X370 Boards

Eric1987

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Which is a good x370 board for Ryzen right now? I see a lot have bugs. I see this one coming out soon https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813144017

Is that one any good? Should I get the Asrock for 30 bucks cheaper? Worried about bugs I wanna buy one in the next day or 2. I plan to get some 3200-3400MHz RAM, too. What is up with people recommending CL15 RAM? And I want to get the 1700 and OC it to 3.9GHz.
 
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unseenmorbidity

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Without reviews it is hard to say. You can only tell so much by images and anecdotal stories at this point.

The most stable right now, then my guesis the Gigabyte G5. Worst pick would be Asus Crosshair probably.

Perf/$ then probably asrock x370 k4 or Killer.

Best performing board after updates. Maybe Asrock Taichi, Asrock Professional Gaming, Asus Crosshair

Avoid Biostar imo.


That board looks about average for x370 I guess. Then again, it's the only one I know of that you can order. The others are backordered for 2 weeks or not available at all.



Here is a list of most of the boards

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alexruiz

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Without reviews it is hard to say. You can only tell so much by images and anecdotal stories at this point.

The most stable right now, then my guesis the Gigabyte G5. Worst pick would be Asus Crosshair probably.

Perf/$ then probably asrock x370 k4 or Killer.

Best performing board after updates. Maybe Asrock Taichi, Asrock Professional Gaming, Asus Crosshair

Avoid Biostar imo.


That board looks about average for x370 I guess. Then again, it's the only one I know of that you can order. The others are backordered for 2 weeks or not available at all.



Here is a list of most of the boards

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Mainboard-Hardware-154107/Specials/Ryzen-Sockel-AM4-1221923/&edit-text=

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Biostar on AMD has been very good performer.
I have built with practically every 970 chipset board, and the TA970 was one of the top performers.

I am in fact wanting to try either the Biostar X370GT5 or the B350GT5... out of stock unfortunately
 

Eric1987

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I am probably gonna get that MSI board. And do you know anything about the RAM issues?
 

VirtualLarry

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I've been using a bunch of Biostar boards lately, for Intel socket 1150 and 1151. No issues to report that are negative, that I can see. Basic, utilitarian, boards.
 

TemjinGold

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Ahh makes sense. I hope that means my B350 can someday do 3200 then since that's the ram I have.
 

Puffnstuff

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Which is a good x370 board for Ryzen right now? I see a lot have bugs. I see this one coming out soon https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813144017

Is that one any good? Should I get the Asrock for 30 bucks cheaper? Worried about bugs I wanna buy one in the next day or 2. I plan to get some 3200-3400MHz RAM, too. What is up with people recommending CL15 RAM? And I want to get the 1700 and OC it to 3.9GHz.
From what I've noticed about the reviews the Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-GAMING 5 motherboard seems to be producing the best results right now. It makes me wonder if they've got a gaming 7 version of this chipset planned. FWIW their pcie slots are steel lined unlike Asus's which are a steel/plastic interweave and don't look to be as strong.
 

EXCellR8

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1700 arrived earlier so hopefully the MSI board ships this week... trying to pass a bit more time before ordering any memory.

i believe the MSI carbon has the lined slots as well
 

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I got an Asus prime b350 plus and it runs 3200 cl16 with the 503 BIOS. Turn on d.o.c.p and it configures it automatically, it set tras higher than the xmp profile indicated though. The ram I have isn't even on the compatibility page for the board. It was the cheapest 3200 ddr4 16gig kit on Newegg, geil GFR416GB3200C16DC.
 
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I am still trying to find a good mATX board, and so far options are very limited. I think B350 should be fine, but I am wondering which board would be best, OC options included? So far I have considered the Asus Prime B350M-A, the MSI B350 Mortar, and the Gigabyte AB350M. Only one currently available even is the Asus.
 

unseenmorbidity

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I've been using a bunch of Biostar boards lately, for Intel socket 1150 and 1151. No issues to report that are negative, that I can see. Basic, utilitarian, boards.
This board looks especially bad so at $150.

Despite the fact that people are desperate for boards, this thing has been in stock for two days.
 

alexruiz

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This board looks especially bad so at $150.

Despite the fact that people are desperate for boards, this thing has been in stock for two days.

The boards look solid, but the price doesn't. I will be using it in a build once it drops $10 or so.
Of the lesser brands, AsRock is packing more features for less money than Biostar.

The other brands are selling mainly on name recognition, even if the boards brick themselves...
 

unseenmorbidity

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The boards look solid, but the price doesn't. I will be using it in a build once it drops $10 or so.
Of the lesser brands, AsRock is packing more features for less money than Biostar.

The other brands are selling mainly on name recognition, even if the boards brick themselves...
Honestly, I would rather pick up a b350 board before I would buy than board.
 

unseenmorbidity

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I am curious, why?

It seems like a really cheap barebone board that simply had a x370 chipset tossed on as an afterthought, because they thought it would make it sell at a higher price. I highly suspect that this board will be a terrible overclocker because of it.

The CMOS battery is right beside the top Gpu slot, which can be a pain.
The mosfets on the top of the board don't have a heatsink.
There are 7 phases, but how many are actually going to the CPU? How good are they?
Multiple GPUs uses x16/x4 instead of x8/x8
Realtek ALC892 v/s Realtek ALC1220 that is on all the other x370 boards (aside from the Asrock Killer Sli/ac, but that has a wifi card and it's cheaper)
No shroud around the on board sound.
No wifi and no m.2 slot to put wifi
Bios is absolutely terrible according to comments.

Review from yesterday,
This board does support overclocking, but the bios isn't exactly user friendly. To OC your RAM beyond 2133 you need to boost the SoC voltage, this is over in the O.N.E tab of the setup. All voltage adjustments are by offset, check the starting voltage before you touch these. Then you need to set your timings in Advanced, AMD CBS, UMC Common Options. This is what threw me - all the timing values are Hexadecimal. If you can convert in your head, great, otherwise fire up calc.exe on another machine and switch to Programmer mode. All the multiplier and voltage values in the P-State settings are also Hex. The multiplier and divider seem to make sense if you do the math and convert, but the VID value doesn't seem to correspond to anything. Luckily it does show you the results in decimal just above - FF is 0V and it goes up as you reduce the value.

To OC the CPU, you need to go into the Custom P-States menu under AMD CBS, Zen options, and set P0 to custom. Then bump the hex value for the multiplier, at the default divider of 8 it will go in 25Mhz steps. Then REDUCE the value of VID to increase voltage to your desired value. Unfortunately adding more than 100Mhz this way seems to result in some very odd behavior. Once booted into Windows, it will use the VID from P0 but not the multiplier. It uses the multiplier from P1. If I set P0 AND P1 identically, it seems to result in a successful OC, but Windows will then never back down from full speed, it's like P2 doesn't exist. Also, in this state HWInfo64 reports the CPU running at 1.55V, while Ryzen Master shows the voltage I've actually set. Not sure which is correct in this case. Needless to say this is driving me a little nuts.

A previous review said the bios was practically barren. I assume they have done some bios updates since.


If this board was like $110, then sure, I could see there maybe being a market for it. But at it's current price point, not a chance. It's not worth $150! Asrock has better boards for less.
 
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