ASUS vs AsRock Best AM4 motherboard

[daweakling]

Decided on a Ryzen CPU now looking for a good motherboard. 

[PineyCreek]

Lots of people swear by the Crosshair.  I'm going for the Asrock X370 Taichi board myself.  How important are the extra 2 SATA ports, AQUANTIA ethernet, and TPM compatibility worth to you?

[EunSoo]

Which one is the cheapest?

[daweakling]

10 hours ago, PineyCreek said:

Lots of people swear by the Crosshair.  I'm going for the Asrock X370 Taichi board myself.  How important are the extra 2 SATA ports, AQUANTIA ethernet, and TPM compatibility worth to you?

Yeah the Taichi is the same PCB as the Professional just those features removed. I believe the price is very similar in the store I am looking to buy. 

 

10 hours ago, SCGazelle said:

Which one is the cheapest?

Both are the same price. ASUS = $245 and AsRock = $249

[airdeano]

if you are a 'hardcore' overclocker, the ch6h prolly will be beneficial. the UEFI updates on the ASRock seem to be untimely and inefficient.

if looking for moderate clocks, the msi/asus could be a better choice in price and features. my asrock x370 k4 is fine, but for what overall has been done, the simpler b350 boards can do the same at a better cost. if straining for all GHz or dual GPU is needed, then x370.

 

x370 for 8cores, 6cores

b350 for light clocked 8cores, 6cores and 4cores.

[wzrd]

7 minutes ago, airdeano said:

if you are a 'hardcore' overclocker, the ch6h prolly will be beneficial. the UEFI updates on the ASRock seem to be untimely and inefficient.

if looking for moderate clocks, the msi/asus could be a better choice in price and features. my asrock x370 k4 is fine, but for what overall has been done, the simpler b350 boards can do the same at a better cost. if straining for all GHz or dual GPU is needed, then x370.

 

x370 for 8cores, 6cores

b350 for light clocked 8cores, 6cores and 4cores.

This. The X370 AsRock board BIOSs are an absolute pain to overclock heavily on. The VRM is great, but the BIOS is very unwieldy and a pain in the ass. The Crosshair is much easier to overclock on, the BIOS is excellent.

 

That said, the AsRock is still a great board in terms of specs, just a pain to work with. To clarify though, I use AsRock boards almost exclusively in Intel builds and haven't had the same BIOS issues, so it's very possible/likely that these issues will be rectified in future BIOS revisions.

 

In summary, you can't go wrong with the Crosshair motherboards, but there is nothing wrong with the Taichi apart from its painful BIOS.

[Jumper118]

both boards suck pretty hard. i would get a biostar gt7. way cheaper than both, better vrm than the asus and has dual bios like the gigabyte  

[daweakling]

I was focused on the AsRock because of the better VRM design. I started my research with the videos Actually Hardware Overclocking made about the different X370 motherboards. I do agree the BIOS in the AsRock is a pain to work with but maybe they will fix it in the upcoming updates. I know ASUS is the more popular board and maybe it will get added features first before the others. 

 

Both boards are very good but I just cannot make up my mind. The AsRock BIOS is a little annoying but I hope they will fix it. 

[n1c0]

What did you end up going with?

[He_162]

I'd just get the MSI x370 gaming pro carbon if I were you, all the Asrock AM4 boards have issues saving the bios properly, as well as resetting it, I've always had issues with Asrock boards.