Good motherboard for Ryzen (first-gen)
Eric van Gyzen
eric at vangyzen.net
Thu Oct 11 20:40:44 UTC 2018
On 9/21/18 9:53 PM, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> I would like to build a Ryzen desktop. Can anyone recommend a good
> motherboard?
>
> I'm planning on a first-gen, because the second-gen has similar
> stability problems as the first-gen had, and AMD hasn't released errata
> for the second-gen yet (as far as I know...I would love to be wrong).
>
> I would like to be a cool kid with a Threadripper, but I can't justify
> the cost, so I'm thinking maybe a Ryzen 7 with /only/ 8 cores. :)
>
> Ideally, I want an Intel NIC, ECC memory support, and a 3-year warranty.
Thanks for all the responses. They were very helpful. Here is what I
ended up building:
Mobo: ASUS Prime X470-Pro
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2 x 16GB DDR4-2666 PC4-21300 C16
Video: ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Disk: Samsung 970 EVO 500GB TLC NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 750 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX
Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Universal CPU Cooler
It's running FreeBSD head. BIOS version is 4018 (2018-07-12). So far,
it has been perfectly stable. No crashes, no lockups. It has been my
work-from-home desktop for just over a week now. I'm overclocking the
memory a little, but nothing else. The NIC works. The sound works,
though I've only tested the rear analog output. The video card works
with the nvidia-driver, currently 390.87. It's driving two 2560x1440
monitors over HDMI.
The only problem so far: I can't get NUMA enabled. I've set Memory
Interleave to "off", but the BIOS still doesn't generate an ACPI SRAT
table. I'm still working on this.
Eric
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