Want To Buy Asus X570 Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) or Asus X570 E-Gaming for Ryzen 9 5950X?

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I'm planning to upgrade from X570 E-Gaming to Crosshair VIII Hero for my AMD 5950X? Is it worth upgrading?
Need Suggestions !
Regards

 

[Simonsayz]

I have the C8H running 3900X, it's beefier than the other lower-end x570 boards in terms of VRMs, will certainly keep the 5950X fed properly, but so will the x570 E-Gaming under normal loads. It's at near full loads or sustained loads that you will feel the difference.

There is a common understanding that you need beefier VRMs ONLY IF you are going to overclock but it is different in the case of AMD's Zen 2 or 3 chips. AMD's Zen 2 or 3 don't overclock much, but instead, if you cool & feed them properly then they achieve and sustain the advertised Max Boost Clock more often.

What you need to understand is that with Zen 2 onwards, AMD chips behave differently than intel. While there is a lot of headroom for overclock in intel chips provided enough power & cooling, AMD chips on the other have relatively less headroom, instead these are designed to utilise the chip's full (safe) potential if circumstances permit right out of the box. You can still overclock them further but not by a lot. But when there are this many cores, every 100Mhz makes a LOT of difference, believe me, my 3900X on an ALL core sustained 4.6 Ghz gets a LOT done really fast.

So, now with sufficient back knowledge, we can answer your question that it would be a worthy upgrade but you'll need to cool it properly and feed it with a good quality PSU, which I'm sure you already have.

 

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Thanks for the info @Simonsayz