How to verify motherboard, CPU and GPUs are compatible with one another
Does the MSI MEG x570 ACE support 3600 MHz ram and a ryzen 7 5800X3D?
The specific motherboad website has a compatibility chart for memory and CPUs.
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Can anyone else confirm the bottom m2_3 slot is the one associated with the CPU?
Best X570 Ace review.
Except for the overclock dial, I can confirm pretty much everything else Level1 describes. Been using for a couple months now.
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Looking to fulfill a bucket list item this summer: build a super-beefy PC from scratch. Processing-power-wise, I want an AMD/Intel CPU that has high clock speed and at least 8 cores. I also want to have at least 3 high-quality GPU cards on this thing.
I figure (keep me honest!) the best place to start is to select the CPU, the GPUs and the motherboard, since they define most of the compute specs on the machine, and I reckon its easier to find memory cards, network cards and disks that will be compatible with everything else, so long as the CPU GPUs and Motherboard are all fully compatible with one another.
I will be running modern Ubuntu Server on this thing, not Windows, and I wanted to call that out in case that raises some red flags with anyone, concerning drivers, architectures, etc.
After some careful searching of the desired specs and price points, here's what I've cooked up:
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Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 ACE
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
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GPUs (3 of them): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Each of these meets the individual specs and price points that would satisfy my needs. From what I can tell, none of them preclude the use of Ubuntu (I was able to find Linux drivers for the NVIDIA GPUs), and the CPU/Motherboard both appear to use the same AM4 socket. I believe the NVIDIA GPU cards would all slide into the PCI slots on the motherboard, and that the motherboard does in fact have 3 such PCI slots for 3 GPU cards. And I believe the motherboard has Gigabit wifi and ethernet cards built into it, and 4 DIMM slots for memory.
The only thing I don't see is what options this motherboard leaves me for solid state disk storage.
So at first glance, to the untrained eye, these options are all compatible with one another. But if they are not, this will be an extremely expensive mistake! So I ask: can anyone who does this all the time as a hobby spot any incompatibilities, caveats, non-starters, deal-breakers or otherwise red flags as to why these 3 parts are not going to work together? Thanks in advance for any-and-all help!
I already have the ram and CPU, and have a buddy who will sell me his MSI MEG. Any compatibility issues here or am I good to go?