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I'm looking for a budget motherboard right now and was wondering, if I should get the Gigabyte B450 DS3H or the MSI B450M Pro-M.2 Max. The gigabyte one has 4 dim slots while the MSI one only has two and the Gigabyte one has 2 PCI-E 16 while the MSI only has one. Was wondering if anyone know if its a good board or if I should just go with the MSI one.

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Both are equally shit 

Which cpu are you getting ? 

The pro 4 will be a lot better than both of these 

Consider the tomahawk max and the mortar max as well.

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

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2 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Both are equally shit 

Which cpu are you getting ? 

The pro 4 will be a lot better than both of these 

Consider the tomahawk max and the mortar max as well.

5 1600 AF, I'm looking at those boards but don't know if I can stretch my budget that far. 

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1 minute ago, Mateimm said:

I'm looking at those boards but don't know if I can stretch my budget that far.

The pro 4 should cost the same as a ds3h 

Or maybe a little more expensive.

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

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Out of the two, the Gigabyte seems better. However, both of these are dead ends. It doesn't much matter if you don't care about upgrades or top of the line processors/features what board you get honestly. You've already decided budget is everything, so get the cheaper one.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D · Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S Chromax.black · Motherboard: Gigabyte Auros X670 Elite AX · RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 64GB (2 x 32GB) DDR5 6000MHz CL30 · Graphics Card: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super Twin Edge OC 12GB · Boot Drive: 1TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade NVMe SSD · Game Drive: 2TB WD SN850X NVMe SSD · PSU: Seasonic Focus GX V3 1000W 80+ Gold · Case: Fractal Design North Mesh · Monitor: MSI Optix MAG342CQR 34” UWQHD 3440x1440 144Hz · Keyboard: EPOMAKER x Aula F99 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard · Mouse: Logitech G309 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse

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Get the Pro4 if possible. I have the DS3H, and I wish I didnt. It's an absolute bare-bones board, with the only real benefit being the b450 chipset and the 4 dimm slots. The biggest problem I had was fan headers. You only get 2, and I realised afterwards that I wanted to be able to control the speed on my 3 case fans. After reading about the downsides of splitters I settled on a fan hub which added another £20, and buy adding a that price I could have just gotten a B450 Mortar. Also had issues with enabling xmp on ram, but that may have been due to the specific modules.

 

Tldr: it's very basic and only buy if you can't spare any extra

PC

Ryzen 5 2600 Stock

Sapphire Nitro+ Special Edition Radeon RX580 8GB (Would Recommend)

Gigabyte B450M DS3H (Don't recommend)

Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition

Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4 3000MHz CL15 

Phanteks P300 (Would Recommend)

Kingston A400 240GB SSD

Seagate BarraCuda 1TB HDD

Corsair CX550M 550W  80+ Bronze

Deepcool FH-10 Fan Hub

3x BeQuiet Pure Wings 2

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/marmour/saved/QTY3ZL

 

Peripherals

LG 24MK400H

Logitech G413 Carbon

Logitech G305 (AAA Adaptor - 10g reduction) (Would recommend)

Logitech Z150

HyperX Cloud II (Would recommend)

Moto G5 Plus (Webcam)

 

Phone

Pixel 3A XL (Would recommend)

 

*Useful Link* PSU Tier List: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psucultists-psu-tier-list/

 

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8 minutes ago, Mateimm said:

5 1600 AF, I'm looking at those boards but don't know if I can stretch my budget that far. 

Then you should save your money so you can afford a better one down the road. As others pointed out, neither one of them are worth the salt of the earth, so saving up for a better one is for your own good, or just get the pro-4 version. 👍👍

System Specs

  • CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
  • Motherboard
    Gigabyte AMD X570 Auros Master
  • RAM
    G.Skill Ripjaws 32 GBs
  • GPU
    Red Devil RX 5700XT
  • Case
    Corsair 570X
  • Storage
    Samsung SSD 860 QVO 2TB - HDD Seagate B arracuda 1TB - External Seagate HDD 8TB
  • PSU
    G.Skill RipJaws 1250 Watts
  • Keyboard
    Corsair Gaming Keyboard K55
  • Mouse
    Razer Naga Trinity
  • Operating System
    Windows 10
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