What motherboard for R5 1600 With a 4.0Ghz Overlock

[lukesterboy]

I plan on buying a R5 1600 and also plan to overclock it to 4.0Ghz. I have this motherboard in mind at the moment. It has 6 power phases. I'm wondering or rather my question is will these 6 phases on this board be enough to handle a 4.0Ghz overclock on the R5 1600. I don't really understand how you calculate wattage the cpu will draw and if the motherboard can run that stable. Bearing in mind this cheaper motherboard has no VRM cooling, so i think anyway, it looks like it. Or the other motherboard i'm looking at is this other ASUS one which has VRM cooling is this. So is it worth the extra £38 pounds? The reason i'm looking at ASUS is because they have 6 sata connectors and i have many hard drives and ssd's and disk drives that i will be connecting so 6 is required. Unless you have any other motherboard recommendations please feel free to leave them here.

[just_dave]

These have the same VRM but i suggest you go with the Strix. Prime has ancient audio and LAN

These Asus boards are one of the two actually fine B350 VRM designs, only two worth a damn as well.

 

[xIHuNTeRIx]

Asus PRIME B350-PLUS

you want this for 4ghz also not expensive

[lukesterboy]

2 hours ago, xIHuNTeRIx said:

Asus PRIME B350-PLUS

you want this for 4ghz also not expensive

Yes? Is it ok for 4ghz?

[lukesterboy]

2 hours ago, dave_k said:

These have the same VRM but i suggest you go with the Strix. Prime has ancient audio and LAN

These Asus boards are one of the two actually fine B350 VRM designs, only two worth a damn as well.

 

Ahh right, who else makes the vrm designs worth a damn, gigabyte. How about no overclock and go with the b350-plus?

[Tech Wizard]

Go with Strix B350-F Gaming. It's the best B350 motherboard out there, and can handle a big overclock without VRMs getting hot/damaged over time.

[Emberstone]

1 hour ago, lukesterboy said:

Ahh right, who else makes the vrm designs worth a damn, gigabyte. How about no overclock and go with the b350-plus?

There's really no point in not overclocking Ryzen. My 1600X sits comfortably at 4.0 GHz on a Prime B350 Plus without toasting the VRM. I'd recommend the board.

[lukesterboy]

1 minute ago, Emberstone said:

There's really no point in not overclocking Ryzen. My 1600X sits comfortably at 4.0 GHz on a Prime B350 Plus without toasting the VRM. I'd recommend the board.

Ok, but I'm getting the 1600 so wanted to clock it up to be the same as the 1600x but if the performance gain isn't worth risking toasting the VRM's then I'll just get the b350-plus and keep it stock. Do you know what the performance difference is between the 1600 and 1600x?

[Emberstone]

8 minutes ago, lukesterboy said:

Ok, but I'm getting the 1600 so wanted to clock it up to be the same as the 1600x but if the performance gain isn't worth risking toasting the VRM's then I'll just get the b350-plus and keep it stock. Do you know what the performance difference is between the 1600 and 1600x?

You won't toast the VRM on that board with that chip. Go for as much performance as you can get. As for performance differences, a stock 1600 will perform around the low 1100s in Cinebench, a stock 1600X will perform around the mid 1200s, and at 4.0 GHz I score around 1340-1350 with 3066 MHz memory.

[just_dave]

7 hours ago, lukesterboy said:

Ahh right, who else makes the vrm designs worth a damn, gigabyte. How about no overclock and go with the b350-plus?

Gigabyte sucks all the way.

The Prime is fine

[lukesterboy]

1 hour ago, dave_k said:

Gigabyte sucks all the way.

The Prime is fine

Ok, thanks. Prime it is.

[lukesterboy]

7 hours ago, Emberstone said:

You won't toast the VRM on that board with that chip. Go for as much performance as you can get. As for performance differences, a stock 1600 will perform around the low 1100s in Cinebench, a stock 1600X will perform around the mid 1200s, and at 4.0 GHz I score around 1340-1350 with 3066 MHz memory.

Ok cool, I plan to get 3200Mhz ram of lpx in 2x4gb. Hopefully it works and Ryzen likes it ;).

[xIHuNTeRIx]

16 hours ago, Tech Wizard said:

Go with Strix B350-F Gaming. It's the best B350 motherboard out there, and can handle a big overclock without VRMs getting hot/damaged over time.

yep strix b350 f will be better but cost more