M-atx advice.

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Hi all,

For my birthday I've decided to upgrade pc; the cpu I've chosen is the Ryzen 5 3600, so I need advice on m-atx motherboard and ram (plus how much ram). Don't need gpu.

Max £150 for motherboard and same for ram.

Thanks for looking
 
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...am4-b550-micro-atx-motherboard-mb-35e-ms.html

MSI b550m mortar mobo. £160 I think

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-b450m-mortar-max-socket-am4-ddr4-matx-motherboard-mb-348-ms.html

MSI b450m mortar max mobo. £99

Team 8 3600MHZ 16GB Ram £129

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-black-my-08q-tg.html

I have the b450m and the Ram.

The b550m is £60 more and TBH you won't notice any differences in real use, You have faster m2 support from 3.2GB a sec to 6.4GB a sec I think.... compared to the B450m.

The MSI has good VRMs.
:)
 
I was going to go b450 mortar max with viper steel.

But then I saw the 3300x cpu and can't decide if I will need a 550 motherboard.
 
MoBo said:
I was going to go b450 mortar max with viper steel.

But then I saw the 3300x cpu and can't decide if I will need a 550 motherboard.
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Yeah , you have the PCI-E x4 on the B550 in which you have faster m2 support from 3.2GB a sec to 6.4GB a sec .... compared to the B450m but you wouldn't notice that unless you do a lot of large files transfers often. You wouldn't notice the difference with x4 over x3.

You also have PCI-E X4 on the graphics but the fastest graphics cards aren't anywhere near saturating PCI-E x3.

Because it's £70 cheaper it's tough as the B450m is a bargain and will be able to take the 4000 Ryzens, both the mobos have very good VRMs.
 
I'm building something very similar. But as I needed WiFi I went for the B550 Mortar WiFi version.

Once I added to the WiFi card to the B450 mortar there was about £20 difference so thought it as worth the extra.

I've also got the same ram (16 GB) but the rgb version as couldn't find the silver version anywhere.
 
Matt_West_Mids said:
I'm building something very similar. But as I needed WiFi I went for the B550 Mortar WiFi version.

Once I added to the WiFi card to the B450 mortar there was about £20 difference so thought it as worth the extra.

I've also got the same ram (16 GB) but the rgb version as couldn't find the silver version anywhere.
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Out of interest how fast is internet on these wifi motherboards
 
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