Question ASRock X570 Steel Legend vs ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus Wi-Fi ?

[renmrb]

I'm upgrading my PC after several years, and I've received my processor; I'm just missing the motherboard and a cooler for the processor. Some of my components are quite old, for instance, the power supply, which is about to hit the 10-year mark. However, I tried to save as much as possible by buying a used processor, the fastest RAM I could find on sale, two 1TB NVMe drives for a possible RAID 0 setup, and to purchase the best possible graphics card.

Here's my configuration:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
RAM: 2x16GB Kingston Fury Renegade 3600MHz CL16
SSD: 2x1TB Kingston NVMe M.2 SNV2S/1000G PCIE 4.0
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
PSU: Corsair TX750 V2
Case: Corsair Carbide 200r
Monitor: 1440p@165Hz
TV: 2160p@60Hz

Now, I have two motherboard options at the same price:
1. ASRock X570 Steel Legend
2. ASUS TUF Gaming X570-plus Wi-Fi

Could an expert who knows the difference between the two help me? What will I gain or lose by choosing each of them? And will I need a water cooler? Maybe a 140mm one, I'm not sure.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

two 1TB NVMe drives for a possible RAID 0 setup

why would you want to create a RAID configuration?

you'd be much better off with a single drive for the OS & apps,
a larger separate drive for game installations,
and another large separate drive for storage and/or backups.

 

[renmrb]

why would you want to create a RAID configuration?

you'd be much better off with a single drive for the OS & apps,
a larger separate drive for game installations,
and another large separate drive for storage and/or backups.

Dunno, never used RAID with NVME, only with HDs. But I have 2 now, why not?

Edit: I use Adobe After Effects for some simple tasks. Btw I have also 2x4TB HDs, I use a lot of storage.

 

[Viking2121]

I got the Asus board and its ok, not terrible, I can't say anything about the ASRock board. They are pretty much identical, really it comes down to features and aesthetics.

My take on Raid 0, I use to do just that on a Threadripper machine for the main m.2 SSD, was it worth it, in my opinion, no. Windows stops feeling fast after so much, even a cheap m.2 SSD capable of over 2,000mb/s reads and writes its so hard to tell the difference once the latency of the storage is no longer a bottleneck that I find Raid 0 myself to be a waste of time for something so fast. Raid 0 sats SSD's eh sure, some thing can and will see a benefit with nearly double the sata speeds, Latency wont improve.

Now if you don't have or not going to care about the data you will put on them, then hey, knock your self out, Just I would avoid putting anything on them that isn't backed up, SSD's often don't give any warning when they fail, unlike an HDD, so just make sure you have a backup of a backup, and another backup off sight for the optimal backing up, a lot of back up that sentence lol.

Good Luck!

 

[renmrb]

I got the Asus board and its ok, not terrible, I can't say anything about the ASRock board. They are pretty much identical, really it comes down to features and aesthetics.

My take on Raid 0, I use to do just that on a Threadripper machine for the main m.2 SSD, was it worth it, in my opinion, no. Windows stops feeling fast after so much, even a cheap m.2 SSD capable of over 2,000mb/s reads and writes its so hard to tell the difference once the latency of the storage is no longer a bottleneck that I find Raid 0 myself to be a waste of time for something so fast. Raid 0 sats SSD's eh sure, some thing can and will see a benefit with nearly double the sata speeds, Latency wont improve.

Now if you don't have or not going to care about the data you will put on them, then hey, knock your self out, Just I would avoid putting anything on them that isn't backed up, SSD's often don't give any warning when they fail, unlike an HDD, so just make sure you have a backup of a backup, and another backup off sight for the optimal backing up, a lot of back up that sentence lol.

Good Luck!

My plan is to use RAID 0 on the two SSDs and partition 500GB for the Operating System, Apps, and active files. 1.5TB for games. 4TB for photos, videos, installations, etc. And 4TB for backup. I think I'll benefit from RAID 0 for data transfer to a 1GB/s USB drive, at least. I'm not sure, I've never tested it.

Thanks!