Re: Good motherboard for Ryzen (first-gen)

From: Eric van Gyzen <eric_at_vangyzen.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:40:34 -0500
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
Received on Thu Oct 11 2018 - 18:40:44 UTC

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