[SOLVED] Suggestion for motherboard for Ryzen 5 3600

[Saptarshi Mondal]

Hello,
It's me again..
I decided to upgrade my current intel build to a ryzen one.. to do that I need a motherboard , a CPU and RAM only...
I already chose my CPU to be Ryzen 5 3600 and a 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 kit from G.Skill for the memory..

For the Motherboard, what I initially chose was Asrock B450M Pro4 as I noticed many positive review on it's stability (including from LinusTechTips) during Overclocking.

But the problem is, that model is currently unavailable (any where). So I decided to get the Gigabyte B450 AORUS M .. But I haven't came across any review on it about its overclocking performance and stability..

If anyone can share their thoughts and experiences on it, that would be great...

Thank you,
Saptarshi

 

[kerberos_20]

overclocking is trial and error

 

[Saptarshi Mondal]

overclocking is trial and error

I just want to hit 4.3 or 4.4 over it's turbo of 4.2... can that motherboard handle it?

 

[TJ Hooker]

Overclocking is generally very limited for Ryzen 3000 CPUs, regardless of motherboard.

What country are you in?

 

[Saptarshi Mondal]

Overclocking is generally very limited for Ryzen 3000 CPUs, regardless of motherboard.

What country are you in?

What do you mean??

hello from India 😀

 

[TJ Hooker]

What do you mean??

Read some reviews of the Ryzen 3600 (or Ryzen 3000 CPUs in general) and look at what there overclocking results are like. Most of time the all-core overclock they can achieve is less than or equal to the normal max boost clock of the CPU, even with high end X570 boards. So in most cases manual overclocking results in a little better multithreaded performance and a little worse single threaded performance. For gaming, it often makes little difference, and can actually hurt performance a tiny bit in some cases.

If you liked the ASRock Pro4 a similar option would be the ASRock Steel Legend. If you're buying the board in person look for a little "ready for ryzen 3000" sticker on it, otherwise you'll probably want to confirm with the retailer that the board comes with a BIOS recent enough to support Ryzen 3000.

 

[Saptarshi Mondal]

Read some reviews of the Ryzen 3600 (or Ryzen 3000 CPUs in general) and look at what there overclocking results are like. Most of time the all-core overclock they can achieve is less than or equal to the normal max boost clock of the CPU, even with high end X570 boards. So in most cases manual overclocking results in a little better multithreaded performance and a little worse single threaded performance. For gaming, it often makes little difference, and can actually hurt performance a tiny bit in some cases.

If you liked the ASRock Pro4 a similar option would be the ASRock Steel Legend. If you're buying the board in person look for a little "ready for ryzen 3000" sticker on it, otherwise you'll probably want to confirm with the retailer that the board comes with a BIOS recent enough to support Ryzen 3000.

So I have better chance of getting better performance by getting a 2600X and OC it than 3600?

 

[TJ Hooker]

No, the 3600 is better. You can't directly compare the clock speeds between Ryzen 2000 and 3000.

 

[kerberos_20]

nope

 

[Saptarshi Mondal]

nope

what?

 

[kerberos_20]

what?

3600 is everyway faster than 2700x

 

[ocer9999]

Overclocking is generally very limited for Ryzen 3000 CPUs, regardless of motherboard.

What country are you in?

True, so get the board that has quality and features that you looking for, Pro 4 is a decent motherboard and generally at good price.

 

[TJ Hooker]

True, so get the board that has quality and features that you looking for, Pro 4 is a decent motherboard and generally at good price.

Pro4 isn't available for them, as per the original post.

 

[Crosslhs82x2]

Would also advice matching ram to qvl for what mobo you decide.