The right motherboard x570 brand help

Meridiusuk · 15 Dec 2019 at 01:09

Hi all,

I have always bought asus motherboards and nothing ealse but i would like to know why people are saying the gigabytes are good. I have herd gigabyte motherboards never realy used good quality components otr has that changed this time, What about Asus ? have they went down hill or have gigabyte upped there game ? its just i remember years ago people who bought gigabyte where the cheaper not as good brand.

I have not built a pc in 10 years as i am looking to upgrade to a x570 3900x so just needed some advice on this as to be honest never bought AMD to as i am looking to change

thanks for any advice on what board to go for as i am looking for a real solid board but not the silly priced versions.

the motherboards i was looking at are, as there nearly all the same price and features are

Gigabyte Master x570
ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero x570
ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X x570

as there nearly all the same spec and price wise

thanks

TonTom · 15 Dec 2019 at 14:07

I’ll repeat a couple of the things that the good folk on here have told me.

Go Gigabyte. Uk RMA with a gigabyte rep on these very forums. Best phase count of the X570 boards except for the ridiculously expensive Xtreme version.

Asus for me had the best features. Loads of USB3 ports of the rear plate though only two M.2 slots.

apostolis_kt · 19 Dec 2019 at 14:51

It will depend on your needs.

I built my new pc and I was in the same spot as you are and hadn't built a pc since 2008. Never had an issue with asus but had issues with other brand of mobo it think it was a dfi.

Originally i was certain to get an asus board like the x570-e and then the price on the CHVIII hero dropped so was considering that for the stupid amount of fast usb. But i really didn't like that it didn't have 3xm.2 slots.

I see myself using 3 m.2 and so i decided to go for the Aorus Master x570 which everybody sais its the best board for the money in regards to specs, and warranty as there is UK RMA support. So far i am happy with the purchase as i actually found it cheaper on blackfriday week by 40 pounds compared to the chviii. And I see now it is actually cheaper everywhere.

orbitalwalsh · 19 Dec 2019 at 14:54

Master > Hero .

Gigabyte ha massive updated their Bios and seems 8 Pack on here quite likes it .

would just save cash and go for Ultra. Same looks, slightly less VRM then Master and gets the job done . £50-100 saving over the Master depending on where your looking

Avalon · 19 Dec 2019 at 16:28

ASUS suck at RMA’s - just ask OCUK or look at the previous threads.
ASUS suck at support, BIOS issues are occasionally fixed then re-broken, multiple times.
ASUS largely ignores historic products, by that I mean as soon as they lunch a ‘new’ rehash of the same board, the official support thread will be unpinned and promised fixes/issues get ignored and put on the back burner. Good luck getting any actual work on a BIOS done by them after that in a timely manner.

Not sure where the idea Gigabyte use lower quality components comes from, it largely depends on the board, budget boards from any OEM tend to be lower spec than flagship models, this is true with ASUS or anyone else.

orbitalwalsh · 19 Dec 2019 at 17:32

@Avalon it came from Gigabyte x470 and z370 boards not being too good bar flagship.
Why z390 was a complete U Turn and massed everything by a mile, x570 followed suit .

Bios has finally caught up with x570 range to being good to use

EsaT · 20 Dec 2019 at 12:57

Meridiusuk said:
I have always bought asus motherboards and nothing ealse but i would like to know why people are saying the gigabytes are good. I have herd gigabyte motherboards never realy used good quality components otr has that changed this time, What about Asus ? have they went down hill or have gigabyte upped there game ? its just i remember years ago people who bought gigabyte where the cheaper not as good brand.

Like Buildzoid said it in one video: Every motherboard maker sucks.
If you buy basing on previous products you'll find sooner or later having turd in your hand.
Especially B450 Asus and Gigabyte boards were pretty much with scam level VRM not good for all advertised supported CPUs.
Again MSI dominated with basically all common in retail sales B450 boards having lot better VRMs.

While in X570 all MSI boards below Unify are VRM wise crap for their price using same VRM components as £100 B450 boards.
Again Asus and Gigabyte learned from their mistake.

In fact every Asus X570 board has basically overkill VRM for stock 12/16 core. Though otherwise Asus is real penny pincher in some features.
Gigabyte put there two old VRM design boards as cheap models.
But starting from Aorus Elite you get that overkill level modern design VRM and better features than in bottom end of Asus.
With USB-C header and two USB3 headers (lacked by Asus boards above Prime X570-P) and better implemented chipset HSF than in any X570 Asus.
In Finnish PC forum one user reported just yesterday evening 83C chipset temps in Crosshair VIII Hero after 1½ hour of RDR2 gaming with 2080Ti Strix.
USB BIOS flashback is another feature Asus makes you pay arm and leg.

xLegendary · 22 Dec 2019 at 05:04

The problem with Buildzoid is that his analysis almost imply that all motherboards suck because they don't have a overkill VRM.
And I love how he just glance over the brands mobos list and just talk good and bad like if he read all specs.

To be fair, any motherboard that is not a A320 will run a 8 core CPU with no problems, the VRM might be a bit too hot? yea well then you don't have airflow in your case.
I would take this opportunity that X470 are on sale and get a high tier like the Taichi and be done with it, you will have one of the best motherboards made to date for AM4 at a reasonable price.