X570 recommendations

[akb8812]

So I currently have the 2700x on the X370 Crosshair VI Hero. I feel it's time to upgrade to the latest platform soon once it has matured nicely and most kinks worked out.

But, I'm actually having some issues selecting my new platform, so many options. What's the best option in the same class as the Crosshair VI? So good for overclocking with excellent power phases and a quiet chipset fan.
Now, the Crosshair VIII is stupid expensive so I guess that board is now a higher class than the previous once. So basically what's the BEST high end but not stupid expensive X570 board?

 

My current specs:

C6H x370

2700x

ASUS Strix 1080Ti

2x8GB 3200Mhz G.Skill FlareX

[Jurrunio]

depends on what feature do you want from such board

 

or even waiting for B550 before considering the next CPU. Rumors suggest it will be fanless but PCIe 4 only on slots connected directly to the CPU. Anything linked to the chipset will be PCIe 3 instead.

[LukeSavenije]

well, the v6h is good enough for current chip overclocking

 

the "cheaper" oc boards I'd say are the aorus elite and tuf

 

the next step would be the c8h, meg ace, aorus master and phantom gaming x

 

it's a minimal upgrade though

[akb8812]

5 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

well, the v6h is good enough for current chip overclocking

 

the "cheaper" oc boards I'd say are the aorus elite and tuf

 

the next step would be the c8h, meg ace, aorus master and phantom gaming x

 

it's a minimal upgrade though

I figured it's a minimal upgrade but I still think it's time for a new platform with the new chip.

Any idea which one of the ones you mentioned have the quietest chipset fan?

[akb8812]

18 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

depends on what feature do you want from such board

 

or even waiting for B550 before considering the next CPU. Rumors suggest it will be fanless but PCIe 4 only on slots connected directly to the CPU. Anything linked to the chipset will be PCIe 3 instead.

Feartures I want: good power delivery, decent overclocking capabilities, plenty of fan headers.

[GrockleTD]

Personally, X570 taichi (Yes, I regret my Crosshairs VIII purchase)

[LukeSavenije]

18 minutes ago, akb8812 said:

Any idea which one of the ones you mentioned have the quietest chipset fan?

i haven't really seen much about that... I'm a vrm guy

 

5 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

Personally, X570 taichi

taichi had some major issues with the chipset fan spinning up

[GrockleTD]

Just now, LukeSavenije said:

i haven't really seen much about that... I'm a vrm guy

 

taichi had some major issues with the chipset fan spinning up

I had not heard of this, I was going off the things I had heard of otherwise the Taichung being the most painless

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, akb8812 said:

Feartures I want: good power delivery, decent overclocking capabilities, plenty of fan headers.

B550 can do all that (the more premium ones anyway), wait for those.

 

Just put a Zen 2 CPU inside the Crosshair VI for now.

[bimmerman]

I would wait a couple months until BIOS / Boost issues are sorted out before buying in to X570.

 

As of now, Gigabyte and ASRock have the best Bios update track record.

 

Asus is slow on Bios but have high-clocking chips (as a result of aggressively high voltages, see Jayz' video).

 

MSI seems slower on Bios.

 

Personally, I went with X570 for futureproofing. Until now I had an X58 system that was beginning to show its age from motherboard chipset bandwidth and PCIe 2.0 more than anything, so since X570 is PCIE 4.0 on everything, I wanted that since this system will be my main for the next few years.

[Triboal]

1 hour ago, GrockleTD said:

Personally, X570 taichi (Yes, I regret my Crosshairs VIII purchase)

Out of curiosity, can I ask why you are regretting your C8H purchase?

 

And the X570 Taichi has been criticised for the chipset fan going wild as well as being located directly under where the GPU would be placed (in the top x16 PCIe slot). The USB type-C internal connector is also located under where the GPU would be placed making it difficult to access should your case accommodate a type-C connection. Not sure how Asrock let that last one through which is a shame because other than those issues the board is really solid and good looking.

 

For the OP: Like @Jurrunio said, wait for B550. You also have a C6H which is by no means a bad board, power delivery-wise. I would either wait for a good B550 board or shoot for a high end X570 board if you want to see noticeable improvements in performance, if any. 

[akb8812]

1 hour ago, GeLi said:

Out of curiosity, can I ask why you are regretting your C8H purchase?

