the power constrains. Threadripper cannot match the clock speeds of Ryzen 5900…
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3600 CL15/CL16, 3200 CL14/CL15, something like that.
Personally I have 3600 CL17 because that was the fastest 64GB kit they had in stock when I ordered my parts and I didn’t want to wait
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Thanks for that. I’ve purposely been holding off on the mobo/CPU purchase until I got a better idea and your post moves me along. Yeah, looking like AMD and SM4 mobo with the 5900X. I really need to get as much mileage out of this next purchase as I can. As I’m flight sim only this is all sounding good.
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Full disclaimer I’m not a specialist. I know some of this because I used to do a lot more video post-production in the past, and I happen to have built a gaming PC a couple of months ago so I spent the last 6-8 months obsessively researching the internet, only to be graced with a performance increase very close to what I predicted!
(I want to start streaming, for instance, but haven’t much experience with that yet for example…)
Understood. Your goals align well with mine and any help/info is appreciated, esp. since we likely have the same target software in mind (flight sims)
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