[SOLVED] Motherboards for ryzen 3300x

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Does anyone know any motherboards that are under £100 that are compatable with the new Ryzen 3300x

This is a new build so I can’t have an old generation cpu so this is making it hard for me to find a motherboard that has to be updated with the 3300x in it
 
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The CPU support page shows support for all CPUs on the same BIOS version. Regardless though, this motherboard has BIOS flashback, so no CPU is even needed to flash the BIOS to the latest version if for any reason it should not already have BIOS support and it literally takes five minutes to flash the BIOS using the BIOS flashback button on the back of the motherboard. It's a non-issue. This is also probably the only sub-100 dollar motherboard with BIOS flashback.

Being honest though, if you can afford to throw in another twenty bucks, the B450 Tomahawk or B450 Tomahawk Max are MUCH better choices, with significantly better VRM/Power delivery configurations than the Gaming Plus. If you decide to upgrade to a higher tiered CPU later with the Gaming Plus, you might run into throttling issues. With either of the Tomahawk boards, you could run any CPU all the way up to the 3950x without any trouble at all.
 
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Darkbreeze said:
Being honest though, if you can afford to throw in another twenty bucks, the B450 Tomahawk or B450 Tomahawk Max are MUCH better choices, with significantly better VRM/Power delivery configurations than the Gaming Plus. If you decide to upgrade to a higher tiered CPU later with the Gaming Plus, you might run into throttling issues. With either of the Tomahawk boards, you could run any CPU all the way up to the 3950x without any trouble at all.
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The Gaming Plus (Max) has the same 4 phase (2x 4C029N Hi Side 2x 4C024N Lo Side per phase) VRM configuration as the Tomahawk. Albeit with different heatsinks. Either should handle a stock 3900/3950x without issue. Many of the MSI b450 and x470 motherboards use the same VRM design as the Tomahawk.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d9_E3h8bLp-TXr-0zTJFqqVxdCR9daIVNyMatydkpFA/htmlview#

An x570 will support the Zen 3 (Ryzen 4000) CPU's launching later this year while the MSI will b450 will not. Unless AMD changes it's position. This is an expensive tier of motherboard and probably not worth considering for the 3300x.
 
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That spreadsheet you linked to specifically states "not recommended" in the column for the 3950x, while the Tomahawk max states "major airflow recommended". Clearly there must be some other differences and it seems odd that the majority of reviewers, like Steve over at GamersNexus hasn't been recommending the Gaming Plus Max if it's as capable as the Tomahawk/Max, in the same way they've gushed over those boards, since it's cheaper.

I do see it lists the same VRM configuration AND the same VRM components, but there has to be something other than just the smaller heatsink to account for the disparity between these boards, unless I'm off my mark somewhere.

Either way though, any of these are more than good enough for the 3600 or 3600x to maintain full profile boost behavior with adequate cooling.
 
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That spreadsheet you linked to specifically states "not recommended" in the column for the 3950x, while the Tomahawk max states "major airflow recommended". Clearly there must be some other differences and it seems odd that the majority of reviewers, like Steve over at GamersNexus hasn't been recommending the Gaming Plus Max if it's as capable as the Tomahawk/Max, in the same way they've gushed over those boards, since it's cheaper.

I do see it lists the same VRM configuration AND the same VRM components, but there has to be something other than just the smaller heatsink to account for the disparity between these boards, unless I'm off my mark somewhere.

Either way though, any of these are more than good enough for the 3600 or 3600x to maintain full profile boost behavior with adequate cooling.
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The major airflow vs not recommended disparity is in the OC column for the 3950x. Both get green checks for 3900/3950x stock operation. To my knowledge this spreadsheet is NOT based on actual thermal data. I believe the recommendations are based purely on objective analysis of VRM components and subjective analysis of the heat sinks. Given that these CPU's can't really be cooled (on ambient) while drawing over 150 amps, and overclocking on these CPU's is pretty niche, its probably a distinction without a difference. I find the component data on the spreadsheet much more useful than the recommendations personally.

I think the disparity in recommendations for the Tomahawk vs the other MSI boards (with the same VRM) has more to do with this board getting sent out for review more often than the others. I do think the larger heat sinks probably do give it a bit of a thermal advantage regardless.
 
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Makes sense. Will add it to the list. For ten bucks more, the Tomahawk with bigger heatsinks might be preferable anyhow in most cases, but in practically all other regards aside from very minor USB considerations there doesn't seem to be any difference at all between these boards when it comes to equipment and features. Surprised I hadn't heard this board recommended more often previously and even though I've been recommending it on price, seems a good offering simply due to the comparability to the Tomahawk which we know is a good all around board.
 
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