Decent Zen3 mobo?

[FoxEye]

Probably B550.
Budget £100 - £200
mATX or ATX (new case will be a mid-tower, mATX is a bit limiting)

Priorities are:
* Build quality (good VRMs, caps, etc)
* Pushing RAM (TridentZ 3200/14-14-14 is what I've got)
* System stability
* Audio (I don't use a sound card any more)

Don't care about:
* Go faster stripes/massive plastic spoilers
* RGB

Will use 1 or at most 2 NVME drives
One mid-high or high-end GPU, once they can be bought
One 5700X CPU, if/when they can be bought

Would be nice to get a deal in BF or Jan sales I guess.

My main priority is not getting a crap one, with crackly sound and instability.

Cheers all.

e: Should also say the last two Asus boards I've had have failed in some way. I've never had any other mobo other than Asus fail. So I'm pretty reluctant to buy any more Asus

 

[alec]

I think Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro ticks all boxes.
Compared to MSI B550 Tomahawk and Gaming Edge it has supposedly better ALC1220 vs ALC1200 audio.

mATX there are good boards, but none top tier

 

[Vogon]

The X570 Tomahawk was a rock solid stable board, audio was fine for me, but I don't use the PC for music, only gaming and watching you tube so can't comment beyond that.
I think its widely reported the VRM's are as good as some of the top tier boards, and I believe the B550 Tomahawk has the same ones.

 

[FoxEye]

Thanks both.

It seems my choice is between Gigabyte's high end boards and ASRock's high end B550 boards, since they both feature the ALC1220/ALC1220-VB sound chip, and decent caps.

So Aorus Pro, Extreme4, etc (Taichi and Aorus Master are a bit £much )

Anyone know how those two typically compare in terms of stability and using tight RAM timings?

 

[Vogon]

I have seen a few youtube reviews stating the VRMs on the Asrock are hot/not up to the task.
And from MSI anything other than the Tomahawks in the £200 and under price range have hot VRMs.
This chap has a few vids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD65w5RVmtY
Not sure how the Asrock B550 boards stack up.

 

[FoxEye]

All roads pointing to the B550 Aorus Pro then Seems like I can't really go wrong with that board.

Cheers all.