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tomhay
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Looking to pair ryzen 5 2600X with x470 board. What is the diffrence between cheap and expensive one:

- Aorus x470 gaming 5 wifi: 174$

-Msi x470 gaming pro:          136$

-Asrock x470 master sli:      144$

 

Other than the wifi in the aorus, whats the diffrencen and is the x470 an overkill for 1200$ buget. If is then what x370 should i pick

 

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why even X chipset, just Asrock B450 Pro4 boards and MSI B450 boards (except ProM2 and ProVDH) are good enough already. The boards you listed share VRMs with their B450 and even some B350 counterparts but quite a lot more expensive (especially the Gigabyte, that price is atrocious)

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4 minutes ago, tomhay said:

If is then what x370 should i pick

If you don't go with an X470 board, go with a B450, not an X370, especially if you're getting a Zen+ CPU.

 

The difference between the motherboards could be anything - number of PCIe slots, number of M.2 slots (if any), number of SATA slots, other internal and external I/O, VRMs, power phases, etc

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5 hours ago, tomhay said:

Looking to pair ryzen 5 2600X with x470 board. What is the diffrence between cheap and expensive one:

- Aorus x470 gaming 5 wifi: 174$

-Msi x470 gaming pro:          136$

-Asrock x470 master sli:      144$

 

Other than the wifi in the aorus, whats the diffrencen and is the x470 an overkill for 1200$ buget. If is then what x370 should i pick

 

Aorus x470 gaming 5 wifi:

 

This motherboard is adding a set of several specifications better than the other examples just look over without going into details
better LAN than MSI (Intel vs. Realtek)
better audio than MSI and Asrock (ALC1220 vs ALC982)
Dual band wifi and bluethoot5, are not on MSI and Asrock
USB typeC, is not in MSI
Heatsink for DiscoM2, it is not in MSI
Much better aesthetics than Asrock and MSI (Personally, this does not interest me that much, but many people do)
Dual BIOS, is not present in Asrock and MSI (Although it is not the variant that I like most of manual switch)

I think the prices just say what these motherboards show, second best option Asrock, shows better specifications than the MSI.

I also believe that these motherboards are not direct opponents for each brand and the price of each says, compare is unfair, there is less difference between case between the Asrock and the MSI

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