AM4 Motherboard Suggestions

Durvelle27 · Aug 8, 2017

Hey fellow TPUers,

Might be a little conufusing but I'm trying to figure out what would be a good AM4 motherboard. Yes I currently have a MSI B350M Gaming Pro but now I want to SLI my 1080Ti but my current board only has one full PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. I'm really keen to ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI boards. Doesn't matter if B350 or X370 as both chipsets offer Overclocking. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated from fellow Ryzen owners.

Little skeptical of ASUS AM4 as I heard the BIOs hasn't been that great

Totally · Aug 8, 2017

They were horrid at first, don't get me wrong don't mean they were outright bad but when looking at the other AM4 boards they were clearly lacking a certain level of polish, but since have come quite a way. I'm not finding myself constantly complaining about anything anymore and instead just little things I nitpick about.

Final_Fighter · Aug 8, 2017

asrock did an extremely good job with their am4 boards. heres one on sale

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...57774&cm_re=asrock_am4-_-13-157-774-_-Product

its x370 but has plenty of room between the pcie slots so your sli setup can breath. b350 was always meant for mainstream non enthusiast use. x370 is more of what yoy are looking at with the setup you want. b350 was only supposed to be used with 1 graphics card tho it can run 2.

Loosenut · Aug 8, 2017

Durvelle27 said:
Hey fellow TPUers,

Might be a little conufusing but I'm trying to figure out what would be a good AM4 motherboard. Yes I currently have a MSI B350M Gaming Pro but now I want to SLI my 1080Ti but my current board only has one full PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. I'm really keen to ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI boards. Doesn't matter if B350 or X370 as both chipsets offer Overclocking. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated from fellow Ryzen owners.

Little skeptical of ASUS AM4 as I heard the BIOs hasn't been that great

If you want to SLI, no choice but to go with X370. B350 chipset only supports AMD X-Fire.

I would consider the Asrock's X370 Taichi, you should read Dave's review

the54thvoid · Aug 8, 2017

^^ What they said. The Taichi seems to be the better of the early released boards. Though to be fair, the 1403 (most recent BIOS) for the Asus Crosshair 6 has proven stable now on the memory front. It's still not as 'easy' as a plug and play to run at the memory's tested settings but you just need to run through the DOCP (XMP) profiles. I'm stable now at 3.822Ghz clock on all 8 cores (1700X) and memory sitting nicely at 3200, 14 timings. Air cooled as well on CPU so it's not bad at all.

Durvelle27 · Aug 8, 2017

Loosenut said:
If you want to SLI, no choice but to go with X370. B350 chipset only supports AMD X-Fire.

I would consider the Asrock's X370 Taichi, you should read Dave's review

That's one sexy board for sure but that price tag

Durvelle27 · Aug 9, 2017

Anyone have experience with the ASRock X370 Killer, Gaming K4 or Gaming X

Final_Fighter · Aug 9, 2017

my brother owns the asrock x370 killer/sli and it works marvelously.

edit: the gaming k4 is essentially the same board, just a different audio chip and lan. both are moot points in my opinion as the onses on the killer sli are already really good.

cdawall · Aug 9, 2017

Crosshair

Durvelle27 · Aug 9, 2017

cdawall said:
Crosshair

Too expensive honestly as the features will go to waste and the extra Overclocking features won't really do much since mine tops out at 4GHz

Final_Fighter · Aug 9, 2017

the asrock gaming k4 will meet your needs or the killer/sli

cdawall · Aug 9, 2017

Durvelle27 said:
Too expensive honestly as the features will go to waste and the extra Overclocking features won't really do much since mine tops out at 4GHz

In that case just grabs msi sli plus. I have done a couple builds with it at the shop zero issues.

phanbuey · Aug 9, 2017

i like my asus - had a gb before... the asus has a scheduler/performance bias function that really adds performance to the chip pretty much across the board.

Also in FarCry 4 i get WAY higher framerates and less stuttering with it on.... (usually get 10.4-10.5 with superpi but had a bunch of stuff open).

only issues is the voltage control is iffy depending on what your chip wants, and also there is no bank group swap setting (all the others are there in the 0805 bios).

Durvelle27 · Aug 9, 2017

cdawall said:
In that case just grabs msi sli plus. I have done a couple builds with it at the shop zero issues.

Man so many options under $150 that look decent

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out

phanbuey said:
i like my asus - had a gb before... the asus has a scheduler/performance bias function that really adds performance to the chip pretty much across the board.

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Also in FarCry 4 i get WAY higher framerates and less stuttering with it on.... (usually get 10.4-10.5 with superpi but had a bunch of stuff open).

only issues is the voltage control is iffy depending on what your chip wants, and also there is no bank group swap setting (all the others are there in the 0805 bios).

What's the exact model

phanbuey · Aug 9, 2017

Durvelle27 said:
Man so many options under $150 that look decent

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out

What's the exact model

Asus prime X370-PRO but all the asus boards have the setting, i have a B350 that does the same and Crosshair VI does it as well

Recca29 · Aug 9, 2017

Just bought a ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING. it's costly than most B350 boards, but i think it has the same VRM as the Asus prime X370-PRO and looks good in all black.

phanbuey · Aug 9, 2017

Recca29 said:
Just bought a ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING. it's costly than most B350 boards, but i think it has the same VRM as the Asus prime X370-PRO and looks good in all black.

try out the performance bias setting... it's gold

Recca29 · Aug 9, 2017

phanbuey said:
try out the performance bias setting... it's gold

Will do as soon as the processor arrives.

Durvelle27 · Aug 9, 2017

phanbuey said:
Asus prime X370-PRO but all the asus boards have the setting, i have a B350 that does the same and Crosshair VI does it as well

Man you guys got me torn between the Prime X370-Pro, ASRock, and MSI Pro

Durvelle27 · Aug 9, 2017

So I ended up deciding to get the MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon

Hopefully it fairs well

blacktruckryder · Aug 20, 2017

My x370 Pro Carbon has been great so far. I've had it a couple months. The first few BIOS revisions were crap but they've ironed out a lot of the issues.

SliceT · Aug 27, 2017

Final_Fighter said:
the asrock gaming k4 will meet your needs or the killer/sli

I wonder about the extreme series, they used to be pretty good as well..

Durvelle27 · Aug 27, 2017

blacktruckryder said:
My x370 Pro Carbon has been great so far. I've had it a couple months. The first few BIOS revisions were crap but they've ironed out a lot of the issues.

That's great to hear

Dave_K · Sep 2, 2017

Recca29 said:
Just bought a ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING. it's costly than most B350 boards, but i think it has the same VRM as the Asus prime X370-PRO and looks good in all black.

It does not

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