[SOLVED] Motherboard for 2700X

[juustef]

Finally the time for me to buy a better CPU has come. I'm looking forward to buying the 2700X for my build, but with it, I'd need a new mb.

I'm stuck in between:
Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE (~90€ here) and the MSI B450 TOMAHAWK (~96€ here).
I know I don't have enough money for a good X470 board, so I need a good B450 one. Are those two any good or are there better ones?

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Do you have DDR4 ram already? DDR4 is needed.

[SOLVED] - MSI B450 tomahawk or GIGABYTE B450 AORUS ELITE

Hi, fist of sorry for my bad english. I'm building a computer and I can't desire which one I to chose. both seems a availability option for my computer which are, Amd ryzen 5 2600 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB AORUS. I am building a black and orange theme and should I chose Gigabyte B450...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[juustef]

Yeah of course, right now I'm sporting a 1500X and four 8GB sticks, I don't know if the GPU matters, but I've got a PNY (something) 1080

 

[NightHawkRMX]

If you already are using a 1500x, why do you need a new motherboard?

If you update your bios your existing board will support the 2700x

 

[juustef]

Hmm, well, I guess that would work.
Right now I have a A320M board (MSI Bazooka, to be exact), I don't know about MB's that well, so can't say much about the specs, vrm, or all sorts of such stuff, but a newer board would certainly do a better job. Also the newer one's I had been considering had more led, fan and sata connectors/support (also M.2), than my current one.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Yea an a320 board will work just fine, but I see why you would want to upgrade.
In the post linked above Darkbreeze says the Gigabyte has a better VRM. I would go for the gigabyte because of this, but either should work.

 

[juustef]

Oh, didn't even see the link earlier, but yeah, nice. I was leaning towards the Gigabyte one myself, thanks!