Build recommendation? X570 Upgrade? Best stable solution

[Bullerwins]

Hi!

 

At the moment have a Gigabyte X570 Elite and a 3900x CPU, 32Gb ram and 2 GPU's, slot 1 a 3080 and slot 2 a rx580. I had TONS of problems with the "stuck in D3 state" and "Unknown PCI header type '127'" when passing the GPUs, specially with the 3080 in the slot 1.

To make them work I had to rollback the Mobo bios all the way back to F3 version which is the first one, missing a ton of CPU optimizations and fixes in general, BAR support, and I guess even vulnerabilities fixes.

Another problem I found is that I need a physical monitor connected to the 3080 in order to work, a HDMI dummy doens't work or I get error 43 (no matter how much I DDU and reinstall drivers). Also with this Bios version the IOMMU groups are way worse, and I need ACS patching set to "both" to have decent separation, even though I'm just passing the GPUs and one usb controller (for mouse, keyboard, webcam etc)

 

Anyways, luckily now is stable, but I'm really bothered that I cannot use a hdmi dummy and that I have to use a really old bios, and the IOMMU groups of the old bios version.

 

I would like to upgrade to a 5900x or a 5950x but I would need a bios upgrade for support I think, so it would break everything. So my questions are:

 

Anyone knows if there is any plan for a BIOS that works? Is this AMD or gigabytes fault? (seems like amd as per spaceinvader's video on the topic as this happens with other vendors)

Would another motherboard fix this? (would hate to have to buy another mobo tbh)

Is ryzen 3000 series not really intended for my use? Should I look into threadripper? Does it have better support?

Should I just ditch my cpu and motherboard and switch to Intel? Is there better support?

 

I'm trying to decide my upgrade path but I'm not sure what to do. Maybe my use case is not the intended one? Should I get a basic M1 MBP for content creation, a bare metal PC for gaming and dual boot to linux for daily use? And just leave my unraid server for backups, nextcloud, jellyfin/plex, vpn server etc?

 

Thanks a lot for the help! I'm a long time lurker and this is my first time creating a topic and really like unraid.