Ryzen mATX mobos

ivan134 · July 2, 2017

So, which are the good ones? I haven't been keeping up with the BIOS updates for the platform so I'm not up to date. I'm leaning towards AsRock B350M Pro 4 since it's the closes thing to a black motherboard with some white on it and no red. Is it good? Also, how are the MSI B350M BAZOOKA and B350m MORTAR ARCTIC?

Also, will the 1600x boost on a B350 board or will I need X370?

NoRomanBatmansAllowed · July 2, 2017

4 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

Also, will the 1600x boost on a B350 board or will I need X370?

It will OC, yes. Pretty sure it'll boost on all chipsets.

Damascus · July 2, 2017

The Biostar boards are OK and have very no red accents, only a red led that can be turned off.

JoostinOnline · July 2, 2017

It will boost on all chipsets. You can't overclock on all of them though.

Questargon · July 2, 2017

I had an ASUS B350M-A and am currently running a MSI B350M Gaming Pro. Both are good boards IMHO and the standard clock multiplier of both of them sits at 37x on idle, so my 1600X runs at 3700 MHz unless it gets too hot (which only happens while doing CPU stress tests in my system).

MSI has nice fan control in its BIOS, ASUS has the better tools for controlling the mainboard in Windows 10 (AI Suite III). MSI has several different tools for Windows and some versions of them don't run stable on Ryzen - but I refrained from installing them because I was able to set everything I needed to in the BIOS. MSI has better fan curve control as well IMHO, because you can lower the top fan speed when the processor runs hot. The ASUS board won't let you do that. CPU temps >95°C and the ASUS board runs the CPU fan at 100%, no matter what. And remember: AMD puts +20°C to that temperature sensor for all Ryzen-X-Processors, so you get full fan speed with really 75°C of the CPU.

Another advantage of the MSI board: There's a PCIe x1 slot above the PCIe x16 slot, so you can install another PCIe-Card (a soundcard or WIFI) without blocking the fans of your graphics card.

If you don't have another PCIe x1 card and don't want to add one anytime soon but need a M.2/NVMe SSD, then the ASUS might be the better choice, because the M.2 slot is near the CPU and a SSD there might catch some air from the CPU cooler.

Never tried the ASRock, although its layout seems to be fine. SSD and PCIe x1 above the PCIe x16 Slot and another one to spare - I like it. But I don't know how good the mobo tools are or how stable this board runs.