B350 or b450

[victor.vandevyvere]

Hello, This is my situation: i am planning building my first budget gaming pc around mid july with the ryzen 3 2200g and play on the integrated graphics until i have enough to buy a gtx 1060 3gb but here are my question: i have a friend with an amd ryzen 1300x who could update the bios of a b350 motherboard but i know the b450 motherboards will soon be released.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

The b450 should have better memory compatibility than the b350. So if you have really high speed RAM (3200mhz or higher) it may be worth it to go for the b450, but other than the bios update, there is not much of a difference in the chipsets.

 

[zyh1987]

b450 may have better power delivery, memory compatibility. feature wise, i think they are very similar.

it comes down to price, if the b350 went on sale when b450 came out, then i would say get a good quality b350 board.

 

[WildCard999]

Well since your building the system in mid July then there's really no reason to buy anything now, wait and see what's available when you buy and decide from there. By then the B450 could be out and price may be similar.

Ask this question again in about a week prior to ordering parts.

 

[victor.vandevyvere]

I would use it with 8gb of dual chanel 2666 ddr4 ram of g skill v series

 

[feelinfroggy777]

I would use it with 8gb of dual chanel 2666 ddr4 ram of g skill v series

For 2666mhz either chipset will do just fine. I would go with whichever is cheaper.

 

[rcald2000]

victor.vandevyvere NewEgg's first B450 chipset listing is now online:

ASRock B450M-HDV AM4 AMD Promontory
$69.99
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157842

 

[drea.drechsler]

I would use it with 8gb of dual chanel 2666 ddr4 ram of g skill v series

For 2666mhz either chipset will do just fine. I would go with whichever is cheaper.

Since I understand that memory management is entirely handled by the CPU, and all interfaces are between memory and the CPU with Ryzen, I'm curious to know why chipset would affect compatibility. Maybe compatibility improvements in BIOS but I'd hope improvements here to also be reflected in B350 board BIOS updates.

I expect B350=>B450 to be very similar to how B370=>B470 goes: the only thing the chipset seems absolutely necessary for is to allow R2xxx CPU's to achieve Zen+ higher boost state / Precision Boost 2. But it will be nice if mobo makers step up their VRM game with B450 boards. Maybe we'll see some true 6 phase boards, or more/healthier heatsinking on the FETs, something sorely lacking in B350 almost universally.