Which B450 motherboard?

[Frizzer107]

So, I've been planning on building my very first PC this Christmas. I already know I want to use a Ryzen 5 2600 and an RX 570 8Gb (leaning towards an MSI Armor). 

I have a good plan about what I want to use it for and what most of the components should be, but I'm really struggling with the motherboard. I decided a basic B450 would be enough for 1080p gaming with an RX 570, but beyond that, I'm basically clueless, I really don't want to cheap out on it in the wrong way and handicap the whole system by doing so. It shouldn't cost more than 110€ and shouldn't have striking colours or something (basic black/grey is best). An M.2 slot and RGB would be nice but really aren't criteria.

Thanks in advance for any advice! 

[Krosis]

5 minutes ago, Frizzer107 said:

So, I've been planning on building my very first PC this Christmas. I already know I want to use a Ryzen 5 2600 and an RX 570 8Gb (leaning towards an MSI Armor). 

I have a good plan about what I want to use it for and what most of the components should be, but I'm really struggling with the motherboard. I decided a basic B450 would be enough for 1080p gaming with an RX 570, but beyond that, I'm basically clueless, I really don't want to cheap out on it in the wrong way and handicap the whole system by doing so. It shouldn't cost more than 110€ and shouldn't have striking colours or something (basic black/grey is best). An M.2 slot and RGB would be nice but really aren't criteria.

Thanks in advance for any advice! 

The MSI B450 Tomahawk or Asrock Pro4 are the only ones you should look at (or their mATX versions), unless you can afford MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon.

 

 

[Frizzer107]

Ok thank you very much!

Just out of curiosity, why exactly these boards?

[Jurrunio]

RX 570 4GB and 8GB do pretty much the same things just as well tbh, the extra VRAM doesnt allow higher settings since the GPU isnt fast enough to make that extra memory show major differences.

 

Any overclocking?

[Frizzer107]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

RX 570 4GB and 8GB do pretty much the same things just as well tbh, the extra VRAM doesnt allow higher settings since the GPU isnt fast enough to make that extra memory show major differences.

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I didn't know that, definitely going to choose a 4Gb one instead

 

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

 

Any overclocking?

 

Maybe a bit here and there, basically what the standard AMD cooler can handle

[Jurrunio]

15 minutes ago, Frizzer107 said:

Maybe a bit here and there, basically what the standard AMD cooler can handle

Then MSI B450 boards (except Pro M2 and Pro-VDH) ranks first, then the Asrock Pro4, K4, Master SLI and Asus B450-F, B450-E, TUF B450-Pro come behind. Gigabyte's budget options are just bad.

[Frizzer107]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Then MSI B450 boards (except Pro M2 and Pro-VDH) ranks first, then the Asrock Pro4, K4, Master SLI and Asus B450-F, B450-E, TUF B450-Pro come behind. Gigabyte's budget options are just bad.

Thanks a lot!