Best AM4 Motherboard Right Now?

My X370 Gigabyte board worked flawlessly

>S/PDIF Out
>Bunch of USB ports
>PS/2 port
nice
>Gaymur shit
So close

got a crosshair vi hero 150$ last sept. 3. werks nice with my 2700X

Why are Ryzen mATX boards so shit?
Why did assrock make pic related?

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If you are not in need of something like Crossfire/SLI, you should go for the MSI Pro Carbon AC. Solid VRMs and featureset that you would usually see in $200+ motherboards, and costs less than $130. The Tomahawk is nice and cheaper but doesn't get you as good VRMs and features.

The only good one right now is the MSI B450 Motar because it has adequete VRMs and cooling and isn't a piece of shit like every other one.

>better vrm
The VRM itself isn't inherently better than the mediocre boards, people who have looked into it have found out most companies use exactly the same parts, but the cooling is better.

This. I was THE Gigglebyte fanboi, but they've dropped the ball on AM4. The BIOSes are simply terrible: I can't set the SATA ports to hot swappable/eSATA anymore - so there goes the raison d'etre for my eSATA port and hot-swap drive bay.

I found that most AM4 have terrible BIOS compared to even cheap older AM3 boards like AssRock.
I have the one in OPs pic and supposedly it has a watchdog that resets settings if the computer won't boot a few times, but nope, every time I set a too high DDR4 OC I had to manually do a clear CMOS instead of it auto resetting like even my old AM3 boards did.

If you have the money go for a X470, if not the B450 boards will work fine even with Ryzen 7 up to their promised boost clocks, but I wouldn't recommend trying to push it over that.

Word, thanks. I found a Ryzen 7 2700 for $220 so I jumped on it. Went ahead and ordered the tomahawk too. I'm mainly interested in video editing so I won't be needing extreme overclocking, I'm just looking for fewer dropped frames and and faster rendering times.
Pretty stoked I found such a good deal on that chip.

You did great! Ryzen 7 is pretty based for creativity, even the lower clocked non-X version, especially for that price.
I recently jumped on the Ryzen ship also after doing extensive research.

>Best AM4 Motherboard Right Now?
The one you like and suits your use case the most.

Many cases don't have room for more drives anyways. People that need more drives can get a different motherboard or actually use one of the many PCIe slots for an HBA.

Who the fuck uses non-buffered non-hardware RAID SATA controllers anyways? The only valid options are NVMe, RAID controllers with cache and PCIe SSDs with onboard controllers.

Thanks, and yeah I had been lurking and researching and saw that the non x chip was normally $290...I'd been planning on buying the R 5 2600, but given the $70 off I saw tonight, I figured why not.
Which chip do you have?

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Tons of home users, obviously. Not everyone has a large enough data store to be panicked about the URE scare stories that - magically - only started to appear after zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/ was published.

>muh hardware RAID meme
Enterprise users use Ceph and Gluster or software raid in the form of ZFS.

I have a 2600X, it was on sale also, cheaper than the non-X at the time.

Anyone that care about their data. ZFS (and others like BTRFS) works best on plain AHCI controllers. Software RAID is also very flexible compared to hardware raid. Doesn't require fancy drivers, and is very portable in case of hardware failure.

You have your "home server" for data storage and integrity and nobody is talking about that, your local storage is about SPEED, IOPS and overhead, dummy.

>your local storage is about SPEED
SSD on a plain AHCI controller, or NVMe.

Just built a PC with the B450 Tomahawk. Only issue I had was that the heatsink that comes with the R3 2200g hits that giant heatsink on the left side, so I ended up having to block the first RAM slot.

>expecting NEETs to have money for proper hardware
Top kek m8

Too bad it only has 6 SATA ports

Not like anyone but Timmy playing Rocknite is going to use onboard SATA.

c6h is the better choice. way cheaper more sata same vrm. only downside is ram xmp is annoying to set up and that you only have 1 m.2 slot.

Do you know a good MoBo without the RGB bullshit? I will be using it for Jow Forumsaming, but I shall not tolerate lightning leds in the inside os my case, even if I cannot see them.

>but I shall not tolerate lightning leds in the inside os my case, even if I cannot see them
thats just autism. also all boards can have leds disabled. my asus boards pretty good. although the post lights and status lights cant be disabled which kinda sucks

Anyone running a proper OS with real filesystems does.
>ZFS
>HAMMER
>BtrFS
>bcachefs

Asrock currently has best quality cheap b450 mobos. Literally all, well most, b450 boards have the same manufacturer's VRM+mosfets, probably other components too. Currently I'd probably go with a asus x370 board bought on sale if any of the boards had flashback BIOS update. I can't remeber. Eurofags also get Gigabyte steam money cashback which is great even though the boards are meh.