Asus PRIME X570 PRO vs Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO

[zooper72]

ASUS PRIME X570-PRO vs Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO

I will buy the first motherboard who reaches 10 votes!

Thanks in advance for your time!

Vote which mobo is better for you

1.ASUS PRIME X570 PRO

2.Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO

[Applefreak]

Gigabyte, because it has more USB ports in the back, to me that's important. I hate giving up IO for some stupid dongles. Also the black looks much cleaner than then the white. Both are good motherboards, I guess it domes down to the subtle difference in features.

[mariushm]

Gigabyte here as well...

 

asus :  + ps/2   + 2 video outputs (just one on gigabyte,but you don't buy it for the integrated graphics)  + 2 extra usb 3.0 ports on ioshield

 

gigabyte :  + 4 usb 2.0 ports  + 2 heatsinks for m.2  and overall i like the more restrained design more (less colors), like not seeing color coded analogue outputs (as they're reconfigurable and auto detection enabled anyway), and just two colors for usb ports (red/blue)

 

Asus also has a slightly better pci-e layout as in you could use a pci-e x1 slot if you have two thick video cards installed, while on the gigabyte both pci-e x1 slots would be blocked ... but then again you still have the third x16 slot ... and this scenario is really far fetched... and there's workarounds like using pci-e riser cables if it's really that critical.

 

[zooper72]

Score is

ASUS PRIME X570-PRO 1

Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO 3

 

I really appreciate your vote!

 

Please continue ....10 Votes needed

[GoldenLag]

5 minutes ago, zooper72 said:

Please continue ....10 Votes needed

Auros Pro is more or less the best pick. 

 

 

actuall heatsinks on the VRMs. the VRMs themselves are fairly similar. the Prime being a touch better. 

 

 

id suggest the Auros Pro. 

[-rascal-]

My vote also goes to the Aorus Pro.

The VRM design and cooling is the big one for me...

[MrBrightSyde]

Yeah, the Aorus Pro is the better option.

 

[pstarlord]

I'd go with Aorus...well, I DID go with Aorus for my Zen 2 build. haha.  Been loving it, and since they were kind of the darlings at launch of Zen 2, there are plenty of helpful videos out there that'll help you dial in your setup based on the BIOS of the Aorus motherboard.  Buildzoid did a great one. 

[zooper72]

Score is

ASUS PRIME X570-PRO 1

Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO 7

Please continue ....10 Votes needed

 

Thanks a million for your time in advance

 

[zooper72]

21 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

Auros Pro is more or less the best pick. 

 

 

actuall heatsinks on the VRMs. the VRMs themselves are fairly similar. the Prime being a touch better. 

 

 

id suggest the Auros Pro. 

what do you mean?

[zooper72]

On 3/30/2020 at 11:22 PM, mariushm said:

Gigabyte here as well...

 

asus :  + ps/2   + 2 video outputs (just one on gigabyte,but you don't buy it for the integrated graphics)  + 2 extra usb 3.0 ports on ioshield

 

gigabyte :  + 4 usb 2.0 ports  + 2 heatsinks for m.2  and overall i like the more restrained design more (less colors), like not seeing color coded analogue outputs (as they're reconfigurable and auto detection enabled anyway), and just two colors for usb ports (red/blue)

 

Asus also has a slightly better pci-e layout as in you could use a pci-e x1 slot if you have two thick video cards installed, while on the gigabyte both pci-e x1 slots would be blocked ... but then again you still have the third x16 slot ... and this scenario is really far fetched... and there's workarounds like using pci-e riser cables if it's really that critical.

 

So... why you vote aorus?

[zooper72]

About

Realtek S1220A 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC featuring Crystal Sound 3 vs

ALC1220-VB Enhance 114dB(Rear)/ 110dB(Front) SNR in Microphone with WIMA Audio Capacitors

 

which audio is better?

 

[mariushm]

13 minutes ago, zooper72 said:

So... why you vote aorus?

I listed some of the things a board has while the other doesn't and so on... some of the differences.

It's up to you to determine if those extra features or missing features are a big deal, give each feature a number of points and determine if you absolutely need some feature or not.

 

For example:

 

ps/2 connector . Asus has it, Gigabyte doesn't.  Some people that are into super heavy gaming, competitions and so on, swear that ps/2 keyboards are better so they need this connector. I personally don't care and have used usb keyboards for years just fine.

 

video connectors on the io shield.  Asus has 2 , Gigabyte has 1....  It would be NICE to have two connectors, but if I think about it, it's really unlikely I'd buy some expensive motherboard and combine it with a processor with integrated graphics. So, having just one video output is not a big deal, it's nice that it's there just in case I want to test the motherboard with a cpu that has integrated graphics, but besides that it will most likely be 2 unused connectors wasting space.

 

Now the Asus has 2 extra usb 3.0 ports which is nice, but they both have plenty of usb 3.0 5gbps and 10gbps on the back. 2 more doesn't really make much of a difference. 

