[SOLVED] Troubles figuring out a good mATX board for Ryzen 3000

[Wendt9222]

I'm building a mATX build, the only X570 board available is the AsRock Pro 4, which is a little out of my budget range considering it costs ~$180. Which leaves me needing to update the BIOS (I don't have a previous Ryzen CPU). The only motherboard available in mATX that isn't bright vibrant red and has a BIOS flash button is the MSI Bazooka V2. However I have heard meh reviews about the VRMS on this board. Would this board be able to handle a 3700X with PBO?

Note: The case I plan on getting is the 280X, for CPU cooling I'll be using an H100i Platinum RGB. So the two intake fans in the front and the fans on the radiator exhausting.

 

[Eximo]

I suppose, what would that be a 4+2 with a lot of parallelism on the +2?

It at least has a heatsink, plenty of boards that can't make that claim.

Are you aiming for high overclocks, or just reasonable ones? From everything posted so far the CPU's will stay above 4.2Ghz as long as you keep them cool. Power requirements at 1.35 volts shouldn't be too extreme for that board I would think. 3700X is the low power one, and I think I saw on one chart that it more or less hits its power target of 65W if you leave it alone.

 

[drea.drechsler]

I'm building a mATX build, the only X570 board available is the AsRock Pro 4, which is a little out of my budget range considering it costs ~$180. Which leaves me needing to update the BIOS (I don't have a previous Ryzen CPU). The only motherboard available in mATX that isn't bright vibrant red and has a BIOS flash button is the MSI Bazooka V2. However I have heard meh reviews about the VRMS on this board. Would this board be able to handle a 3700X with PBO?

Note: The case I plan on getting is the 280X, for CPU cooling I'll be using an H100i Platinum RGB. So the two intake fans in the front and the fans on the radiator exhausting.

There's also a few miniITX X570 boards but they are probably even pricier.

There are few decent mATX... Asrock B450m Pro 4, Asus B450m TUF Gaming Pro, MSI B450M Mortar/Titanium, B450M Bazooka Plus, B450M Gaming Plus would do pretty well up to 8 Core and maybe 12 core. Bazooka Plus and Mortar's aren't available in USA, except as a retail import, so far as I can tell though.

Reviews showing Ry3K really is less power hungry than Ry2k was, as promised. So I have to believe a board that's handling a 2700X will have little trouble with a 3700X.

 

[Eximo]

He is limited by the need to flash the bios without a CPU. Nothing your local PC shop can't do though, so I don't consider that a huge barrier to entry.