motherboard upgrade help?

[TjayXazyn]

Hi guys/girls,

I currently have a ryzen 5 2600(1st gen) and a MSI GTX1060 6gb with 16gb of ram and the motherboard at the minute is a MSI A320M PRO-VD/S. I'm just wonering what other choice i have? 
products with links would be so helpful!
Thankyou in advance 

[LukeSavenije]

a320 is horrible

 

cheap vrms

 

barely any cooling for it

 

barely (if any) support for zen 2

 

I'd highly recommend something better

[BigRom]

What country and budget

[TjayXazyn]

any suggestion on an upgrade? preferable something in the micro ATX range and im in the UK and between £150/£200

[LukeSavenije]

2 minutes ago, TjayXazyn said:

any suggestion on an upgrade? preferable something in the micro ATX range and im in the UK and between £150/£200

200 for everything, or just the mobo?

[TjayXazyn]

just the motherboard, im pretty happy how it preforms with the set up now, just want to change the motherboard 

[LukeSavenije]

Just now, TjayXazyn said:

just the motherboard, im pretty happy how it preforms with the set up now, just want to change the motherboard 

well... for that money you can get my current favourite am4 board, the taichi

 

but even a b450/ab350/x370 pro4 would be a huge improvement

[TjayXazyn]

luke any website links or could they be found on pc part picker or newegg

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, TjayXazyn said:

luke any website links or could they be found on pc part picker or newegg

Are you restricted to mATX boards ? What case do you have ?

[TjayXazyn]

lee32uk i have a Thermaltake Versa H18 Micro Case

[LukeSavenije]

7 minutes ago, TjayXazyn said:

lee32uk i have a Thermaltake Versa H18 Micro Case

i mean... if you really like the case you could get something like a mortar (not b350), bazooka (not b350), pro4(-f) (not a320), gaming plus, aorus m,  or steel legend

[The_nobody]

59 minutes ago, TjayXazyn said:

just the motherboard, im pretty happy how it preforms with the set up now, just want to change the motherboard 

you just need to get something with a better chipset you culd try and warch this vidio

 

[LukeSavenije]

3 minutes ago, The_nobody said:

you just need to get something with a better chipset you culd try and warch this vidio

ever heard about things like lets say... vrms?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, The_nobody said:

you just need to get something with a better chipset

The chipset doesn't determine the quality of the board though. There are bad boards on any of the AM4 chipsets.

[Guest]

34 minutes ago, TjayXazyn said:

lee32uk i have a Thermaltake Versa H18 Micro Case

Any of the ones mentioned by Luke would do fine for a 2600. Other option would be to go ATX but that would mean a new case as well.

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

Any of the ones mentioned by Luke would do fine for a 2600. Other option would be to go ATX but that would mean a new case as well.

yep, i'd even trust a 2700x with all of them, so a 2600 should do easily

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

yep, i'd even trust a 2700x with all of them, so a 2600 should do easily

Yeah they are all fine for the 2600. Only reason I mentioned ATX was if he wanted something higher end such as an X470 Gaming Pro Carbon or Taichi etc.

[TjayXazyn]

is this one any good ASRock B450M Steel Legend AM4 AMD Promontory B450 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

 

 https://www.newegg.com/global/uk-en/p/N82E16813157868

[LukeSavenije]

2 minutes ago, TjayXazyn said:

is this one any good ASRock B450M Steel Legend AM4 AMD Promontory B450 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

 

 https://www.newegg.com/global/uk-en/p/N82E16813157868

yeah, it's pretty decent

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, TjayXazyn said:

is this one any good ASRock B450M Steel Legend AM4 AMD Promontory B450 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

 

 https://www.newegg.com/global/uk-en/p/N82E16813157868

I would avoid Newegg though as you are in the UK. Just stick to Amazon or other UK retailers.