The Gigabyte board does have 4 usb 2.0 connectors, which can be used for low speed devices like keyboard, mouse, usb printer, scanners leaving the usb 3.0 connectors available for stuff like capture cards, external storage, usb network cards etc

So for me, the Gigabyte is a win here.

 

I dig the minimal colors on the Gigabyte model, to me the lack of color coding on the audio connectors and the use of only two colors for usb ports makes it look more modern , more elegant. I don't like all the colors on the Asus ioshield but in the end this is a matter of taste.

The Gigabyte also has 2 m.2 heatsinks so you could easily hide 2 big ssds under those and keep the looks nice inside a case, while the Asus board only gives you one connector.

It doesn't make a big difference but it's worth mentioning that the Gigabyte board also has those reinforced / shielded ram slots (an extra metal bit around the plastic) which in theory can help dissipate a bit of heat from the ram sticks and otherwise it makes the board look a bit nicer.

 

As for the pci-e thing, like I said... in only one scenario, where you would have two thick video cards and something else in the 3rd pci-e x16 slot and you need to install a 4th device that's a pci-e x1 card, the Asus motherboard would score points here because there's 2 pci-e x1 slots under the 1st pci-e x16 slot, so one slot would not be obstructed.

My thoughts is that it's really a very low percentage of people that would be in this scenario.

If you have two thick video cards you can insert a pci-e x1 card in that 3rd pci-e x16 slot so it's not a big deal.

If you have a 10gbps ethernet card or a hba/raid controller or a capture card in the 2nd or 3rd pci-e x16 slot and you need to plug a pci-e x1 card, you'd be able to do it because other than video cards most are not so thick as to block the other pci-e x1 slots.

Also, majority of users these days don't even buy 2 video cards to block all ports as SLI and Crossfire aren't a thing anymore.

 

So really, the benefit of Asus allowing install of pci-e x1 card if all 3 pci-e x16 slots are populated with thick cards is minimal, so it's not worth tipping the balance to Asus over Gigabyte just for this.

 

27 minutes ago, zooper72 said:

About

Realtek S1220A 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC featuring Crystal Sound 3 vs

ALC1220-VB Enhance 114dB(Rear)/ 110dB(Front) SNR in Microphone with WIMA Audio Capacitors

 

which audio is better?

 

It's more or less the same sound card.  It's pretty much just difference in software licenses (options enabled for the audio chip) and choice of audio amplifier on the motherboard.

I don't know which one would be better, but you'd probably need 200$+ headphones to tell the difference.

 

[mariushm]

48 minutes ago, zooper72 said:

22 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

actuall heatsinks on the VRMs. the VRMs themselves are fairly similar. the Prime being a touch better. 

 

 

id suggest the Auros Pro. 

what do you mean?

Asus board uses 4 phases , each with 3 SiC639 50A power stages, so in total you have 4x3x50A = 600A max current

Gigabyte uses 6 phases, each with 2 IR3599 40A power stages, so in total you have 6x2x40A = 480A max current

 

Considering a 16 core Ryzen that's overclocked is probably not gonna get close to 300-350A of current, the fact that one does 480a max while the other is rated 600a max is pointless, they're both overkill.

In theory, more phases is better for overclocking because it gives a smoother voltage and finer control over the voltage, but in practice Asus has quite a lot of experience and fine tuned that chip they use for years now and it works well for them, so the Gigabyte's 6 phases vs 4 phases for Asus is kind of a draw.

 

The Asus board may be a tiny bit more efficient at low currents, when a processor consumes something like 20-50 watts but we're talking let's say 95% efficiency for Asus compared to 94.5% efficiency for Gigabyte

Translated into heat, that would be like the VRM reaching 75 degrees celsius on Asus, and 77 degrees Celsius on Gigabyte, where the maximum temperature is 90 degrees - both are well below the maximum recommended, and the difference is very low... that's what  "a touch better" means in this context.

 

From a mechanical point of view, the Gigabyte heatsink with those fins and all the ensemble, is better quality, better heatsink than Asus's block of aluminum with some cuts in it ...but they both do the job perfectly fine, keeping that circuit well below the maximum temperatures.

 

 

[zooper72]

Marioushm

Thanks a million for your time mate.

 

I build now my new pc

I have already bought

CPU Ryzen 7 3800X

GPU Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT

I will never use a cpu with integrated graphics...

Thanks for explanation!

 

The problem is about Realtek S1220A 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC featuring Crystal Sound 3

Speaker System

I have already also bought Speaker System Logitech z906

 

Logitech z906 will work fine and with ALC1220-VB Enhance 114dB(Rear)/ 110dB(Front) SNR in Microphone with WIMA Audio Capacitors?

[GoldenLag]

1 hour ago, mariushm said:

Considering a 16 core Ryzen that's overclocked is probably not gonna get close to 300-350A of current, the fact that one does 480a max while the other is rated 600a max is pointless, they're both overkill.

Pretty much.

 

 

But the reason for the Auros pro is that it has an actual heatsink on the VRMs, but also the fact that the Vishy powerstages that asus uses dont exactly have the best efficiency curve iirc. 

