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pigeonguyuk

pigeonguyuk

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Which of the following would you pick and why?

Looking to pick up a bargain hence the b Grade. Will be paired initially with a 4/6core, overclocking is unlikely but would want to be future proofed and be able to handle 8core in future.

ignore the other items

if anyone would recommend another board instead let me know why

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £763.66 (includes shipping: £11.70)​
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pigeonguyuk said:
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LOL...
Prices should be other way.
X570 Aorus Elite is completely superior in every important area with that X470 having even little worser CPU VRM than MSI B450 Tomahawk.
Asus again has 15 year old bad design X570 chipset coolers.


And Samsungs are heavily brand overpriced always.
Drive which would be full after Wintoys10+Modern Warfare should cost pocket money.
 
EsaT said:
LOL...
Prices should be other way.
X570 Aorus Elite is completely superior in every important area with that X470 having even little worser CPU VRM than MSI B450 Tomahawk.
Asus again has 15 year old bad design X570 chipset coolers.


And Samsungs are heavily brand overpriced always.
Drive which would be full after Wintoys10+Modern Warfare should cost pocket money.
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Thanks for the info, I can get the x470 board for £140 would or would I be better making an offer on one of the other x570 boards .or just go for a new b450...or better still hold out for the b550 boards?


If you can link ones that would be recommended , if there one of the b grade x570 what would be worth buying that would be good like the as rock steel legends
 
pigeonguyuk said:
Thanks for the info, I can get the x470 board for £140
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MSI B450 Tomahawk has little better CPU VRM than that Gigabyte X470.
Neither it has PCIe v4 or any other thing of value in future.
MSI B450 Carbon would give also that Wifi with cooler running VRM.

Cheap as new X570 boards really aren't much better in CPU VRM.
£200 level is where strong modern design VRMs (and good feature sets) start in them.
That Aorus Elite would have been darn good for that price with "proper overkill" for stock CPUs VRM and good balanced feature set with plenty of expandability.

Only MSI (crap VRMs in X570) and Gigabyte used common sense in chipset cooler design with good size heatsink farther away from graphics card's heat and capable to semi passive cooling minimizing fan wear.
 
Id go for the Gigabyte X570 Elite out of that lot, The X470 is more expensive, why pay more for the previous generation of board, you could hold out for B550 if you're not in any hurry, which is due for release next month, and MSI have something big coming too with the Tomahawk X570 WiFi too which is promising to be the best mid tier X570 board going, you can find plenty of well respected reviewers screaming and shouting about that board on YouTube, that should also be available around June time.
 
The x570 Tomahawk seems to be worth the wait so I'll hold out as want something I wont need to upgrade for 3-4 years minimum.

Budget will be limited for cpu and gpu.

So initially might pair it with a 3300x when released and a bgrade/2nd hand gpu

Then when have cash around xmas either upgrade again
 
pigeonguyuk said:
The x570 Tomahawk seems to be worth the wait so I'll hold out as want something I wont need to upgrade for 3-4 years minimum.

Budget will be limited for cpu and gpu.

So initially might pair it with a 3300x when released and a bgrade/2nd hand gpu

Then when have cash around xmas either upgrade again
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Keep an eye out on MM, I read yesterday that the 3300x and 3100 are meant to be a beast of an overclocker if you get a good one, people were reporting 4.6ghz on all cores. https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-3-3300x-ryzen-3-3100-cpu-overclocking-4-6-ghz-all-cores/

By Xmas, we should have RyZen 4000 too, which will drop straight into that board with a bios update.
 
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