 

And the X570 Taichi has been criticised for the chipset fan going wild as well as being located directly under where the GPU would be placed (in the top x16 PCIe slot). The USB type-C internal connector is also located under where the GPU would be placed making it difficult to access should your case accommodate a type-C connection. Not sure how Asrock let that last one through which is a shame because other than those issues the board is really solid and good looking.

 

For the OP: Like @Jurrunio said, wait for B550. You also have a C6H which is by no means a bad board, power delivery-wise. I would either wait for a good B550 board or shoot for a high end X570 board if you want to see noticeable improvements in performance, if any. 

I Might end up doing that for the time being until everything has worked itself out with the 570 platform.

But my question still remains, what high end board is so far getting the best results. By high end I don't mean ultra high end like the Godlike etc...anything over 500 bucks is a no go.

[GamerDude]

6 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

Personally, X570 taichi (Yes, I regret my Crosshairs VIII purchase)

May I be a busybody and ask why?

 

The X570 C8F was one of the boards I was looking at (unless you're referring to the Hero), the MSI X570 Godlike is ridiculously priced in my neck of the woods, so it wasn't a consideration. The board I'd also considered and eventually chose was the GB X570 Aorus Xtreme......the absence of a chipset cooler was the winner for me. Though I can't complain about active chipset cooler, my Asus X79 Rampage IV Extreme has an active fan cooler and it has never bothered me, nor has it failed.......yet.

[GrockleTD]

6 hours ago, GeLi said:

Out of curiosity, can I ask why you are regretting your C8H purchase?

 

And the X570 Taichi has been criticised for the chipset fan going wild as well as being located directly under where the GPU would be placed (in the top x16 PCIe slot). The USB type-C internal connector is also located under where the GPU would be placed making it difficult to access should your case accommodate a type-C connection. Not sure how Asrock let that last one through which is a shame because other than those issues the board is really solid and good looking.

 

For the OP: Like @Jurrunio said, wait for B550. You also have a C6H which is by no means a bad board, power delivery-wise. I would either wait for a good B550 board or shoot for a high end X570 board if you want to see noticeable improvements in performance, if any. 

Well, was DOA, on top of I haven’t even been able to use it yet for other reasons, which is disappointing when you spend about 360 dollars on something 

[Ravendarat]

Im currently running a MEG ACE x570 and have been happy with everything so far. I had an issue updating the BIOS but I finally got it done today, I think the previous failures had to have been something I was doing wrong (wrong format on the USB stick maybe). I really like the BIOS on it and the board having 3 m.2 was a big seller for me as I wanted all m.2 storage and wanted to be able to do my OS on one and then redundant RAID on the other two.

[Triboal]

8 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

Well, was DOA, on top of I haven’t even been able to use it yet for other reasons, which is disappointing when you spend about 360 dollars on something 

Ah fairs, that's a shame then. I thought the C8H was a very pretty board and debated getting it for a while but didn't feel it was worth the premium over the MEG ACE. I also thought about the Aorus Master but didn't like the aesthetics. Are you going to swap the board for something else?

[Mathieu9836]

I would wait for B550 and improved stability before ''upgrading'' hardware, you already have a very good build, old but good.

[GrockleTD]

1 hour ago, GeLi said:

Ah fairs, that's a shame then. I thought the C8H was a very pretty board and debated getting it for a while but didn't feel it was worth the premium over the MEG ACE. I also thought about the Aorus Master but didn't like the aesthetics. Are you going to swap the board for something else?

Nah, I have a replacement, just been waiting like 2 weeks for bloody thermal paste to ship

[Triboal]

5 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

Nah, I have a replacement, just been waiting like 2 weeks for bloody thermal paste to ship

Ah wow, that's long haha. Good luck with your build anyway!

[akb8812]

So I will probably end up getting the 3900x soon. Might not end up overclocking since the OC on my current 2700x didn't really yield any significant improvement.

But I do want eventually to upgrade to the new platform and I have no interest in the B skus.

[akb8812]

So to bump this thread a bit......very soon I'll be pulling the trigger on the CPU and then eventually getting the new motherboard too. But I'm STILL very undecided about which one to get.

I did notice that I had been looking at the Formula and not the Hero, thinking it was stupid expensive so the Hero is back on the table as a candidate! I'm not looking for anything lower than X570 and I'm looking for in the 300-400 USD range as my limit. I've had very good experiences with my C6H until recently it's been weird when booting, comes with an error causing me to need to turn off the PSU at the back and then back on again for a normal boot. No OC currently so it's not that.

I'm leaning towards the Hero cause of that but if there are better offerings out there for the same price then I really want to look at that.