2700 mobo

[WhispTV]

I am looking for a good motherboard for sub $200 more preferably $150. I see alot about vrm's and that alot of the X470 don't have great vrm's to help utilize the 2700 to its max potential. Which mobo should I look for. The ASUS prime was my original one I was looking at. 

[NelizMastr]

The regular 2700 will do fine on a B450 motherboard. The most well regarded board there appears to be the B450 Tomahawk by MSI.

[LukeSavenije]

I would say the fatal1ty k4 x470

[Void Master]

A gigabyte x470 aorus ultra gaming

 

[WhispTV]

1 hour ago, NelizMastr said:

The regular 2700 will do fine on a B450 motherboard. The most well regarded board there appears to be the B450 Tomahawk by MSI.

I've heard X470 is the way to go. 

[NelizMastr]

17 minutes ago, WhispTV said:

I've heard X470 is the way to go. 

For a 65W part? Nah. If you want to overclock the 2700X, sure.

[WhispTV]

1 hour ago, NelizMastr said:

For a 65W part? Nah. If you want to overclock the 2700X, sure.

Is it not true that the 2700 can reach similar speeds to the 2700X?

[Zando_]

2 hours ago, WhispTV said:

I've heard X470 is the way to go. 

I've ran my R7 2700X off a B450 mobo (ASUS' B450-F), only upgraded to an X470 board for SLI support. You'll be fine on B450 so long as you get a board with decent VRMs. 

[nick name]

5 hours ago, WhispTV said:

I am looking for a good motherboard for sub $200 more preferably $150. I see alot about vrm's and that alot of the X470 don't have great vrm's to help utilize the 2700 to its max potential. Which mobo should I look for. The ASUS prime was my original one I was looking at. 

I started my build with a X470 Prime Pro and it is a very capable overclocker.  You will want to make sure you have good air flow over your VRMs when you are overclocking, however.  Those bad boys can get hot.  

[WhispTV]

7 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

I've ran my R7 2700X off a B450 mobo (ASUS' B450-F), only upgraded to an X470 board for SLI support. You'll be fine on B450 so long as you get a board with decent VRMs. 

Which would be? Not sure what good vrm's vs not good vrm's are. 

[Zando_]

49 minutes ago, WhispTV said:

Which would be? Not sure what good vrm's vs not good vrm's are. 

The MSI B450(and B350 for 1st gen Ryzens) are well regarded midrange boards, I have a STRIX B450-F which is also pretty good, but not remarkably so and it's about $30 more. Depends on your budget, in the $200 price range you can get the ASRock Tiachi, which IIRC has the same obscenely overkill VRMs the Tiachi Ultimate has, just lacks 10gb ethernet and such (I have an ASUS Crosshair VII Hero, which has incredibly overkill VRMs, the Tiachi even more so, you shouldn't have a worry in the world about not feeding enough power to your CPU).

[WhispTV]

6 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

The MSI B450(and B350 for 1st gen Ryzens) are well regarded midrange boards, I have a STRIX B450-F which is also pretty good, but not remarkably so and it's about $30 more. Depends on your budget, in the $200 price range you can get the ASRock Tiachi, which IIRC has the same obscenely overkill VRMs the Tiachi Ultimate has, just lacks 10gb ethernet and such (I have an ASUS Crosshair VII Hero, which has incredibly overkill VRMs, the Tiachi even more so, you shouldn't have a worry in the world about not feeding enough power to your CPU).

I was looking to spend $150ish or less. 

[ybriK]

Any AM4 motherboard that has listed it supports the 2700 can run it. Overclocking is another department to look for. You shouldn't really be worried about VRMs unless you're overclocking or for some reason have extreme poor airflow in your case.

 

 

 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, WhispTV said:

I was looking to spend $150ish or less. 

I'd look at reviews for the MSI Gaming Pro and Gaming Pro Carbon AC, and the ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4, they're all X470 boards in that price range.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, ybriK said:

Any AM4 motherboard that has listed it supports the 2700 can run it. Overclocking is another department to look for. You shouldn't really be worried about VRMs unless you're overclocking or for some reason have extreme poor airflow in your case.

 

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So from this, looks like the best board under $150 would be the MSI Gaming Pro Carbon AC: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/t797YJ/msi-b450-gaming-pro-carbon-ac-atx-am4-motherboard-b450-gaming-pro-carbon-ac