MSI x870e Godlike or Asrock x870e Taichi?

[Holyblades82]

I will be upgrading my 9900ks system very shortly to a 9950x3d or 9800x3d and I am torn between these 2 motherboards. I've seen the Godlike board shares bandwidth on the PCI-E and M.2 slots and not sure if this would really impact me. I am running a 4090 (possibly 5090 eventually), 4TB Samsung 990 Pro in the first slot and 2TB 980 Pro in the second slot. I currently have a MSI Z390 Godlike mobo and I haven't had a single issue with it and it overclocks very well. I know the price on the MSI board is pretty crazy but I'm really just aiming for the best board possible.

 

[Woomack]

9950X3D is expected to be available in March, so if "shortly," then I guess 9800X3D. I see that the 9800X3D prices and availability are improving right now.
I assume that in 99.5% of cases, you won't see the difference between these two mobos, while ASRock is significantly cheaper. I had no problems at all with the Taichi, but I didn't have the Godlike in my hands. If I'm right, then @EarthDog reviewed both of them.

 

[Holyblades82]

Oh I was under the impression these chips were going to be released end of this month or beginning of Feb. Yea I didn't think I would see too much of a performance difference with them but I see a lot of talk about the lane sharing. I'm going to hold off a bit until we get some 9950X3D numbers but will most likely wait a few months to upgrade. Appreciate it!

 

[Woomack]

I was thinking of getting 9950X as a replacement for the 7950X I use for reviews. Ultimately, the performance gain was not worth it, so I thought I would wait for the 9950X3D. However, it was delayed from the end of Jan/early Feb to sometime in March. In the end, I will probably skip the CPU upgrade, but we will see.

 

[Dolk]

Godlike is the only motherboard that doesn't share PCIe slots with M.2s, at least for the Gen 5 slots. I almost returned my Crosshair for the better M.2 layout that the godlike offers.

If you want more m.2 space that doesn't impact PCIe slot plug in usage, than godlike is where you go. Else all the other boards are pretty much the same, it just comes down to which bios you want to deal with. Asrock Taichi is a great board and very popular this generation.

 

[Woomack]

All mobos don't share PCIe lanes with the top M.2 socket. The difference is only with "bottom" sockets. On the other hand, I highly doubt anyone will use PCIe 5.0 SSD under the graphics card slot (with the graphics card) because it will overheat, or there won't be space to install it with a proper heatsink.
RAID is almost pointless on NVMe SSDs, and I doubt many people use 3+ SSDs. Paying 30-40% more for the motherboard because you lose one M.2 socket avoiding PCIe slot lane sharing doesn't seem like a good idea.

 

[EarthDog]

All mobos don't share PCIe lanes with the top M.2 socket. The difference is only with "bottom" sockets. On the other hand, I highly doubt anyone will use PCIe 5.0 SSD under the graphics card slot (with the graphics card) because it will overheat, or there won't be space to install it with a proper heatsink.
RAID is almost pointless on NVMe SSDs, and I doubt many people use 3+ SSDs. Paying 30-40% more for the motherboard because you lose one M.2 socket avoiding PCIe slot lane sharing doesn't seem like a good idea.

This.

Taichi. There's no need for the what the Godlike offers.


Any 5.0 lane sharing would be on a board that offers 2+ M.2 5.0 sockets (IIRC, it shares with the PCIe 5.0 x16 slot). One 5.0 M.2 socket doesn't mess with anything (there are 24 lanes of 5.0 through the CPU).

 

[BroderickPrescott]

Thank you so much for the info.