Motherboard Help

[tryagaintony]

Budget (including currency): Whatever it costs

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cod, GTA, Cyberpunk, Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2 & other Triple A single player story driven titles as well as for production such as video editing with adobe software

Other details I've narrowed my motherboard search down to 3 boards which are the ASRock B650E Taichi Lite, Asus ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WiFi & the MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi. I need help determining are there any real benefits over one rather than the other that would make it an obvious winner as far as VRM, Sustainability, Build Quality or Extra Features the other boards might not have. Thank you for any help!

 

[Tetras]

B650E has PCI-E 5.0 graphics, B650 does not.

 

B650E Taichi Lite has rear USB4 (1).

 

Tomahawk and Taichi Lite have rear SPDIF.

 

Both B650E boards have a PCI-E 5.0 M.2 slot, Tomahawk has none.

 

Taichi Lite has an 8-layer PCB and the best VRM.

[Zenny232323]

Realistically,  any board with good vrm cooling is good.

 

I'd just see the reviews of the boards and see what people complain about. If a 100 people say their motherboard broke by itself, it's probably not a user error.

 

Taichi is high end, then comes the asus and then the msi. They're all decent boards, and to be honest, no gpu right now uses pcie gen 5, maybe the 5090 will, but unless you really think you'll buy one, don't bother, get a board with good vrm cooling and features you like.