Motherboard VRM Tier List v2 (currently AMD only)

[Haro]

49 minutes ago, Oat said:

as it's quite a step up from its basic predecessor.

Same subpart overpriced board with basically the same VRM (Just added more of the same High Side MOSFETs) and only added a BIOS flashback button.

So tier E/D. 

[Jurrunio]

5 hours ago, Oat said:

Wondering where you'd put the B450-F Strix II at, as it's quite a step up from its basic predecessor.

It's a B450-E with BIOS flashback button, so tier D. It's not a big step uo by any means.

[Sparke]

1st, dont read my previous post i was on a tangent, was conviced its best to get a 3600 and reasonable B450 board now and invest later to replace the dinky (best you dont ask) ram i have now, so I have 3 options, (budget contraints) so i can get a steel legend (SL) m or full and mortar max (MM), anything listed in tier J or above my budget, including mortar max (which has worse io than the other, addicted to usb ports) unfortunately. 

 

I know MM is better than SL, if and when i go find a used far superior CPU later on. I have seen comments mention about gigabytes shrouds keeping the heat up, would removing the shroud on the SL allow it to creep into a higher tier or are the VRMs really that much lower on the SL than the MM.

 

Reasons I am concidering the SL, I have a P400 DRGB white with 8 fans

 

1. Its White (ish)

2. It can control my drgb, though using a arduino at the moment

3. I should have sufficient air flowing through the case (2 fans are jerry rigged to the PSU grate/shroud for GPU help)

4. I intend on getting a tower cooler over the AIO, unless a 280 AIO is a much better investment than the PH-TC12DX, cant fit PH-TC14PE, i mention as it will affect air over the VRM

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Sparke said:

would removing the shroud on the SL allow it to creep into a higher tier or are the VRMs really that much lower on the SL than the MM.

it's less efficient mosfets on worse heatsinks even after taking the shroud off. Unless you use a downdraft with the SL, don't increase power budget to anything with more than 6 cores.

[Sparke]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

it's less efficient mosfets on worse heatsinks even after taking the shroud off. Unless you use a downdraft with the SL, don't increase power budget to anything with more than 6 cores.

Awesome thanks for the response

[iSimple]

If i can get Asus ROG B550-F same/similar price as MSI B550 A-Pro. Which one would you advise to get?

[Haro]

5 minutes ago, iSimple said:

Which one would you advise to get?

The Strix-F is techincally better out of these two. 

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, iSimple said:

If i can get Asus ROG B550-F same/similar price as MSI B550 A-Pro. Which one would you advise to get?

MSI one. Asus one uses the problematic Intel 2.5G LAN which even if it's fixed, is still a risk and won't benefit you without network bandwidth that goes beyond 1Gb. However in this case either the A Pro is very expensive or the B550-F is really cheap, without knowing the actual price I wouldnt say the MSI board is my go-to board.

[celloh]

Is B450M-A Pro Max Tier F or Tier C?

 

 

Also how bad it is to pair it with a 3600? Because that's what I did lol

[Haro]

20 minutes ago, celloh said:

Is B450M-A Pro Max Tier F or Tier C?

The ATX B450-A Pro Max is Tier C. 

The mATX B450M-A Pro Max is Tier F since the mATX version is much worse than the ATX one. 

21 minutes ago, celloh said:

Also how bad it is to pair it with a 3600? Because that's what I did lol

The 3600 is not a problem on that board. 

[Legendary Queen]

Hi hows gigabyte b550m ds3h for Ryzen 5 3600X

[Jurrunio]

6 minutes ago, Legendary King said:

Hi hows gigabyte b550m ds3h for Ryzen 5 3600X

It's okay but the rule that B550 boards are in general better than B450 boards do not apply to this one. It's only on par with them.

[Legendary Queen]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

It's okay but the rule that B550 boards are in general better than B450 boards do not apply to this one. It's only on par with them.

Right now its kinda cheaper then even some basic b450 boards so i was wondering what flaws it has to make it so cheap

[Legendary Queen]

14 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

It's okay but the rule that B550 boards are in general better than B450 boards do not apply to this one. It's only on par with them.

Will i be able to find a b450 MB cheaper then that? Thats better i mean

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Legendary King said:

Will i be able to find a b450 MB cheaper then that? Thats better i mean

I dont know where you're looking at so I cant tell. It's widely known which boards are better however which means it is unlikely.

[Nena Trinity]

Where go this?

Gigabyte A520M S2H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (A520M S2H) - PCPartPicker

 

Ryzen 9 3950X VS a low end A520 VRM feat. Gigabyte A520M H - YouTube

 

[Jurrunio]

2 hours ago, Nena Trinity said:

Where go this?

Gigabyte A520M S2H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (A520M S2H) - PCPartPicker

 

Ryzen 9 3950X VS a low end A520 VRM feat. Gigabyte A520M H - YouTube

 

Worst tier. There's no heatsink at all on this thing and it runs mosfets.

[Nena Trinity]

52 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Worst tier. There's no heatsink at all on this thing and it runs mosfets.

So max CPU to slap in there?  (it seems to have a power limiter of 130w max)

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Nena Trinity said:

So max CPU to slap in there?  (it seems to have a power limiter of 130w max)

65w CPUs at stock

[Nena Trinity]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

65w CPUs at stock

Something like this?

 

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Nena Trinity said:

Something like this?

 

This looks ok other than the 1050ti. $228 for that feels like getting your breakfast money stolen so you have to eat leftovers from someone else.

[TacticianDaru]

First of all, thank you for putting this list together! It's been great help.
I'm going for a Ryzen 5 5600X with its Wraith Cooler. I don't want water cooling nor to overclock. I want to be able to upgrade the system for years down the road.

Considering this, I think a B550 chipset might be the best way to go, but there are many options, and frankly I don't understand what does the "XXXA " at the beginning of the tiers mean. Is it A for Amperage? Why is the bigger number better? Sorry if this is a silly question.

 

I don't want to get something I'll never fully use, nor something that'll be bottlenecked right off the bat and I'll need to swap the first time I want to upgrade a component.

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, TacticianDaru said:

Is it A for Amperage? Why is the bigger number better? Sorry if this is a silly question.

Yes. Higher number = more power can go through before it overheats, basically.

[sinni800]

I'm currently trying to decide between the

 

Pro WS X570-ACE

ROG Strix X570-E

 

I have a 5950X processor and would like to switch from a B550 to an X570 for multiple reasons.

 

First, the B550 I currently have doesnt share the CPU lanes between the two x16 PCIe. It actually has the second x16 on the chipset. If any other x1 on the chipset is used, all four (including the x16!) chipset attached pcie go down to x1 each. Horrible. My earlier B350-F gaming I had with my 2700x actually did a x8/x8 config.

 

Second, since I use multiple peripheral PCIe devices, I do want to have the PCIe 4.0 bandwidth to the chipset here, since everything shares the x4 to the processor here.

 

Either one of these two mainboards have the things I want, though the WS is more appealing to me in general (gamery look isnt something I prefer).

 

Is there any good argument that would put the Strix above the WS?

[TacticianDaru]

46 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Yes. Higher number = more power can go through before it overheats, basically.

Thank you for the reply!

Considering I've no intention to overclocking or get liquid cooling, what tier would you recommend to look at? I'm guessing the S tiered ones are for crazy heavy workloads or tons of components?