Motherboard choice

Hello,

I am building a rig for music production wit the intent of altering live instruments with effects.

I have a Focusrite Clarett sound card with Thunderbolt, so Thunderbolt will be necessary on my motherboard.

I can see that the Taichi is an option, with an expansion card. I believe there is another similar MB with this support which I can't recall.

The boards with thunderbolt in built are the Phnatom Gaming TB3 and the yet to be released Creator board. And that crazy expensive one with liquid cooling.

I have the 3900x CPU.

I'd like to max out the RAM as much as I can. Am I at a disadvantage by opting for the smaller Phantom Gaming ITX board over a bigger one?

Asrock_fan_01 wrote: Hello, I am building a rig for music production wit the intent of altering live instruments with effects. I have a Focusrite Clarett sound card with Thunderbolt, so Thunderbolt will be necessary on my motherboard. I can see that the Taichi is an option, with an expansion card. I believe there is another similar MB with this support which I can't recall. The boards with thunderbolt in built are the Phnatom Gaming TB3 and the yet to be released Creator board. And that crazy expensive one with liquid cooling. I have the 3900x CPU. I'd like to max out the RAM as much as I can. Am I at a disadvantage by opting for the smaller Phantom Gaming ITX board over a bigger one?

An ITX board will limit your RAM capacity, 2 DIMMs as opposed to 4. I would avoid ITX if RAM is a focus for your build, nice as a small system may be in a studio setup, it's not worth the trade off IMO.

Oh, I didn't realise. Thanks

Asrock_fan_01 wrote: Thanka very much for your replies guys. Regarding the RAM, is two sticks of 32Gb RAM going to be much slower than splitting it into 4 slots?

If they have same frequency, two of 16Gb rams are better.