AM4 High End Motherboard. Asus, AsRock, Gigabyte or MSI?)

Panos said:
We shall see, because each motherboard has something different to offer but all they are posted on the related websites.
The Taichi seems to have the most power phases (16), and supports 300W EX OC, with dual wifi on the back and a lot of overclocking and cooling stuff.
The MSI Titanium has an 11 step knob at the bottom end for overclocking to 4.4 or something like that, and 10 phases.
The Asus Hero, has 12 phases, and is a typical ROG board with all the bells and whistles, but on contrary to the others has only 1 M2 slot.
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Read about other brands second m.2 slot. There not PCIe 3.0 spec . run at 20Gb/s not 32
 
mattyc1977 said:
The as rock professional has 5gb lan which I am interested in, has all the same mosfets and caps as the taichi also so am very tempted but I have never had a asrock board before and I don't know what there firmware update timing is like or what there bios is like. I have been a Asus man for the last 15 years and also really like the crossfire board but looking at it, I don't think my noctua nh-d15s with am4 mounting kit will fit due to the strange positioning of the caps round the cpu socket. I have asked gibbon about this as they have tested the board but not had any response.
Anyone else with a noctua cooler using the am4 mounting kit noticed this?
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Exactly the same with me, I've always used ASUS boards in the past but ordered the Asrock Taichi this time round, the 2nd M.2 slot swung it for me.
 
Panos said:
I didn't said anything against about the Asus. But the others do have more M2 slots, regardless the spd.
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So you'd rather run say a £400 512 960 Pro at half speed in a second m.2 then use the 3rd PCIe slot on any brand x350 at full speed...

nkuk said:
Exactly the same with me, I've always used ASUS boards in the past but ordered the Asrock Taichi this time round, the 2nd M.2 slot swung it for me.[/QUOTE
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As above, use the 3rd PCIe slot. Can't fault the design and style of the board. Just hate it when people buy a sports car (nvme) and drive it in a residential 20mph area ... Lol
 
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re taichi the manual says

1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_1), supports type 2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)* (* If M2_1 is occupied, PCIE4 will be disabled)

so this is the slot one uses for full speed nvme yes? ( its the top m.2 on the board)
 
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Josu said:
Lets choose best motherboard for AM4 ^^

In my opinion from current market best is AsRock Taichi

I dont have so big experience, maybe you can advice something else from TOP range
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Hi - FYI - the first wave of motherboards are not high end, we need to wait to see the high end boards announced.
 
From a memory benching leak today, the CH6 Hero with a 1700 Ryzen was running DRAM at 1701MHz (DDR 3400 CAS 18) and I noticed that the FSB : DRAM ratio was at 3:40 giving an FSB of 127MHz against a stock FSB of 100MHz.

Interesting I think as it shows the Hero is capable of FSB overclocks.

Until I see Bios settings, I will not choose a board.
 
I will test Taichi tomorrow hopefully. So far I can only recommend Asus crosshair hero from my testing. It's the only one running mems at 3200Mhz solid with efficiency in two dimm configuration.

I have high hopes too for Taichi as I know Nick worked a lot on it and his boards are usually very efficient., Z87,Z97,Z170. They deserve more recognition than they get. But asrocks marketing budget prevents this......
 
I guess Asus CHVI is the best, but there will be no stock anywhere for a while due to the preorders :D. Gigabyte has tagged all motherboards as revision 1.0, which means 1.1 is coming 'soon' to improve things that no BIOS update can. The bottleneck to build a Ryzen system will be getting the motherboard, I've seen some (not the same model) on preorder with an ETA for 8th-10th on several sites.
 
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Morning all, got some info regarding why theres a bit of a lack luster number of boards as well as stock levels.

First of all seems Gigabyte has a 2 week backlog. Not saying this site but just in the UK as general. This stems from production being slow at the first and then only ramping up full time in January. In terms of numbers, currently they have 80% AMD market sure in the UK so its not like it was really smaller numbers being produced, they just didnt anticipate AMD pulling their figure out of their a£$% last minute.

AMD pulling their fingers out??? everyone on here has proberly seen leaks from October march time of Engineering samples of Zen being slow. Everyone thought these would go fast and that they were down clocked for testing.... No... they were s*&^ and thats what their speed were. No one was happy with it and revisions where done and come January, the Engineering samples went out and was a different beast with the product verison being just slightly better.
So this explains low numbers From Gigabyte as they went, oh.... right, better increase the numbers. Also why ASUS only Has/Had to real main boards for the Ryzen, they were as supportive as Other vendors towards AMD and only really increased product numbers rather then products .
Im sure after seeing their Strix Board everyone was surprised , well at least my self there's no Strix for the AM4 Platform yet and a big gap in their product pricing .

Again everyone knows that AMD finally got out their Samples to UK sites yesterday, Yanks got it a bit more . and the reason leaks are so far and few is that AMD sent non to vendors such as ASRock, Gigabyte etc . even yet they havent turned up I dont believe to UK offices .

Memory lists will all be out tomorrow, but expect the lists to be small. Seems a Vendor has to send the product code to AMD for them to send back coding so said vendor can add to their bios .

OCUK, as they've said are one of the largest resellers in the EU, so hopefully your pre-order will come in on time, but the reason why you se eother sites with later delivery dates is...well... its all been ordered and gone...

Ryzen is literally that good or that well believed and hoped in

hopefully this post will be informative more then helpful, but if its helpful great :D
 
8 Pack said:
I will test Taichi tomorrow hopefully. So far I can only recommend Asus crosshair hero from my testing. It's the only one running mems at 3200Mhz solid with efficiency in two dimm configuration.

I have high hopes too for Taichi as I know Nick worked a lot on it and his boards are usually very efficient., Z87,Z97,Z170. They deserve more recognition than they get. But asrocks marketing budget prevents this......
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doesn't help AMD marketing and NDA has just been utter garbage for an outstanding product :(
 
After 3 dead MSI x99 motherboards i wont touch em with a ******* stick.

Asrock runs 2 times better. Everything is better !!!
Download drivers and bios.... IN BIOS OPTION rocks !!!
Shiet this ASROCK x99 Extreme 4 i got now is best MB i had TBH.. Only went Asus due to..... USB Ports on back. My oculus rift with 3 cameras takes 5 USB ports !!!
 
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