Question better Motherboard

[FD_NI]

Which one better. 2600X in AsRock X470 Master SLI or AsRock B450 Pro4

 

[richiestang_78]

The only real difference would be that the X470 board would have better VRMs which would help with overclocking. But if you dont plan on doing heavy overclocking then save the money and get a B450 board (unless its marginal then get the 470 anyway if it has all the features you want.

 

[FD_NI]

So X470 Better Than B450 in Overclocking, is'nt?

 

[CountMike]

So X470 Better Than B450 in Overclocking, is'nt?

Yes, mostly because X470 boards are more expensive with better VRMs. 2600x will OC same on either one, it's when you get to 8 cores that differences show.

 

[RCFProd]

So X470 Better Than B450 in Overclocking, is'nt?

Fully dependent on the VRM specs of each specific motherboard. There are plenty of well-specced B450 motherboards with decent VRM's for overclocking. ASRock isn't usually one of them though.

Give this guide a watch:

View: https://youtu.be/MMJoLyrWa7E

 

[drea.drechsler]

Which one better. 2600X in AsRock X470 Master SLI or AsRock B450 Pro4

The X470 Master SLI looks to have a pretty good VRM... 4 discrete phases with 4 very strong FET's on each phase.

http://koolshare.cn/thread-140760-1-1.html

https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/f12/pga-am4-mainboard-vrm-liste-1155146.html#post25344552

While the B450Pro4's isn't shabby the Master SLI seems to have it beat. But I would say neither are going to be extreme overclockers and in the end you may not see more than a 25-50Mhz advantage in final overclock, all else being equal.

But the Master SLI also has the usual X470 feature advantages: more SLI lanes meaning more super-speed USB ports and more concurrent PCIe slots that can be used and also allowing to SLI Nvidia GPU's. But perplexingly, although it has two M.2 sockets the second is crippled at PCIe gen 2 x 2. Don't know why they'd do that.

 

[ocer9999]

I believe the Master has Wifi, that might be a good feature.