Considering upgrading my gaming rig with the following bundle ->
I have a GeForce RTX 3070 which I will keep and I am running Linux Mint 21.2. Any thoughts on compatibility? Any one running one of these ASUS B650-E TUF Gaming motherboards under Linux? Mint?
Edit: Thanks for all the great advice. It seems like I should spend just a few more dollars to get the Gigabyte B650 Gaming X AX v2:
I have a Gigabyte B650 skew and I’m happy with it, I think the X670’s are overpriced for general use tbh and the 7800X3D was my first choice but it was way too expensive where I live so I got the 7900x. I’m not sure if its still a thing but when I was buying last year, it was recommended to go with 6000 or lower speeds for AMD CPUs for better stability so that should be fine for you.
I’m in Europe so I can’t comment on value because its completely different over here and also Microcenter is auto blocking me anyway lol
There was an issue with Over Current Protection on AM5 motherboards when EXPO is enabled that can cause the CPU (especially X3D) to die.
GamersNexus has a few videos on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiTngvvD5dI&t=0
So I would defintely recommend checking Asus’s website to see what firmware version they recommend using and upgrading to that before anything else.
Thanks that is super-helpful! There is also a Gigabyte option that is only moderately more expensive. I will check it out!
TBH I usually wouldn’t recommend one vendor over another when it comes to motherboards because realistically nobody spends much time in the BIOS anyway, I’d just suggest the one that has the features you actually want but as the other comment pointed out Asus has been pretty crappy with customer repairs and warranty stuff so it might be worth spending a little bit more in case you do have an issue down the line but that’s completely up to you, I have no idea if Gigabyte is better to deal with than Asus, but I do remember they had issues with exploding PSUs before lol
Asus Warranty and Repair Issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY&t=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3DwhTc7Z4o&t=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdtpU8FKO8&t=0
Asus issues related to AM5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbGfc-JBxlY&t=0
Gigabyte’s Exploding PSUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aACtT_rzToI&t=0