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Should I get a new motherboard?

Oct 1, 2018
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So I got a Ryzen 7 2700x for Xmas and was wondering if I should switch to an x370 or x450/b450 because I do want to do some overclocking.
I previously had a Ryzen 5 1600x in my Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3, which is still the motherboard I currently use.
I tried to do some reading but I found some conflicting statements on whether or not the AB350 is okay for overclocking the 2700x so I'm pretty confused.

So if any of y'all would help me decide if I should and why I should, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Specs-
Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3
AMD Ryzen 7 2700x
Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 FE
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB 4 x 8GB 3600 DDR4
EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3 PSU
 
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There's a good chance you won't really get much extra performance from manual overclocking. With features like PBO2 and XFR2, the 2700X will do a pretty good job at automatically boosting its frequency for max performance. You could try running some benchmarks or stress tests to see what sort of turbo clocks you're getting.
There's a good chance you won't really get much extra performance from manual overclocking. With features like PBO2 and XFR2, the 2700X will do a pretty good job at automatically boosting its frequency for max performance. You could try running some benchmarks or stress tests to see what sort of turbo clocks you're getting.
 
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