Ryzen Mobo between $150-200

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Okay so I've been looking at all the ryzen motherboards and most seem to have pretty shit reviews. After reading them, most of the shit reviews have to do with ram speeds in the BIOS. What ATX mobo would you guys suggest within the $150-200 price range that, after all the BIOS updates and whatnot, is a good motherboard?

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4 minutes ago, Dale B said:

Okay so I've been looking at all the ryzen motherboards and most seem to have pretty shit reviews. After reading them, most of the shit reviews have to do with ram speeds in the BIOS. What ATX mobo would you guys suggest within the $150-200 price range that, after all the BIOS updates and whatnot, is a good motherboard?

Nope, all motherboards will have that review. It's a problem with Ryzen, that most boards patch with a BIOS update.

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7 minutes ago, Dale B said:

Okay so I've been looking at all the ryzen motherboards and most seem to have pretty shit reviews. After reading them, most of the shit reviews have to do with ram speeds in the BIOS. What ATX mobo would you guys suggest within the $150-200 price range that, after all the BIOS updates and whatnot, is a good motherboard?

GA-AX370-Gaming-K3, it has turbo b clock.

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29 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Nope, all motherboards will have that review. It's a problem with Ryzen, that most boards patch with a BIOS update.

I know, that's why I'm asking which ones are good now that most of the BIOS's have been updated. 

26 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

GA-AX370-Gaming-K3, it has turbo b clock.

Can you link? I can only find the K5 and up for some reason

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Just now, Dale B said:

I know, that's why I'm asking which ones are good now that most of the BIOS's have been updated. 

Can you link? I can only find the K5 and up for some reason

http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AX370-Gaming-K3-rev-10#kf

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1 minute ago, TrigrH said:

http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AX370-Gaming-K3-rev-10#kf

I meant like a purchase link. Nothing showed up on newegg or amazon when I searched it.

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4 minutes ago, Dale B said:

I meant like a purchase link. Nothing showed up on newegg or amazon when I searched it.

Hmm I can only see stores in my country, you should be able to find the K5 for $200, its better anyway.

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Do you need the X370 chipset?  (Mainly if you need multiGPU, BCLK overclocking or want extra M.2 slots or whatever)

 

My general impression so far is:

 

Asrock, Asus, and Gigabyte are updating the most frequently.  Of the three I would say Asrock is the most solid while Asus is cutting edge and gigabyte is in between.

 

MSi is updating slower after their beta BIOS started bricking boards and they're being much more cautious.   Some boards got a new BIOS update yesterday, some have not. 

 

Biostar I'm not sure.

 

I personally bought a MSI X370 SLI PLUS which was a bargain in terms of price point and it certainly runs well enough but it's in desperate need of a BIOS update to fix the POST times.  Overclocking wise I had no major issues.  3.9 GHz on the CPU and 2933 MHz on the memory.  Sleep mode also doesn't recover properly but that may be an overclocking issue.  

 

My suggestion would be a B350 board from Asrock or Gigabyte.  Don't expect > 2933 MHz RAM until future updates hit, but 2933 is plenty fast.

 

Asrock: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157761&cm_re=asrock_b350-_-13-157-761-_-Product