Re: Suggestions for Ryzen 9 motherboards

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM Daniel Engberg
<daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net> wrote:
> On 2025-01-28T17:06:42.000+01:00, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
> (..)
> 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 :-(
>
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> 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.

Thank you Daniel :-) Stability is what I need so I can focus on work
or just switch to MacStudio and forget Open Source OS on desktop.. no
problems with M2 controller sound ethernet etc? :-)

So its better to buy 2 big RAM chips only it will be faster than 4 chips?? o_O

I will try with nvidia 1030 or 1060 GPU that should be old enough to
work fine I dont need anything more :-)

All modern mobos seems to be gaming only and have one or two PCI-E
slots which is a bit scarry as I have some extra cards and these will
be lost :-( But hey these all now have WIFI with big antennas lol ;-)

These ASUS CREATOR are not available right now.. price was ~$600..
similar powerful ASUS mainboards cost ~$800 (STRIX or CROSSHAIR with
X870E) which is acceptable difference for me to spent once per 10
years.. and there are much cheaper ones with B650/B850 and X670/X870
chipset for just ~$200..300 what about B650/B850/X670/X870 chipset?
:-)

Thanks :-)
Tomek

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