new mobo for PC

[NerveRSA]

Ive been looking at building a 2nd PC and was wondering on going with the MSI X570-A PRO AMD X570. Ive heard a couple of bad things as well as a couple of bad things with the past couple of msi products VRMs and capacitors that have been released into the public recently. woul this be fine paired with a ryzen 7 5800x and 6700xt 

[Herman Mcpootis]

best not, that board has a garbage VRM. a B550-A Pro or B550 Tomahawk are much better choices.

[mariushm]

There's no point going with x570 motherboards unless you really need 2 or more  pci-e 4.0 M.2 connectors. 

 

B550 motherboards in the same price range almost always have better VRMs and better features.

 

ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS  for example should be much cheaper and the only differences are ALC1200 instead of ALC1220, probably 2 sata ports less (only 4 ports instead of 6) and fewer pci-e slots because it's a mATX board.  It can handle 5800x without any problems.

The ATX version ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS is around the same price, only difference is 6 sata ports and 2 extra pci-e x1 slots. 

 

I personally bought GIGABYTE B550M AORUS PRO-P , should be visible in my profile... love it, works perfectly fine for me. It's even cheaper than the Asus one above, and in theory the VRM is slightly better. 

 

I like plain boards, as simple colors as possible, no "busy" designs..  the only negative could be that there's only 4 sata ports... but really on lots of boards if you use the 2nd m.2 connector, 2 sata ports get disabled, so you end up with 4 ports anyway.

 

 

 

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

42 minutes ago, NerveRSA said:

Ive been looking at building a 2nd PC and was wondering on going with the MSI X570-A PRO AMD X570. Ive heard a couple of bad things as well as a couple of bad things with the past couple of msi products VRMs and capacitors that have been released into the public recently. woul this be fine paired with a ryzen 7 5800x and 6700xt 

What kind of features do you need from the board anyways? Cause i would suggest buying the cheapest sht that can handle the cpu and nothing more, according to us pcpp theres a b550 pg velocita (better than extreme4) for only 140$ so if you are in the us thats a good deal, though if you can find far cheaper boards in the ~100-110$ range then sure why not

[NerveRSA]

28 minutes ago, mariushm said:

I personally bought GIGABYTE B550M AORUS PRO-P , should be visible in my profile... love it, works perfectly fine for me. It's even cheaper than the Asus one above, and in theory the VRM is slightly better. 

i was actually looking at that board and its a bit cheaper too. thanks man appreciate this one king