[SOLVED] Best of the two Mobos?

Hi all,

Looking for a motherboard for my R5 1600, I will be overclocking.

For the same price, I can get these two:
- B350 Gaming Pro Carbon
- B450 Aorus M

Or perhaps an MSI B450-A or a B450 Pro4 for cheaper options?

What do you guys think?
 
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It's not really the chipset (B450) that allows better overclocking the later motherboards, it's the VRM designs. In particular (in that lineup) Asrock B450 Pro4, with a truely solid VRM, is a good choice since it is lower cost. Otherwise I'd go with the B350 Pro Carbon.

And another thing in favor of the Asrock...but I totally wouldn't base a buy decision on this alone. Ryzen 3000 chips will support PCIe gen 4. While none of these boards, predating Ryzen 3000, are marketed and spec'ed to support PCIE gen 4, if the device is within 6 inches of the CPU (which provides the lanes) it MIGHT still work. The only device that would make that worth it is the NVME and...



It's not really the chipset (B450) that allows better overclocking the later motherboards, it's the VRM designs. In particular (in that lineup) Asrock B450 Pro4, with a truely solid VRM, is a good choice since it is lower cost. Otherwise I'd go with the B350 Pro Carbon.

And another thing in favor of the Asrock...but I totally wouldn't base a buy decision on this alone. Ryzen 3000 chips will support PCIe gen 4. While none of these boards, predating Ryzen 3000, are marketed and spec'ed to support PCIE gen 4, if the device is within 6 inches of the CPU (which provides the lanes) it MIGHT still work. The only device that would make that worth it is the NVME and in the Pro4 board the NVME is very close...the M.2 socket is probably within 3 inches actually. It would be a real boon to pop in a Ryzen 3000 CPU and Gen 4 NVME in a couple years and get current with latest tech, just that easy.

But, like I said, I wouldn't base the buy decision on that alone since it's total speculation so far.
 
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