Motherboard issues

[RewnHazel]

Budget (including currency): Motherboard for under $200 US All the other parts have shipped

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: WoW, FFXIV, eventually Diablo 4 Baldur's Gate

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 
Hey

So I decided to build a new tower. Problem is I'm struggling to find a motherboard. I was going with the MSI Pro B450, but it looks like that will take some time before it will even ship.

Also I keep getting these notes

"The Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler may require a separately available mounting adapter to fit the MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard."

"The motherboard M.2 slot #1 shares bandwidth with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. When the M.2 slot is populated, two SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports are disabled."

Is there another motherboard out that that will work better for my build?

Thanks

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	$279.30 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler	$34.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$57.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive	$149.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Western Digital Blue 2 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive	$52.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB KO GAMING Video Card
Case	Deepcool MATREXX 50 ATX Mid Tower Case	$49.99 @ B&H
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit	$108.78 @ Other World Computing
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$734.03
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-20 08:44 EDT-0400

 

[WaggishOhio383]

7 minutes ago, RewnHazel said:

"The Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler may require a separately available mounting adapter to fit the MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard."

This will be the case with any motherboard you get. The cooler master cooler mounts differently than the stock AMD coolers, so you have to use a mounting adapter for it to work. Not to worry though as the mounting adapter should come with the cooler, and it's not that hard to put on.

 

7 minutes ago, RewnHazel said:

"The motherboard M.2 slot #1 shares bandwidth with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. When the M.2 slot is populated, two SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports are disabled."

I'm not sure if this would be the case with other motherboards, but as long as the board has at least three SATA ports, you should be fine. It looks like you're only planning on using one SATA hard drive.

 

7 minutes ago, RewnHazel said:

Is there another motherboard out that that will work better for my build?

There might be, but good luck finding one right now. Most places are either sold out, or selling the ones they have for ridiculously high prices due to the high demand and low supply.

[zeusthemoose]

9 minutes ago, RewnHazel said:

"The motherboard M.2 slot #1 shares bandwidth with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. When the M.2 slot is populated, two SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports are disabled."

All motherboards are like that. When you have a drive in the m.2 slot, it will disable certain SATA ports (which port depends on which motherboard you have) but B450 usually have 6 sata ports, so it will be fine as long as you dont plan on using more than 6 sata drives.

 

For recommendations, take a look at the motherboard tier list in my signature. These are some of the good models:

• MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
• MSI B450 Mortar (Max or not)
• MSI B450 Gaming Pro

 

[sgteaglefort]

5 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

All motherboards are like that. When you have a drive in the m.2 slot, it will disable certain SATA ports (which port depends on which motherboard you have) but B450 usually have 6 sata ports, so it will be fine as long as you dont plan on using more than 6 sata drives.

 

For recommendations, take a look at the motherboard tier list in my signature. These are some of the good models:

• MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
• MSI B450 Mortar (Max or not)
• MSI B450 Gaming Pro

 

MR moose is correct unless you are using high end chip and board like threadripper ect, using m.2 in certain slots will disable a sata port or 2.

Most of the time for b450 your board will have 2 m.2 and only one will cause this. 

[boggy77]

i would go with one of these motherboards:

Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO

MSI B550-A PRO

ASRock B550M Pro4

Asus TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS

 

I wouldn't buy the 212 evo, but one of these:

Noctua NH-U12S

ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO

Scythe FUMA 2

Noctua NH-D14

Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4

 

 

 

 

 

[Ralf]

4 minutes ago, sgteaglefort said:

MR moose is correct unless you are using high end chip and board like threadripper ect, using m.2 in certain slots will disable a sata port or 2.

X370, x470 and x570 boards do not disable anything.

 

Anyway, why does OP pay $150 for a 860 EVO when the MX500 or even the SX8200 Pro is cheaper? Any why do people still buy Hyper 212 in 2020?

[RewnHazel]

 

14 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

All motherboards are like that. When you have a drive in the m.2 slot, it will disable certain SATA ports (which port depends on which motherboard you have) but B450 usually have 6 sata ports, so it will be fine as long as you dont plan on using more than 6 sata drives.

 

For recommendations, take a look at the motherboard tier list in my signature. These are some of the good models:

• MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
• MSI B450 Mortar (Max or not)
• MSI B450 Gaming Pro

 

I will take a look at that list.

 

4 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

i would go with one of these motherboards:

Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO

MSI B550-A PRO

ASRock B550M Pro4

Asus TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS

 

I wouldn't buy the 212 evo, but one of these:

Noctua NH-U12S

ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO

Scythe FUMA 2

Noctua NH-D14

Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4

 

 

 

 

 

I will check out those options as well. I'm wasn't thrilled about having to get an adapter since it seems like there may be some supply issues.

Thanks everyone

[zeusthemoose]

5 minutes ago, RewnHazel said:

I'm wasn't thrilled about having to get an adapter since it seems like there may be some supply issues.

The adapter for that cooler should come with it.