Just upgraded to the AM5 platform so all of this just got pulled out and is ready to go! MOBO is pretty fresh (~year old) and still has the stickers on it! For the price of the CPU, get a CPU + Motherboard + RAM! The 5900x is an absolute workhorse and I was using it to run a triple 1080 simulator. 32Gb of ram was always plenty even with large simulator models loading it up. Throwing in a pretty good cooler that would work in a well ventilated case ( I ran a 240 AIO). Questions? Just ask!