Why B650 tomahawk has more connectivity than x670e and x870 tomahawk?

Tadziunia · November 8

Hello gentlemen!

Picking new motherboard since my asrock board died and notice one bizarre thing about msi boards.

This is B650 tomahawk wifi 200eur

This is x670e tomahawk wifi 280eur

This is new X870 tomahawk 320eur

Somehow B650 Has more usb 4.0 and more usb 3.0 ports than x870 while costing far less and also having DP port in addition to hdmi.

Yeah i understand x870 has three usb c fancy ports, however i never used, maybe once on my b650e pg riptide motherboard which died.

X870 also has wifi 7 which also won't be felt since usually using gigabyte port is the way to go. I also understand that its more than just usb's

but neither x670e and x870 with it's extra m2 gen 5 slots, doesn't matter when ssd's are still overpriced and difference is almost non for daily usage compared to good gen 4 ssd.

Could it be, that b650 tomahawk is just better value overall ?

Needfuldoer · November 8

3 minutes ago, Tadziunia said:

Yeah i understand x870 has three usb c fancy ports

That's why. The less expensive board has more, but slower, USB ports.

Two of the USB type C ports on the x870 board also handle DisplayPort, so it actually has three display outputs. It just doesn't have a native "traditional" DisplayPort port.

Tadziunia · November 8

3 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

That's why. The less expensive board has more, but slower, USB ports.

Two of the USB type C ports on the x870 board also handle DisplayPort, so it actually has three display outputs. It just doesn't have a native "traditional" DisplayPort port.

So they actually chose usb c which can handle monitors however even my recently bought alienware AW3225QF 4k 240hz doesn't have usb c to use thunderbolt cable, maybe usb c to dp, but that's just inconvenient.

Agall · November 8

39 minutes ago, Tadziunia said:

So they actually chose usb c which can handle monitors however even my recently bought alienware AW3225QF 4k 240hz doesn't have usb c to use thunderbolt cable, maybe usb c to dp, but that's just inconvenient.

I'd still just use standard DP, even DP 1.4 with DSC to run 4K 240Hz. You wouldn't be using the type-c port on the motherboard to display output to a gaming display unless that motherboard had a DP-in to passthrough that signal. I would then still not use that for a high end gaming monitor because it should add some latency, so keeping it simple is best.