Best mobo for easy to navigate and use BIOS? - AM4

[subbytna]

I've done a few builds for customers with different boards and there are pros and cons with all the boards I've used.

I'm looking to possibly move to Ryzen myself (spec in sig) and I'm wondering which board is the best for a BIOS that's easy to navigate and use? Also, which company does the most BIOS updates/improvements?

I'll probably move over to M.2 drive from a SSD
I've a few drives I use, ssd and mechanical drives
I'll only use 1 GPU
Looking at a Ryzen 1700 cpu

The last board I used was a MSI Tomahawk 350 and that BIOS was a dog to use :/

For my own use I'd like a board that has got a BIOS that is easy to get around. Easy to tweak settings and will let 3200RAM hold its speed without too much tweaking.

First thoughts was the ROG Crosshair - But it's a little pricey
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ket-am4-ddr4-e-atx-motherboard-mb-6aa-as.html

That's one I've not used before so I don't know what the BIOS is like on it.

Are there any new boards, released recently, that would be a good recommendation?

 

[hominid]

Unless you get Samsung B die ram then it's can still be a bit of a lottery to get 3200MHz on the ram. I've a Gigabyte Gaming 5 with Corsair 3200MHz ram, non Samsung, and the highest speed it runs at is 3066MHz and that's on the latest bios. It's close enough for me and an increase from 2133MHz that I had on release, so, hopefully, they'll fully sort the ram timings in a future bios release.

It depends how much tweaking you want to do but my own board doesn't have the amount of settings you can change as my old Intel system. You don't need a top of the line motherboard which is, for most people, overkill, when most x370 boards will do the job well enough.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

My personal preference is Gigabyte for boards but Asus Bios is top of its Game on any platform , i find MSI naff personally

Gigabte have an active forum for beta bios here and often post more up then Asus and the rest but more isn't always better- they just want more feed back

http://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/1542/original-am4-beta-bios-thread

as with the case in any brand, flagship and the one that sells the most stock are first on the pecking order

8 Packs ram seems to be a hard hitter with any AMD board and Chipset

 

[8 Pack]

Asrock Taichi very easy to use.

Change to manual set speed of cpu your trying to achieve and vcore. Enable xmp done. No need to set anything else. With my dimms 3333mhz is also very very easy. Just set 3333mhz mem speed. Done.....