[SOLVED] Difference between these two boards

[Zihad]

MSI B450M Mortar Max VS ASRock B450M Steel Legend

Hello Tom's Hardware,

In my country Bangladesh has two board which are in same price range. I want to know which motherboard is overall best between from these motherboards with Rygen 5 3400G without GPU. Which one is best overall and which one can give me best gaming, editing, and overall full pc perfomance and overclocking

 

[Lutfij]

Nice to meet a fellow countrymen. I've worked with both, IMHO, I'd settle with the ASRock board since it allows you to take advantage of the two M.2 slots. The MSI variant, has a limiter on what SSD's you can use on their M.2 slots - read, NVMe/SATA and their speeds.

Also, please keep in mind that a system isn't just a board and an APU/processor, it's got other parts in it as well. What does the rest of your build look like?

 

[drea.drechsler]

MSI B450M Mortar Max VS ASRock B450M Steel Legend

Hello Tom's Hardware,

In my country Bangladesh has two board which are in same price range. I want to know which motherboard is overall best between from these motherboards with Rygen 5 3400G without GPU. Which one is best overall and which one can give me best gaming, editing, and overall full pc perfomance and overclocking

The Mortar Max has a much superior VCore VRM. Not that it will matter that much for a 3400G but if ever you wish to upgrade to more power hungry processors with a discrete GPU's it will make a difference.

The SoC VRM's FET's for the Steel Legend's are under a pretty large heatsink while the Mortar's are bare though. That can be important as the SOC VRM powers the iGPU in the 3400G. You don't want to overclock the CPU since gains are non-existent. But you do want to try to overclock the iGPU (and memory) as that helps a lot with gaming performance.

I prefer the MSI BIOS to Asrock's, but if you get used to it I don't suppose it will matter.

The 2nd M.2 socket on the Mortar Max supports an NVME SSD
1 x M.2 slots (M2_2, Key M)

• supports PCIe 2.0 x4 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices

while the 2nd M.2 on the Steel legend only supports SATA SSD's....
- 1 x M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module

Even at PCIe 2.0 bandwidth an x4 NVME interface is much faster than SATA.

The 1st M.2 for both boards supports PCIe gen 3 x 4 NVME's, which is what you'd want there for maximum performance potential.

 

[Zihad]

Nice to meet a fellow countrymen. I've worked with both, IMHO, I'd settle with the ASRock board since it allows you to take advantage of the two M.2 slots. The MSI variant, has a limiter on what SSD's you can use on their M.2 slots - read, NVMe/SATA and their speeds.

Also, please keep in mind that a system isn't just a board and an APU/processor, it's got other parts in it as well. What does the rest of your build look like?

brother, i have understand but my build is looks like this

MB : Asrock B450M Steel Legend or MSI B450M Mortar Max
CPU: Rygen 5 3400G
CPU Cooler : DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX400 CPU Air Cooler
Ram : Gskill Trident Z Neon RGB 3200mhz 2x 8GB
Storage : Samasung 860 Evo 1TB SATA SSD
PSU : Corsair CX550
Casing : Darkflash Aigo DLM23 ARGB

And here i get a problem that MSI Mortar max doesn't have 3 pin argb header to connect my casing's rgb lighting, bow tell me that which is better from Asrock B450M Steel Legend or MSI B450M Mortar Max ?? I know MSI is a bit much better but you tell me that if i take msi then how do i connect my 3 pin argb from casing to my motherboard??

 

[Zihad]

The Mortar Max has a much superior VCore VRM. Not that it will matter that much for a 3400G but if ever you wish to upgrade to more power hungry processors with a discrete GPU's it will make a difference.

The SoC VRM's FET's for the Steel Legend's are under a pretty large heatsink while the Mortar's are bare though. That can be important as the SOC VRM powers the iGPU in the 3400G. You don't want to overclock the CPU since gains are non-existent. But you do want to try to overclock the iGPU (and memory) as that helps a lot with gaming performance.

I prefer the MSI BIOS to Asrock's, but if you get used to it I don't suppose it will matter.

The 2nd M.2 socket on the Mortar Max supports an NVME SSD
1 x M.2 slots (M2_2, Key M)

• supports PCIe 2.0 x4 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices

while the 2nd M.2 on the Steel legend only supports SATA SSD's....
- 1 x M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module

Even at PCIe 2.0 bandwidth an x4 NVME interface is much faster than SATA.

The 1st M.2 for both boards supports PCIe gen 3 x 4 NVME's, which is what you'd want there for maximum performance potential.

Hmm, okay thanks but how do i connect my casing's 3pin argb to my motherboard's 4 pin rgb ?? if i took msi but there is no 3pin connector...