 

While the Asus board has slightly better VRM modules, the Auros Pro makes up for it with a heatsink. 

 

Edit: i noticed you explained it later on. Sorry. 

[mariushm]

1 hour ago, zooper72 said:

The problem is about Realtek S1220A 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC featuring Crystal Sound 3

Speaker System

I have already also bought Speaker System Logitech z906

 

Logitech z906 will work fine and with ALC1220-VB Enhance 114dB(Rear)/ 110dB(Front) SNR in Microphone with WIMA Audio Capacitors?

They'll work equally fine.

The stuff about 114dB(Rear) and 110dB Front  is signal-to-noise ratio... it tells you how good the audio amplifier is if you for example plug high quality headphones into those analogue audio jacks.

It just means clearer sound with less background noise or hiss and so on.

 

With those Z906 speakers, you may want to use the optical out on your sound card with a TosLink cable, and leave the analogue inputs for a console (xbox/ps4 etc if those don't have optical / digital coax out) 

Here's an example cable:

Amazon.com: KabelDirekt Optical Digital Audio Cable (10 Feet) Home Theater Fiber Optic Toslink Male to Male Gold Plated Optical Cables Best For Playstation & Xbox - Pro Series

Amazon.com: AmazonBasics CL3 Rated Optical Audio Digital Toslink Cable - 15 Feet: Electronics

 

These are like hdmi/displayport cables for audio ... the sound card takes the digital sound and sends it through the fiber cable and leaves the decoding to the actual speakers.

With regular analogue outputs (those 3 audio jacks for 5.1), the sound card has to take the digital signal, convert it to analogue (and that's where that 114dB snr value comes up), and the amplify it a bit so that it can go through the analogue cables to the speaker system, where that speaker system will amplify it again. So using a digital cable would result in less processing of the sound and in theory it would sound better.

But, it would still be quite nice even with the analogue outputs, modern audio chips are quite good.

[zooper72]

2 hours ago, mariushm said:

They'll work equally fine.

The stuff about 114dB(Rear) and 110dB Front  is signal-to-noise ratio... it tells you how good the audio amplifier is if you for example plug high quality headphones into those analogue audio jacks.

It just means clearer sound with less background noise or hiss and so on.

 

With those Z906 speakers, you may want to use the optical out on your sound card with a TosLink cable, and leave the analogue inputs for a console (xbox/ps4 etc if those don't have optical / digital coax out) 

Here's an example cable:

Amazon.com: KabelDirekt Optical Digital Audio Cable (10 Feet) Home Theater Fiber Optic Toslink Male to Male Gold Plated Optical Cables Best For Playstation & Xbox - Pro Series

Amazon.com: AmazonBasics CL3 Rated Optical Audio Digital Toslink Cable - 15 Feet: Electronics

 

These are like hdmi/displayport cables for audio ... the sound card takes the digital sound and sends it through the fiber cable and leaves the decoding to the actual speakers.

With regular analogue outputs (those 3 audio jacks for 5.1), the sound card has to take the digital signal, convert it to analogue (and that's where that 114dB snr value comes up), and the amplify it a bit so that it can go through the analogue cables to the speaker system, where that speaker system will amplify it again. So using a digital cable would result in less processing of the sound and in theory it would sound better.

But, it would still be quite nice even with the analogue outputs, modern audio chips are quite good.

Understood! Thanks a million for your time and for your patience to explanation mate

Really appreciate! Respect!

[sharkattack]

I like ASUS PRIME X570 PRO

[find_better_name_later]

The Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro gives you the option for using wifi, so I would choose that.

When going to LAN parties, wireless internet is usually useful.

[mariushm]

1 minute ago, you have the corona virus said:

The Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro gives you the option for using wifi, so I would choose that.

When going to LAN parties, wireless internet is usually useful.

You're joking right?

What lan party did you go to where they don't have a 8-16-24-48 port gigabit switch in which to plug your computer?

You can buy used 24+ port gigabit switches on eBay for under 50$ so it's silly to even think wifi for parties.

[zooper72]

 

2 hours ago, you have the corona virus said:

The Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro gives you the option for using wifi, so I would choose that.

When going to LAN parties, wireless internet is usually useful.

The version of Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro who i choose is without wifi

So i don't want wifi in my mobo

What you choose aorus or asus?

You forgot to vote

[zooper72]

ASUS PRIME X570-PRO 2

Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO 7

 

10 votes needed

[zooper72]

2 hours ago, mariushm said:

You're joking right?

What lan party did you go to where they don't have a 8-16-24-48 port gigabit switch in which to plug your computer?

You can buy used 24+ port gigabit switches on eBay for under 50$ so it's silly to even think wifi for parties.

Agree

[find_better_name_later]

26 minutes ago, zooper72 said:

 

The version of Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro who i choose is without wifi

So i don't want wifi in my mobo

What you choose aorus or asus?

You forgot to vote

I would still suggest the Aorus one.