X470 VS B450

[travismoritz]

Hello, I'm looking at at building a new PC for gaming, and want to use a ryzen 5 2600, but what motherboard should i use? I've heard people say that both are better than the other, but I still don't really know. If it means anything I don't really want to mess with overclocking, but it'd be a nice thing to have in my back pocket if I ever want to. 

[GoldenLag]

A B450 Tomahawk from MSI or B450 Pro4 from ASrock. They are decent OC'ers though not like the higher end X470 boards. The lower end X series boards are just B350 boards in disguise

[Sakkura]

B450 has fewer USB3.0 ports and chipset PCIe lanes, and cannot split the CPU PCIe lanes for multi-GPU.

 

If you don't run SLI/Crossfire and don't need a lot of high-speed USB ports, B450 is fine.

 

3 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

A B450 Tomahawk from MSI or B450 Pro4 from ASrock. They are decent OC'ers though not like the higher end X470 boards. The lower end X series boards are just B350 boards in disguise

The Asrock B450 Pro4 only has 3 phases in the VCore VRM, not suitable for OC.

[Motifator]

Either way, do get a board with decent VRM as was tried to be mentioned. The lower end B450 boards use "dumb" phase configs that are like 4 VRMs plus another 2 that are like dumb units (couplers).

Mine does 4.1 just fine using my MSI X470 Gaming Pro, do OC it.

[seon123]

3 minutes ago, Motifator said:

Either way, do get a board with decent VRM as was tried to be mentioned. The lower end B450 boards use "dumb" phase configs that are like 4 VRMs plus another 2 that are like dumb units (couplers).

Mine does 4.1 just fine using my MSI X470 Gaming Pro, do OC it.

Fairly sure the X470 Gaming Pro is a 4+2 phase. The +2 is for SoC. 

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

The Asrock B450 Pro4 only has 3 phases in the VCore VRM, not suitable for OC.

They are decent VRMs with heatsinks. They can do light overclocks. Its better than what other brands offer at the same pricepoint. The tomahawk is slightly better, but costs a bit more. 

 

The two boards i mentioned are the better ones in the B450 selection. 

[Motifator]

1 minute ago, seon123 said:

Fairly sure the X470 Gaming Pro is a 4+2 phase. The +2 is for SoC. 

I didn't suggest that particular board but was just saying what it does using my board. I own a B450 board as well. If I was getting X470 right now I'd go with a Taichi but it sure as hell is overkill for that chip.

[Sakkura]

4 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

They are decent VRMs with heatsinks. They can do light overclocks. Its better than what other brands offer at the same pricepoint. The tomahawk is slightly better, but costs a bit more. 

 

The two boards i mentioned are the better ones in the B450 selection. 

The MSI B450M Pro-VDH is cheaper than the Asrock B450 Pro4 and has 4 phases with a heatsink. Same for the Gigabyte B450M DS3H.