What would be the best MB?

[trickson69]

I was doing some thinking and the B350 chipset I have is fine and all but I am getting a new Ryzen 7 1700 and was pondering if this upgrade would be best for that CPU?
What do you think of this one?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813144189

Keeping in mind best bang for the buck and I do NOT need nor want any of that lighting crap. Just a big waste of time when you think about it.

 

[Mr.Scott]

No different than your B350, only newer.
You need an X board.

 

[trickson69]

No different than your B350, only newer.
You need an X board.

An X board? OMG.
So okay now I need a X? what is the best X board for this CPU?

 

[EarthDog]

Is your board holding you back in the first place?

What motherboard do you have?

 

[trickson69]

Is your board holding you back in the first place?

What motherboard do you have?

No not at all. I was going to put the New Ryzen 7 1700 on a new MB so I can keep the GA-AB350M- gaming 3 for the Current Ryzen 3 1300x. It is a great MB maybe I can just get another one?

 

[Mr.Scott]

No not at all. I was going to put the New Ryzen 7 1700 on a new MB so I can keep the GA-AB350M- gaming 3 for the Current Ryzen 3 1300x. It is a great MB maybe I can just get another one for cheep??

That's not what you asked for here.

I was doing some thinking and the B350 chipset I have is fine and all but I am getting a new Ryzen 7 1700 and was pondering if this upgrade would be best for that CPU?
What do you think of this one?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813144189

Keeping in mind best bang for the buck and I do NOT need nor want any of that lighting crap. Just a big waste of time when you think about it.

 

[trickson69]

That's not what you asked for here.

Okay.......... Not sure how to respond to you here.

 

[Mr.Scott]

You asked for an upgrade. The upgrade from a B board would be an X board, otherwise it's just another B board.

 

[EarthDog]

No not at all. I was going to put the New Ryzen 7 1700 on a new MB so I can keep the GA-AB350M- gaming 3 for the Current Ryzen 3 1300x. It is a great MB maybe I can just get another one?

I'd step up to a decent X470 board for the ryzen 7... surely some robust b450 will fine too...

Your current board looks a bit anemic to push Ryzen 7... though those more familiar with ryzen can confirm/deny that.

 

[trickson69]

I'd step up to a decent X470 board for the ryzen 7... surely some robust b450 will fine too...

Your current board looks a bit anemic to push Ryzen 7... though those more familiar with ryzen can confirm/deny that.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813145060

What do you think of this?
Oh that don't look good.
I think MSI is the better one.

 

[trickson69]

I settled for this one. MSI - X470 GAMING PLUS
Piced it up for $125 us dollars. This should do it now for RAM! OMG!

 

[Alaric]

RAM is at it's lowest prices (that I've seen) in 2-3 years, and Ryzen/RAM compatibility has never been better. Now's the time. If you don't want to OC your memory just pick up the cheapest you can find at the speed/timings you want. The performance difference between a $200 G. Skill set and cheap Nanya memory is exactly zero at identical speeds and timings. For that chip I wouldn't bother paying for anything over 3200-3466 MHz.
That MSI board should be great. Unlike the bad old days of AM3+, MSI really brought their A game for AM4 boards.

 

[Woomack]

I had MSI B350M Mortar Arctic (just because it's white ) and it was working great. Memory support was better than on most other motherboards. It was also cheap. Actually, all ASRock and MSI AM4 boards I had were working great.

 

[Johan45]

RAM is at it's lowest prices (that I've seen) in 2-3 years, and Ryzen/RAM compatibility has never been better. Now's the time. If you don't want to OC your memory just pick up the cheapest you can find at the speed/timings you want. The performance difference between a $200 G. Skill set and cheap Nanya memory is exactly zero at identical speeds and timings. For that chip I wouldn't bother paying for anything over 3200-3466 MHz.
That MSI board should be great. Unlike the bad old days of AM3+, MSI really brought their A game for AM4 boards.

That's fine for Intel but AM4 doesn't always play nice with all sets of ram. Check the QVL from MSI and find a set that they say will work on that board 3000-3200 MHz is about where you want to be. Or look for RAM that says it works with AM4 in it's description or on their website.

 

[Alaric]

True, and I haven't seen that board's QVL, but here's 16 GB og G. Skill FlareX DDR4 3200 MHz for $110. As the higher priced inventories dissipate the the over production from the Intel CPU shortage, combined with its effect on risin' (see what I did there? LOL) AMD sales, should have AMD friendly RAM doing the same price dive for the next quarter.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232767

With the 10 nm Coffee Lake release guaranteed to be-maybe, someday, this year is going AMD's way.