Motherboard

[Amenbas]

Hello guys,

 

what would you suggest between Asrock B360 Gaming K4 and Aorus B360 Gaming 3, those motherboard had nearly same price, same specification, but i read about powerphase, the asrock give 10+2, otherwise aorus only give 4+3, so any recommend about two of them for me to choose im using core i5 9400f?,

 

Thank you, sorry bout my rusty english, im not form english base country, but try to learn it

[Firewrath9]

I'd take the whichever one you think looks better, although I prefer the GB due to more M.2 and better BIOS imo

[Windows7ge]

The specifics in power phase only really become important if you plan to do any high overclocking. If you don't either should perform it's job fine.

[Daniel Z.]

For the 9400F either would be adequate, so get the one with more features that you like, whether that’s PCIe slots, USB ports, or whatever else. If you haven’t gotten the CPU yet, I would wait for Ryzen 3000 and even if you still want the 9400F, prices should lower a bit.

[Jurrunio]

K4 is a big 5 (because 2 inductors per phase) while G3 is a normal sized 4 so K4 is indeed better. I will even say that I'd try an 8700 or even 9900k at stock on the K4, but not the G3.

[Spotty]

20 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

I'd take the whichever one you think looks better, although I prefer the GB due to more M.2 and better BIOS imo

Unless I'm missing something they both have the same number of M.2 slots?
 

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With on both boards slot 1 & 3 supporting PCIe/SATA storage* with slot 2 supporting m.2 wifi cards.
*1x m.2 supports PCIe 3.0 x4 from CPU with the other M.2 slot provided by the chipset.

 

You don't really need to worry too much about power stages with an i5 9400F. Either board would be fine in that regard.
I would look at the rear I/O and see which board has the I/O you need. Also check the internal connectors, RGB headers, Fan headers. etc.

[pizapower]

B360 is a waste of money. Get a Z390 and then in the future you can get a better unlocked CPU and overclock it.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

4 minutes ago, pizapower said:

Get a Z390 and then in the future you can get a better unlocked CPU and overclock it.

Dont ever bother to upgrade cpu with a good board! Much more expensive overall!

you see used market on intel high end chips are always expensive. not worth upgrading over buying newer gens

[Amenbas]

4 hours ago, Firewrath9 said:

I'd take the whichever one you think looks better, although I prefer the GB due to more M.2 and better BIOS imo

 

3 hours ago, Spotty said:

Unless I'm missing something they both have the same number of M.2 slots?
 

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With on both boards slot 1 & 3 supporting PCIe/SATA storage* with slot 2 supporting m.2 wifi cards.
*1x m.2 supports PCIe 3.0 x4 from CPU with the other M.2 slot provided by the chipset.

 

You don't really need to worry too much about power stages with an i5 9400F. Either board would be fine in that regard.
I would look at the rear I/O and see which board has the I/O you need. Also check the internal connectors, RGB headers, Fan headers. etc.

 

they both had same 2 M.2 slot and 1 WiFi slot, okay thank you for ur opinion, i'll take in mind, in my research, more powerphase mean more efficiency, its that right ?, the other all same, only the aorus had usb 3.1 i/o

thanks

[Amenbas]

4 hours ago, Daniel Z. said:

For the 9400F either would be adequate, so get the one with more features that you like, whether that’s PCIe slots, USB ports, or whatever else. If you haven’t gotten the CPU yet, I would wait for Ryzen 3000 and even if you still want the 9400F, prices should lower a bit.

but in my country, AMD ryzen 5 2600 are more expensive rather than Intel i5 95400f, also the motherboard are expensive too