Motherboard for 3700x

Nes8bit · April 16, 2020

Hi,

so what would be a good choice for Amd Ryzen 3700x? I have two scenarios, A) one with SLI capability and B) no-SLI.

I currently have a GTX 1070 as a GPU and I could get another one as a second hand. I did watch YouTube and did check google on what they say about SLI and I understand sometimes SLI gives only minor boost and sometimes a big one, depending on the game.

For A) and SLI I would need X470 or X570 board right and at a reasonable price. How about

Asrock Fatality X470 Gaming K4, those ones are about 160-180€. I guess they are on sale and going away soon.

Asrock X470 Taichi, those are about 220-230€.

X570 boards cost a bit more but I don’t want to pay more than about 300€/330USD. So how about

Asus Prime X570-pro

Asus ROG Strix X570-F

Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro

Did I miss some of the lower end ones with SLI support? It is hard to figure out since vendors sometimes say CrossFire AND SLI but in the specs I find that it only has CrossFire. Also checking every single manufacturer web page is tedious...

B) No-SLI, it looks like the MSI B450 Tomahawk at about 120-130€ seems to be the go to choice but as I understand MSI messed up with their X570 boards.

How about the Gigabyte Aorus Elite X570? Is that a good one at 210-230€.

Mateyyy · April 16, 2020

I really wouldn't bother with SLI nowadays, most recent titles even dropped support for it altogether.

If you'd like to save some money, then go for the B450 Tomahawk Max, but if you want better upgradability for the future and have the money, go for X570. Out of the three you mentioned I'd go for the X570-F, but you could even go for a TUF X570-PLUS which is cheaper and still offers everything that you actually need, the Strix board mostly brings bells and whistles over the TUF.