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On 12/4/22 11:22, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
  As for motherboard.  I'm a realtek bigot. Don't want anything from them and actively seek out intel NICs. Those 2 Ryzen systems have Asus B450 ROG motherboards with identical firmware and a Intel i211 NIC each.  The second MB arrived last year with the correct support for the Ryzen 5xxx series, so any FUD about needing a BIOS update isn't really valid, unless you get it used.

The ROG series seem to be the only B550's that use Intel NICs. The ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming has 2x M.2 slots
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ROG-B550-F-Motherboard-Addressable/dp/B088W7RKVZ

If you already have a GPU that you like, maybe the 5600X would be a good option. Same for the 5700?  Both are 65W CPUs. The performance difference between all the 5600 CPUs/APU is fairly small. Ref the passmarks.

Most of the time I have an xterm doing the whole screen. I'm not sure how much I care about graphics, except that keeping two monitors would be nice.

Did a compatible RAM search on the Asus website for the B550 MB, 5600G CPU and found a few 4x32G RAM configurations in the tested APL, so I'd double check that 128GB of RAM is not supported, since it appears that it is.

Do you have a URL for the RAM compatibility chart?

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