Budget Motherboard (AM4, Micro)

[vK 3 1 RON]

Hi guys, I'm after a really budget orientated motherboard, right now I'm looking at https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/mJGxFT/asus-prime-b450m-a-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-prime-b450m-a , any opinions on it? Every £ does count for this build.

 

Thank you for your time,

vK

[LukeSavenije]

can you miss 5 for this one?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/kRTzK8/msi-b450m-pro-vdh-max-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-b450m-pro-vdh-max

[vK 3 1 RON]

3 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

can you miss 5 for this one?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/kRTzK8/msi-b450m-pro-vdh-max-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-b450m-pro-vdh-max

It's not for me this build, but, I'll consider asking the person about this. It should be fine, but just because I'm curious -- what are the differences between these two boards? 

[LukeSavenije]

Just now, vK 3 1 RON said:

It's not for me this build, but, I'll consider asking the person about this. It should be fine, but just because I'm curious -- what are the differences between these two boards? 

the power delivery is a bit better, and max series has bigger bios chips, with guaranteed 3000 series support

 

i'd say totally worth 5 bucks more

[Juular]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

the power delivery is a bit better,

It's still terrible tho so it worth mentioning that both these motherboards are good for nothing more than 6-core CPU.

[vK 3 1 RON]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

 with guaranteed 3000 series support

Just to clarify, does that mean that despite it being a B450 board an'all, it will support a 3400g out of the box? 

[vK 3 1 RON]

Just now, Juular said:

It's still terrible tho so it worth mentioning that both these motherboards are good for nothing more than 6-core CPU.

A 6 physical core CPU isn't going to be a problem in this build, it's for very entry and casual gaming

[Juular]

1 minute ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

Just to clarify, does that mean that despite it being a B450 board an'all, it will support a 3400g out of the box? 

Correct. You'll still need to update UEFI to latest one but it will boot with Zen 2 CPU (or rather 3xxx series since 3xxx APUs are still Zen+) at least.

[vK 3 1 RON]

Just now, Juular said:

Correct. You'll still need to update UEFI to latest one but it will boot with Zen 2 CPU at least.

Ah I see, yeah that does seem like a little bit of a weight lift compared to going through the ordeal of AMD test CPUs haha

[LukeSavenije]

Just now, Juular said:

It's still terrible tho so it worth mentioning that both these motherboards are good for nothing more than 6-core CPU.

it's actually not too bad, sharing a similar vrm to most of the msi lineup, just with a worse heatsink... so 8 cores would technically work just fine on it

[Juular]

3 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

it's actually not too bad, sharing a similar vrm to most of the msi lineup, just with a worse heatsink... so 8 cores would technically work just fine on it

No, it shares VRM config only with -Pro-M2 which is no better, Mortar has the same controller and MOSFETS apparently but more phases. It's still okay for stock 8-cores with the airflow but not as good as a bit more expensive ASRock Pro 4.

[LukeSavenije]

Just now, Juular said:

No, it shares VRM config only with -Pro-M2 which is no better, Mortar has the same controller and MOSFETS apparently but more phases.

yeah... i can't find exact info for a minute... i might need to ask jurrunio about that soon...