B-450 Motherboard

[smitty716]

I am currently shopping for a good B-450 Motherboard that I know will be flashable for thenew Ryzen chips. But as I look and read reviews they all have mostly bad reviews about Ram not working right or this or that. I think they just don't know how to clock the Ram . What Motherboard do you guys recommend ? would like to spend $150 or less USD.

[Airdragonz]

The Asus b450 strix and MSI b450 gaming pro carbon are both some of the best b450 motherboards out there in terms of reliability and features.

[Jurrunio]

21 minutes ago, smitty716 said:

will be flashable for thenew Ryzen chips.

That alone means MSI only...

 

But keep in mind that the rest of the MSI B450 ATX boards are just the Carbon AC with parts omitted, the lower the price the more gets cut off. Check those out if you dont need every feature.

[smitty716]

I have noticed some 470 chip set boards in my price range. I'll be getting the Ryzen 3000 , wha board would be best suited ? I do plan on dabbling in ocing later.

[James300]

6 hours ago, smitty716 said:

I have noticed some 470 chip set boards in my price range. I'll be getting the Ryzen 3000 , wha board would be best suited ? I do plan on dabbling in ocing later.

I'm in a similar situation to you, and am looking at an MSI B450 tomahawk. 

 

I'm struggling to find anything with good quality VRM's on an X470 board within a 50% price increase (UK). That's money that can make up the difference between a 3600X and 3700X or go towards a GPU upgrade 

[smitty716]

8 hours ago, James300 said:

I'm in a similar situation to you, and am looking at an MSI B450 tomahawk. 

 

I'm struggling to find anything with good quality VRM's on an X470 board within a 50% price increase (UK). That's money that can make up the difference between a 3600X and 3700X or go towards a GPU upgrade 

James after talking to a lot of folks I'm waiting till after the 7th of July to buy any parts.

[Gohardgrandpa]

11 hours ago, James300 said:

I'm in a similar situation to you, and am looking at an MSI B450 tomahawk. 

 

I'm struggling to find anything with good quality VRM's on an X470 board within a 50% price increase (UK). That's money that can make up the difference between a 3600X and 3700X or go towards a GPU upgrade 

I was running a b350 tomahawk before the wife got me a b450 tomahawk for Christmas and it's been solid. I got my 2666 ram to 3000mhz easily and my 1800x runs 4ghz all core at 1.345 volts all day stable. 

I highly recommend this motherboard. It only has one m.2 slot so keep that in mind if you need more then one. I'm waiting on July 7th to get my 3700x  to drop in there 

[James300]

15 hours ago, Gohardgrandpa said:

I was running a b350 tomahawk before the wife got me a b450 tomahawk for Christmas and it's been solid. I got my 2666 ram to 3000mhz easily and my 1800x runs 4ghz all core at 1.345 volts all day stable. 

I highly recommend this motherboard. It only has one m.2 slot so keep that in mind if you need more then one. I'm waiting on July 7th to get my 3700x  to drop in there 

Thanks for the endorsement, and the heads up on the m.2 slot. I've got an NVME drive, so will likely pair it with a 500GB SSD and 2TB HDD for storage

 

I've got some 3200Mhz RAM, just need to pick between the 3600X and 3700X, and between the 5700XT and 2070

 

Edit: Just managed to pick up a B450 Tomahawk thanks to a 20% off ebay code (New from a reputable store). Just the expensive bits left!