[SOLVED] What motherboard to choose for the new R7 3700X

[WarMar]

Hi!
I'm looking for a 150-160$ range X470 motherboard for the new R7 3700X.

First I decided to go with the ASUS Prime Pro until I saw the Gamers Nexus Ryzen MOBO guide video where they told that the ASUS Prime Pro had terrible VRM cooling.
Video link:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuyuS04lD4o&t=465s



Now I'm confused and don't know what would be the best choice for me...

 

[drea.drechsler]

Hi!
I'm looking for a 150-160$ range X470 motherboard for the new R7 3700X.

First I decided to go with the ASUS Prime Pro until I saw the Gamers Nexus Ryzen MOBO guide video where they told that the ASUS Prime Pro had terrible VRM cooling....
Now I'm confused and don't know what would be the best choice for me...

First.... you need to know something about who's giving that video review. BuildZoid's an extreme overclocker so anything that's not got enough heatsink (and VRM) to hold a 3900X at 5G is not going to interest him. He's just as likely to call it "crap" as he is to say "good enough for a 3700x at stock clocks with PBO". Which is probably synonymous to him anyway.

All his vid's take a lot of parsing, even the ones for Steve at GN.

Next... which Prime Pro? there's an X570, X470 and X370 Prime Pro either which will run a 3700X.

 

[alceryes]

First.... you need to know something about who's giving that video review. BuildZoid's an extreme overclocker so anything that's not got enough heatsink (and VRM) to hold a 3900X at 5G is not going to interest him. He's just as likely to call it "crap" as he is to say "good enough for a 3700x at stock clocks with PBO". Which is probably synonymous to him anyway.

All his vid's take a lot of parsing, even the ones for Steve at GN.

Next... which Prime Pro? there's an X570, X470 and X370 Prime Pro either which will run a 3700X.

^THIS
BuildZoid would call my motherboard 'crap' in a heartbeat but it works perfectly well for me and I consider myself a gamer, benchmarker, and overclocker. I'm just not an EXTREME one. 😉

 

[WarMar]

First.... you need to know something about who's giving that video review. BuildZoid's an extreme overclocker so anything that's not got enough heatsink (and VRM) to hold a 3900X at 5G is not going to interest him. He's just as likely to call it "crap" as he is to say "good enough for a 3700x at stock clocks with PBO". Which is probably synonymous to him anyway.

All his vid's take a lot of parsing, even the ones for Steve at GN.

Next... which Prime Pro? there's an X570, X470 and X370 Prime Pro either which will run a 3700X.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, but ofcourse I meant the X470 Prime Pro.
So the X470 Prime Pro will run the R7 3700x just fine at stock.
I'd like to know will it be the best choice for me or there may be a better one?

 

[spacejunk]

Speaking for myself, I probably wouldn't go with a board with a weaker VRM when there are other boards with better VRM's at the same price-point. Even if you don't plan to OC at all, it's always nice to have the option open for the future. And if this doesn't come at a premium, I don't see why you wouldn't want the extra functionality.

 

[drea.drechsler]

Sorry for the misunderstanding, but ofcourse I meant the X470 Prime Pro.
So the X470 Prime Pro will run the R7 3700x just fine at stock.
I'd like to know will it be the best choice for me or there may be a better one?

As far as power delivery goes, that X470 you're looking at should do quite well with a 3700X. You can also get really high memory clocks with it since Asus always had pretty good memory performance any way... Ry3k just adds the extra ingredient with it's significantly improved memory controller.

The only real advantage of X570 boards is they have (mostly) beefy VRM's but they really don't come into play until you try to overclock a 12 core... and certainly a 16 core when they come available.

The other advantage isn't showing to be all that significant, namely PCIe Gen4. That's because the few gen4 NVME drives you can get, while showing terrific serial read performance in synthetic benchmarks, don't really show similar realized performance in use. That's because most people rarely use drives for super-long serial read activity and gen3 NVME's had already made those so insignificantly short it's hard to appreciate the difference in use.

But these are the first iterations of Gen4 drives too. We don't really know what might come next as other mfr's come out with their products. That assumes they do as, AMD being the only gen 4 game in town right now, they may not see the market for it.