[SOLVED] Motherboard for Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 2070 super

[jennytrem]

Hello, I want to buy a new PC and am searching for a Motherboard. I already have a Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX2070 super Gaming X Trio.
I was thinking something like MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max or ASRock B450 Steel Legend or MSI B450 Tomahawk Max.

The thing is, I dont know how and dont really want to update my BIOS to run the 3rd gen Ryzen.
Do you guys have anything in mind what motherboards I can choose from?

Thank you everyone!

 

[Quanticriver]

i have this exact setup and i have gone with the tomahawk B450 max, and have never looked back

Also it supports the 3600 out of the box

 

[PC Tailor]

I dont know how and dont really want to update my BIOS to run the 3rd gen Ryzen.

The Tomahawk MAX does not require a BIOS update. That's what the MAX feature is about. Any MSI board with MAX on it is compatible out of the box.

Also the BIOS update is neither hard nor complicated, it's just a you should only do it if you need to as it CAN go wrong if you have a power cut for example.

Next to that you want B550 or X570.

Finally the latest B450 boards will generally be out of the box compatible ASSUMING they've not been sat on a storage shelf for months as the newly manufactured ones will come with a later BIOS. But you'd have to ask the seller.

 

[drea.drechsler]

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Finally the latest B450 boards will generally be out of the box compatible ASSUMING they've not been sat on a storage shelf for months as the newly manufactured ones will come with a later BIOS. But you'd have to ask the seller.

Yeah, it's that 'new-old stock' that you have to watch out for.

The Gaming Plus MAX, being one of MSI's MAX boards, is also guaranteed to be out-of-box ready. Any of those boards will run sweet with a 3600X, but the Tomahawk's is a great choice if you'd ever want to push on up to even a 3950X. What it pretty much comes down to is what features may be important to you.

With Zen 3 coming soon you might wonder if any of these have a future there. I'd have to think 'yes they do' but how much depends on what the new arch will run like.

 

[ocer9999]

Right now you have the B550 M Pro4 at 95$, it's a crazy good price for such motherboard, there's no excuse not to get a B550, some of the models you mention are actually more expensive than this and not better.

 

[jennytrem]

Thank you so much guys! I decided on the Tomahawk Max and will get it from the store this week, you really helped me!
This is my first PC I'm building myself as I previously had a ready bought PC on which I simply replaced or switched a few parts. I'm soo excited!

 

[drea.drechsler]

Right now you have the B550 M Pro4 at 95$, it's a crazy good price for such motherboard, there's no excuse not to get a B550, some of the models you mention are actually more expensive than this and not better.

Not really true...

The Pro 4's VRM doesn't run as cool as the B450 Tomahawk (check HWUnboxed VRM thermal testing ) in particular. It's also not sharing the up-tick in features most B550 boards get: it has 1Gb ethernet while (most) B550's are getting 2.5Gb. So that $95 price really getting is a B450 board with a B550 chipset.

That said, the VRM isn't horrible and quite good enough for a 3600 so it's not a bad deal, just put it in perspective.

It's also an mATX board, not full ATX.