So since my previous laptop was really bad, I went ahead and did a temporary build with some money I had now and continued to save up money for this build. I ended up choosing Ryzen for my platform and went with the Ryzen 5 2600. I know I talked about x299 before on this thread but obviously that's a bit too overkill, a bit too hot and power demanding, and a bit too much of a waste of money. I figured I could use my Ryzen 5 2600 I have now plus my Trident Z RGB ram for a Ryzen build in this case. It's a very capable 6 core processor which is all I'll ever need and I think I will go with GTX 1170 SLI to pair with it. Plus when 3rd gen Ryzen or even later generations come out, I could very easily upgrade to those. So for the motherboard - I know AsRock's X370 board worked quite well for bifurcation and SLI as
@LukeD tested. I figured that when their X470 board came out, it would be the same story, and infact be even better for this build, not only because it is the proper second gen platform to go with second gen Ryzen, but also because it doesn't have that ugly red color scheme. However... there is actually a review of this motherboard on this site,
here. If you look towards the bottom, you find that the reviewer points out that bifurcation actually doesn't work that well, atleast with the cards he tested. That came across to me as a major disappointment and so I thought I'd ask here, since this case utilizes this bifurcation feature, is this true? Does the board really have broken PCIe bifurcation, and there will be no updates to the BIOS to fix it? Has anyone else tested this or have any knowledge on it? Keep in mind, just like last generation X370 that did support it well, it is said to be supported on the motherboards product page.
