I was kind of whatching how this would turn out
I was wondering how the above "expert" advice would turn out when someone is saying an Intel CPU isn't good enough, but refers to NVIDIA (A graphics processor) as a Mother board component.
I guess that would explain why Rizen performs better. People are using a GPU rather than a CPU
Graphics cards usually use PCI express as their interface (which was invented by Intel BTW . ) that standard is pretty universal. You can run into issues with the slot size. You want x16 and then you are golden. PCIE is downward compatible. So if you get a GEN4 PCIE card but you have a GEN2 motherboard you will be operating in Gen2 mode (is 1/4 of the speed) and you just wasted a ton of money. That would be the main reason to be aware of the motherboard capability
sorry Rob, you just had to be called there
Pat