WHICH MOBO TO KEEP? AORUS B450 PRO AX, AORUS B450 ELITE WI-FI OR ASROCK X570?

[Pharr Carnell]

Just simply wondering about which one do I keep? I like the look of the Aorus as it is a great match for my system...the X570 I am running now without issues at all, but I have acquired both of the specified Aorus boards through a couple of deals...and am seriously considering just going back to a 3900X into whichever board I end up keeping...and I'll sell the other boards and my current 5950X - because it is just plain overkill for my PC needs...and I would like to minimise how much dinero I have laying around in parts that I do not need...

 

Thoughts anyone? Everyone? 

[Jurrunio]

You hae to be more precise about the Asrock board, they have like 6 X570 boards...

 

Also the CPU you'll replace the 5950X with also matters. Gigabyte B450 boards are all lackluster in terms of power delivery so anything more than the 5600X will get a "no" from me.

[Dutch_Master]

Your problem flipping the unwanted boards is that they're all still available new, so you won't be getting rich selling those, if that's what you're after. Expect some 60-65% of MSRP at best. True, it's more money in your hands then what you now have I guess

 

Also, mainboards tend to die quicker then the CPU they support, so it's quite convenient to have a replacement board available when that happens. It may not be as good as the board that failed, at least you can continue whatever you were doing when it died with only a small intermission for swapping out parts.

 

As for a new CPU, when I upgraded my desktop earlier this year I was severely budget-constrained and choose an AMD Ryzen 1700 (non-X!) over the 2700 that was more then twice the price at the time. And it was a used CPU. From Aliexpress, no less   Works like a charm, as expected, but in all I paid under $300 US for the entire upgrade (mainboard, CPU, RAM).

[Pharr Carnell]

I did forget to be specific...it's a phantom Gaming 4 ATX...I managed to source another working system with the 3900X - it cost me shipped about the same as what I would expect to sell the 5950X for...thinking along these lines as I used au.partspicker the night before last and my current system topped out at over $AU7,000.00 !!! That is my reason for deciding to sensibly downgrade somewhat...

[xg32]

the 5950x is so much better than the 3900x, just keep it, since you can afford both the difference that you'll keep isnt bad, not sure about the board since we need more details.

[Pharr Carnell]

I had an Aorus board before I got the Asrock but I couldn't figure out how to alter the Dram Frequency and so the ram was running at default timings...also had tried an MSI X570 Max Tomahawk Wi-Fi ATX board...which was great but same issues...ram only ran at 2133...even MSI Tech support couldn't help...the Viper ram was not on the QVL and that was that...even though I could set XMP in the BIOS of the Tomahawk - the board would not recognise the 4 x Patriot Viper 32 GB sticks of ram...and would fail to reboot...just cycle away doing nothing with a blank screen; and then when it was restarted...ram at 2133!!

 

So then I happened upon this Phantom 4 Gaming Asrock board...and really simple! Set XMP to profile #1 and then straight underneath that line in the BIOS...Dram Frequency...click and select what speed you want to try. Did this and had several different sets of ram running a various speeds...even some Ballistic 3000 which I got up to 3800 and stable...doing nothing other than changing the Dram Frequency setting...am not "au fait" with detailed O/C...didn't want to go through all the cycles and idiosyncracies of timings etc...so very happy to just settle for the ease of the Asrock board.

 

But then acquiring the on-board Wi-Fi Aorus board...would prefer to have a matched set in my system board, 240 RGB AIO Aorus liquid cooling with a Gigabyte RTX as the newer Wi-Fi speeds of the latest spec is a definite improvement of the PCI-E Wi-Fi adapter I currently have...