No heatsink on motherboards, is it that bad?

[AlexU]

I do know heatsinks do help keep the temps down on vrms but are they really necessary in a good airflow pc?

B350 boards with no heatsink are so cheap and  it is tempting to save a few bucks to reach a tight budget. 

Would this motherboard be OK for a ryzen 5 2400g? :

https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GA-AB350M-D3H-Ryzen-CrossFire-Motherboard/dp/B06XJRD9TY

It does have USB 3.1 witch is nice, and I do not plan to overclock much (just the ram and a bit the igpu without raising the voltage) 

[Crunchy Dragon]

There is a heatsink there, between the socket and I/O.

 

If you don't plan on doing too much, I wouldn't consider having all the VRM heatsinks a necessity, just make sure there's plenty of airflow around them.

[GoldenLag]

You can get decent B 350 boards for the same price with heatsinks

 

Here are two i would recommend

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/dWL7YJ/asrock-ab350m-pro4-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-ab350m-pro4

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/yBtWGX/asrock-ab350-pro4-atx-am4-motherboard-ab350-pro4

[GoldenLag]

Grab one of the boards i recommended, also you are better of grabbing a 2200G. You save money with minimal performance loss. I assume yiu are going to pick up a GPU later on.

 

Last thing is not to skimp on the PSU. If you want to save a buck, here is a decent cheap budget CPU. 

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/FdRFf7/corsair-cx-2017-550w-80-bronze-certified-atx-power-supply-cp-9020121-na

[Frenky]

7 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Grab one of the boards i recommended, also you are better of grabbing a 2200G. You save money with minimal performance loss. I assume yiu are going to pick up a GPU later on.

Yeah graphics wise, but I def would spend the extra money on 4 more threads, esp in late 2018...

[seon123]

Gamersnexus tested an Asus board without VRM heatsinks, the components ran really hot. And for do keep in mind that Gigabyte's B350 VRM is even less efficient. 

Spoiler

 

Also, Gigabyte's 4 phase VRM (same as on the K5) seems to send about 100mV higher than what you set the voltage to. 

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3251-raven-ridge-soc-voltage-guidelines-how-to-kill-cpu-with-safe-voltage

[GoldenLag]

40 minutes ago, Frenky said:

Yeah graphics wise, but I def would spend the extra money on 4 more threads, esp in late 2018...

Why? The CPU is allready very competent, and unless you do heavily threaded workloads there arent any good reasons. The 2400G doesnt offer much in performance anyways. Its just not a great value CPU.