b550 aorus master or x570 tomahawk?

[suflair]

Hey guys, after weeks and weeks of waiting for the x570 tomahawk to enter pre-order status again, i finally managed to get one (aprox ~$254), but i saw a b550 aorus master for $250, which one would you guys recommend me to get?

[Daniel1]

x570 tomahawk

[suflair]

Just now, Daniel1 said:

x570 tomahawk

thanks for the reply, any reasons why i should go with the tomahawk? seems like the b550 master has better Vrm's 

[rice guru]

x570 tomahawk you get all the perks of x570 

[rice guru]

Just now, suflair said:

thanks for the reply, any reasons why i should go with the tomahawk? seems like the b550 master has better Vrm's 

vrms can onhly get you so far the x570 VRMS  are also pretty top tier

[Daniel1]

I prefer the x570 because of the overclocking and number of  m.2 slots.

[suflair]

1 minute ago, Daniel1 said:

One big reason that I can remember straight away is PCI 4.0.

i see, the x570 is more future proof right? just wanted to make sure i bought the best motherboard in the $250 price range. 

Thanks!

[VeganJoy]

if youre only using 1 m.2 or you dont care about gpu lanes and have 3 m.2, the b550 is the way. performance-wise its a monster, the vrms and memory overclocking is top notch. very good build quality as well, has the fancy bells and whistles like a backplate and all that. 

[spartaman64]

5 minutes ago, Daniel1 said:

One big reason that I can remember straight away is PCI 4.0.

they both have pcie 4.0

[suflair]

21 minutes ago, VeganJoy said:

if youre only using 1 m.2 or you dont care about gpu lanes and have 3 m.2, the b550 is the way. performance-wise its a monster, the vrms and memory overclocking is top notch. very good build quality as well, has the fancy bells and whistles like a backplate and all that. 

considering money isnt a problem, is the x570 master the way to go?

[VeganJoy]

well in that case yes lol, or a c8 hero or anything else then. tbh the vrms are good enough on every b550/x570 so look for other features like m.2 support, wifi 6, dual bios, aesthetics, memory overclocking, all that. iirc the b550 master actually has better vrms than the x570 master (think its the monster 16 phase setup from the xtreme) but at that point its "will my vrms be too cold" territory lol

[Haro]

11 hours ago, suflair said:

which one would you guys recommend me to get?

The aorus master has the better vrm, it uses the same vrm as the x570 aorus extreme which is a 700 dollar board, and that is an XDPE132G5C and 14 TDA21472's and is better than the vrm on the tomahawk. 

However, the tomahawk does come with the x570 chipset meaning pcie gen 4 across the whole board, and the lanes configuration on the aorus master is a little odd. 

Over all though they're both more than enough for any cpu in terms of vrm. 

11 hours ago, Daniel1 said:

prefer the x570 because of the overclocking

Both boards allow that.

Edited September 3, 2020 by TofuHaroto