Is buying a H410 or a B460 motherboard worth it if I'm not going to overclock?

[LoneWanderer20]

Hello there.

 

I'll try to make this question as short as possible, basically I'm upgrading my PC. Is it worth it going for a H410 motherboard if I'm not going to overclock my CPU (or GPU) ever except of course of XMP which doesn't really count as overclocking. Are their VRM's that bad do they throttle to the point where they bring down performance. Also if I want to upgrade later on like even 5 years later to an i7. Will I be bottlenecked by the 2666mhz ram speed?

 

The motherboard I'm thinking to buy is either a MSI H-410 pro or a MSI B460M-A Pro. I was looking some Gigabyte H410 motherboards and B460 one's as well. Thank you in advance.

 

PC Specs i'll pair it with.

CPU:I5-10400F

RAM:16GB 2666mhz

GPU: GTX 1070

PSU: Corsair VS550 (will replace this one down the line)

2 HDD's

1 SSD

 

my specs now.

I7-3770

8GB DDR3

1070

PSU: Corsair VS550

2 HDD's

1 SSD

 

[Downkey]

11 minutes ago, LoneWanderer20 said:

Hello there.

 

I'll try to make this question as short as possible, basically I'm upgrading my PC. Is it worth it going for a H410 motherboard if I'm not going to overclock my CPU (or GPU) ever except of course of XMP which doesn't really count as overclocking. Are their VRM's that bad do they throttle to the point where they bring down performance. Also if I want to upgrade later on like even 5 years later to an i7. Will I be bottlenecked by the 2666mhz ram speed?

 

The motherboard I'm thinking to buy is either a MSI H-410 pro or a MSI B460M-A Pro. I was looking some Gigabyte H410 motherboards and B460 one's as well. Thank you in advance.

 

PC Specs i'll pair it with.

CPU:I5-10400F

RAM:16GB 2666mhz

GPU: GTX 1070

PSU: Corsair VS550 (will replace this one down the line)

2 HDD's

1 SSD

 

my specs now.

I7-3770

8GB DDR3

1070

PSU: Corsair VS550

2 HDD's

1 SSD

 

So both of the motherboards you listed aren't very good, but the B460-PRO should be okay for a 10400f, although that's the max id go.

Also the 2666MHZ RAM speed will hurt your performance a bit. If you are going for a Z490 board just go for a Ryzen 3600 instead.

 

[Pixelfie]

43 minutes ago, LoneWanderer20 said:

Hello there.

 

I'll try to make this question as short as possible, basically I'm upgrading my PC. Is it worth it going for a H410 motherboard if I'm not going to overclock my CPU (or GPU) ever except of course of XMP which doesn't really count as overclocking. Are their VRM's that bad do they throttle to the point where they bring down performance. Also if I want to upgrade later on like even 5 years later to an i7. Will I be bottlenecked by the 2666mhz ram speed?

 

The motherboard I'm thinking to buy is either a MSI H-410 pro or a MSI B460M-A Pro. I was looking some Gigabyte H410 motherboards and B460 one's as well. Thank you in advance.

 

PC Specs i'll pair it with.

CPU:I5-10400F

RAM:16GB 2666mhz

GPU: GTX 1070

PSU: Corsair VS550 (will replace this one down the line)

2 HDD's

1 SSD

 

my specs now.

I7-3770

8GB DDR3

1070

PSU: Corsair VS550

2 HDD's

1 SSD

 

 Maybe you could use something like an ASRock B460M Pro4? That has a much better audio chip & VRM, also a slightly better network chip and more RAM slots. I'd say for what you currently want your options are fine, but this is much better if you plan on upgrading. Also the 10400F doesn't allow above 2666mhz anyway so that should be fine.

[Mister Woof]

It's fine for a 10400F, but if you ever plan to upgrade to one of the bigger CPUs in the future (10700k, 10900k, or even locked versions) you'll want to get a good Z490 instead.

 

The VRM on the motherboards for i5-10400/i3-10100 basically do not even matter as they're all sufficient on H series boards because they aren't that power hungry. 

 

So outside of future CPU usage, all you get from B boards are more features (m.2 slots, audio chip, USB, etc) and with Z boards is memory overclocking.

 

Some B series boards of this generation were better than Z490 boards, but they also lack the ability to overclock memory so I would not consider them even if they are better. I also would not consider poor quality Z490 boards.

 

 

[-rascal-]

1 hour ago, LoneWanderer20 said:

Hello there.

 

I'll try to make this question as short as possible, basically I'm upgrading my PC. Is it worth it going for a H410 motherboard if I'm not going to overclock my CPU (or GPU) ever except of course of XMP which doesn't really count as overclocking. Are their VRM's that bad do they throttle to the point where they bring down performance. Also if I want to upgrade later on like even 5 years later to an i7. Will I be bottlenecked by the 2666mhz ram speed?

 

The motherboard I'm thinking to buy is either a MSI H-410 pro or a MSI B460M-A Pro. I was looking some Gigabyte H410 motherboards and B460 one's as well. Thank you in advance.

 

PC Specs i'll pair it with.

CPU:I5-10400F

RAM:16GB 2666mhz

GPU: GTX 1070

PSU: Corsair VS550 (will replace this one down the line)

2 HDD's

1 SSD

 

my specs now.

I7-3770

8GB DDR3

1070

PSU: Corsair VS550

2 HDD's

1 SSD

 

 

According to Intel's warranty, XMP = Overclocking.

XMP to the *officially* supported DDR4-2666, or just changing the memory frequency to DDR4-2666, should not be considered overclocking...

Comparing a i5-10400F using DDR4-2666 vs DDR4-3200+, yes, you will see performance difference.