Best X570 board under £300

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Going to do a little refresh soon, want to pick up an X570 board for a 5900X (3900X until I can get a 5900X).

I’d preferably like a board that has quick and long BIOS update support and known to be good at pushing Zen3 nicely.

Budget: No more than £300.

I had a Gigabyte X570 board at some point that I got a long well with Zen2. Is the Gigabyte Aorus Ultra worth going for still?
 
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I'm happy with my MSI X570 Tomahawk. Seems to have all the features and a recently bios update with AGESA 1.1.9, although lagging behind some others on 1.2.

The main selling point for the MSI seemed to be its VRM design, but I doubt that matters with a 5800x. The only reason I didn't go with the Asus TUF was lack of Wifi and some niggles with my last two ASUS boards, although we're going back 5-10 years tbf.

My only real criticism is that it doesn't seem to deal with unstable RAM configurations well, often requiring a CMOS reset if a choose something that won't post (4 out of 5 times now, just once did it detect and reset defaults on it's own).

Which is disappointing, as my cheap asrock x570 board always managed to boot again without a reset, after some training.
 
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Yaayuh! said:
Going to do a little refresh soon, want to pick up an X570 board for a 5800X.

I’d preferably like a board that has quick and long BIOS update support and known to be good at pushing Zen3 nicely.

Budget: No more than £300.

I had a Gigabyte X570 board at some point that I got a long well with Zen2. Is the Gigabyte Aorus Ultra worth going for still?
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b550 Master with triple m.2 PCIE 4.0 for £230

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/B550-AORUS-MASTER-rev-10

X570 TOMA with dual m.2 pcie 4.0 with no restrictions on PCIe slots £200-10

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X570-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/Overview

both with WIFI, UK RMA for Aorus and better VRM , no chipset fan.

best boards for £200-250
 
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My only concern with B550 is the way manufacturers usually prioritise BIOS updates. However, currently looking at the B550 AORUS Master, looks pretty damn good. Strange PCI-E layout though lol.
 
Yaayuh! said:
My only concern with B550 is the way manufacturers usually prioritise BIOS updates. However, currently looking at the B550 AORUS Master, looks pretty damn good. Strange PCI-E layout though lol.
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you'll never use the second pcie slot to be honest and thats the standard layout with boards having triple m.2 slots . also there is switches to split pcie lanes

x570 and b550 should receive updates first then its worked its way down
 
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you'll never use the second pcie slot to be honest and thats the standard layout with boards having triple m.2 slots . also there is switches to split pcie lanes
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I'd absolutely only use 1x M2 slot, It's more the fact it has a lane switch implemented which is just extra gubbins that's unnecessary for my use. I'm going off to dive into a rabbit hole and see if I can find if this has any negative effect.
 
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I'd absolutely only use 1x M2 slot, It's more the fact it has a lane switch implemented which is just extra gubbins that's unnecessary for my use. I'm going off to dive into a rabbit hole and see if I can find if this has any negative effect.
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b550 chipset , not designed to handle as many pcie lanes as x570. Gigabyte were just smart about its allocation on its flaship to offermore of a spread then budget/mid level X570 boards, like the toma only offereing two, but able to use full bandwidth to GPU slots etc .

all pros and cons .

B550 Aorus Elite v2/ X570 TOMA/ B550 Master will serve you well covering a range of budgets
 
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I'd absolutely only use 1x M2 slot, It's more the fact it has a lane switch implemented which is just extra gubbins that's unnecessary for my use. I'm going off to dive into a rabbit hole and see if I can find if this has any negative effect.
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No need to worry about the gubbins your not going to use even on x570 motherboards slots can get disabled (gubbins)
 
For £300 i wouldn't go with B550 chips just becuase there isnt enought PCIe lanes even with the B550 Unify's clever PCIe lane allocations. this is assuming you want £300 board for a purpose ie taking advantage of all the PCIE lanes,2.5GBe so on etc

ASUS X570 Strix-E/StrixF
Asrock X570 Taichi
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master/Ultra
MSI X570 Ace or Unify

they are all highly capable boards. personally, each of the above is perfectly fine. it is down to aethetics and implementation of PCIE slots and M.2 allocations. some boards have more space between each x16 slots and some boards are more compact, so preventing additonal addon cards to be installed should you need a triple slot GPU for instance.

and the last differential would be personal experience and your precieved aftersale services in terms RMA, Customer Services and BIOS/Drive updates.
 
ASUS are out just on the grounds they’ve burnt me too many times, by the way.

PCI-E allocation isn’t a concern, really. It’s only going to have 1xGPU, 1xNVMe M.2 and 1xSATA.

MSI Tomahawk X570 and Gigabyte AORUS B550 look to be brilliant for the price so will focus on them for research.
 
in that cse you dont need a £300 board, you need one that is between £160-£200.

then you can start looking at B550 boards too. but still I think X570 gives better expansion because of PCIE lanes.

I think the Gigabyte Aorus line has some power issues that wont power on until you pull the CMOS battery out and rest the board etc.

that really only leaves MSI (ASUS is pretty strong for the low to mid end, but you have discounted them) as ASrock offering in this range are way too budget and pretty poor on the VRM side of things. and the only board in this range you want to get is MSI X570 tomahawk as others have crap VRM
 
Yaayuh! said:
ASUS are out just on the grounds they’ve burnt me too many times, by the way.

PCI-E allocation isn’t a concern, really. It’s only going to have 1xGPU, 1xNVMe M.2 and 1xSATA.

MSI Tomahawk X570 and Gigabyte AORUS B550 look to be brilliant for the price so will focus on them for research.
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I'd just go with the MSI X570 Tomahawk. Performs above its price point; plenty people have the board if you need assistance and you'll never have to think about whether you will or won't need the extra Gen4 lanes in the future.

B550 boards are great but if you can afford it, a good X570 is not much more.
 
**** it. Just bought the MSI X570 Tomahawk.

Might actually hold out for the 5900X and stick with my 3900X for now.
 
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