[SOLVED] X570 Overclocking question.

[acer2dn]

I'm currently looking for a X570 board to do some overclocking with the Ryzen 9 3900X. Within the $300 limit?
Beefy board, beefy VRMs?

 

[Isokolon]

basically anything Aorus or Asus in that price range. The Aorus Master / Strix-F if you want it fancy, the X570 Pro / Aorus Pro if you don't. VRMs are the same IIRC.

but the 3900X doesn't really overclock that much, you usually get better performance with PBO on Auto

 

[GarrettL]

Overclocking Ryzen’s usually provides no benefit over using PBO.

Look at reviews.

 

[drea.drechsler]

I'm currently looking for a X570 board to do some overclocking with the Ryzen 9 3900X. Within the $300 limit?
Beefy board, beefy VRMs?

Overclocking in the traditional sense is not going to get you much unless you don't mind watching your CPU fade away. Most experienced overclockers who've been doing it since launch are now strongly advising not to go over 1.2V fixed VCore which severely limits the clock speed.

Instead you overclock memory and infinity fabric while finding a PBO setting to unleash your processor in both light and heavy threaded processing loads. There are quite a few B450 boards that can do that even with a 3900X for well under $150. But if you can wait a bit the X570 Tomahawk will be launching at the $200 price range that looks like monster.

 

[drivinfast247]

Avoid Gigabyte Aorus Master. Pick up a MSI Unify or the new x570 Tomahawk.

 

[abvolt]

I agree msi over gigabyte, I was considering the master but looking at many forums people are having far too many issues on that board. I've found that msi is one of the most stable boards I've owned in the past 20 years I've owned most makers also..good luck