X570 Vs B450

[JuicyFrames]

I am building my first system and I am looking to get the Ryzen 3700X but idk if i should get the B450 or X570 series mobos and if which one.

P.S. I am not going to do any heavy overclocking

[boggy77]

x570 has sli support and pcie 4. if you don't need any of these features, get a good b450 board and save some money

[JuicyFrames]

8 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

x570 has sli support and pcie 4. if you don't need any of these features, get a good b450 board and save some money

thx very helpful

 

[WaggishOhio383]

Another thing to note. If you go with a B450 board, you will need to go with either the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max, or the AsRock B450 Steel Legend. Other older B450 models do not come compatible with third gen Ryzen CPUs out of the box, and you would have to do a BIOS update to add support, which requires having an older second gen CPU inserted.

 

Both the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max and the Asrock B450 Steel Legend will still be cheaper than any X570 board you can get so I would recommend getting one of those two anyway.

[JuicyFrames]

Just now, WaggishOhio383 said:

Another thing to note. If you go with a B450 board, you will need to go with either the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max, or the AsRock B450 Steel Legend. Other older B450 models do not come compatible with third gen Ryzen CPUs out of the box, and you would have to do a BIOS update to add support, which requires having an older second gen CPU inserted.

ye thx i read a lot of reviews and i chose the tomahawk max as every1 recommneds it. If u wanna see the build i want and see where I could improve u could check my other post out.

[William M]

One the reason to consider  X570 board is if you want overclock. Then generally have better Voltage management. and better cooler voltage management. X570 has gen 4 pci-e lanes. At the moment you would only get benefit of  from nmve ssd. Next gen GPU will most likely be Gen 4. Although doubt that gpu would really be able to use that bandwidth. 

I have machine built on b450 chipset and couple on x570. The system on x570 runs at higher pbo clockspeed. That may have nothing to do with the motherboard. Both systems run x3700, One cpu may be better then the other. Although the 3700x in b450 motherboard is actually the newer cpu. Though system on x570 is Cooler Master COSMOS II 25th Anniversary Edition XL-ATX and has 240mm watercoller . That is large case. The system in with b450 motherboard is large mid tower case run hyper 212 evo for cpu cooler . At the end of day if this built for gaming ,get motherboard b450 chipset. Then put that money into better gpu.