Re: Suggestions for Ryzen 9 motherboards

On 2025-01-28T17:06:42.000+01:00, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM Paul Floyd wrote:
>>  On 26/12/2024 17:30, Daniel Engberg wrote:
>>  
>>   Good board however there's very little that justifies the
>>  difference in price between X670E and X870E variants (spend that
>>  on a cooler instead). You can find a short summary here,
>>  https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1fpk3cq/proart_x870ecreator_wifi_vs_proart_x670ecreator/
>>  . Graphics is integrated in the CPU so choice of motherboard
>>  doesn't matter in that regard. Without looking too much it's
>>  probably going to be a bit rough using 6.1 as a base. (My box is
>>  headless)
>>  
>>   I went with a Asus Rog Strix in the end.
>>  
>>   6.1 does seem a bit rough, it gave me a kernel panic when I
>>  loaded it.
> 
> Can you please report back on how stable is FreeBSD on that
> hardware?
> 
> I am thinking about moving 14.2-RELEASE to new hardware very soon
> with
> 
> AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU (Zen5) and also some ASUS mobo (either X870E
> or
> 
> X670E not sure yet).
> 
> I plan to buy 6000MHz RAM in 64..96..128..192GB size for a ramdisk
> to
> 
> speed up build times.
> 
> This will be my development workstation and I also need good stable
> 3D
> 
> with multimonitor+rotation setup for CAD and multimedia so scfb
> 
> fallback is not an option because it does not support
> 
> multimonitor+rotation without gpu drivers even with no 3d
> 
> acceleration.
> 
> I will definitely buy second hand NVIDIA GPU because I am sick tired
> 
> of AMDGPU stability problems with my RX580 and I dont believe modern
> 
> built-in GPU will even work. After move to 14.2 (and drm-61-kmod) it
> 
> does not panic as on 14.0/5.15 but it gets hiccups that require
> 
> reboot.. far from 13.3/5.10 stability.. so I am considering just
> 
> replacing GPU and use nvidia drivers :-(
> 
> -- 
> 
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info

Stability is excellent using Asus ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI and a
Ryzen 7900 at least, some platform support bits a missing like no way
to monitor CPU boost etc. You can however roughly monitor CPU feq.
Anything faster than 5600MT for memory is overclocking and in most
cases to very little benefit. If you utilize 4 DIMMs it's go down to
3600 with 2R sticks and possibly bit faster with 1R (official specs
states 3600 however). Intel ARC is probably your best bet in the long
run however 6.1 is too hold even for the A-series.

Best regards,

Daniel