I currently have a Gigabyte Aorus Elite X570 and Ryzen 3600 As I am on a very tight budget, after extensive reading around and watching knowledgeable videos, I decided to swap my X570 for the MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon Max WiFi. I honestly can't see I am losing anything relevant to ME and it's saving me a few bucks. (like £55, which I could put towards something else) However I always find it's best to ask on here and get a few opinions. I have a very modest PC Ryzen 3600 GTX 1060 16gb Corsair 3000Mhz (15CL) Pretty basic WD NVMe M.2 I mostly play ESO and Battlefield - Well I MOSTLY play on my Xbox lol but I wanted to give my PC a kick as I do still play games on it, for example, a LOT of ESO (and that's horrible on Xbox, I know, I TRIED IT) I'll still get the benefit of better 1% lows I think and that 36mb L2 cache etc ? ESO is running smoother than ever at the minute and I feel I will still get the exact same experience with the B450 (from reading around) Basically, I started to feel the X570 was an 'extravagance' and one which I didn't care for at the current X570 prices. Cheers.
Well that's interesting. Right now I would honestly take a B550 over an X570, but going down to B450? They are probably some of the most solid mainboards in the PC hardware market to come along for a long time in my opinion, but downgrading I don't know about that.
I appreciate the reply, what the B450 or 550 ? Also, what would I be downgrading ? What would I lose ? Cheers. If it makes any difference I came from a £50 Gigabyte Motherboard with Intel 8100 @3.6 - locked - just FYI don't let that influence your thoughts on what I would be LOSING going from the Aorus X570 Elite to MSI Gaming Carbon Pro Max WiFi that's what I am interested in, well obviously I guess. I am possibly overlooking something
Well you said you went from an X570 to a B450, that is a downgrade. Performance wise you really won't see much of a difference but you will lose future CPU support and optimizations.
Not worried about that. Yeah I had a Gigabyte B360M H & 8100. Upgraded to an Aorus X570 Elite and Ryzen 3600. Felt I paid a premium for th X570 which was a huge waste for MY requirements and decided to exchange it, for the MSI B450. These 5 series boards just seem insane prices to me. I've saved £55 I can put elsewhere plus I get built in WiFi and some nice features and whilst performance is my absolute priority I can;t see a hit in my scenarios with the switch to B450.- again, that's why I am asking though.
No you are totally fine with the board you have now. In fact I would say the B450/Zen2 CPU combo is one of the best ever.
I recently bought a B450 and 3600 after I thought I killed my 6700K (it survives!). One of the major reasons to buy an X board is for better VRMs/VRM cooling for CPU overclocking and dual gfx card PCIe slots, at a fair cost. But the B board I got handles both of those great anyway (Asus ROG STRIX B450-F Gaming) so shrug. And its not like you can clock an AMD CPU much anyway, and when you try, there are many more hurdles. What I found incredible is remaining stable when knocking off over 0.5V from CPU load voltage. Using offset voltage I hit the min of -0.5V which put load voltage around 0.96V. Setting voltage directly I got it down to 0.90625V stable under AVX, 54C load (25C ambient) with the crappy Wraith Stealth cooler lol.
Thanks for the replys guys. Feel like I made the right decision with the B450 and the MSI Make sure you run before and after performance tests mate like cine EDIT: Saw this today - literally my point here
