Poll: What AM4 motherboard will you be getting?

What manufacturer AM4 will you be buying?

  • Asus

    Votes: 93 33.0%

  • Asrock

    Votes: 66 23.4%

  • Gigabyte

    Votes: 81 28.7%

  • MSI

    Votes: 37 13.1%

  • other.

    Votes: 5 1.8%
  • Total voters
    282

DoneADougalOnSofa

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Last Gigabyte encounter was a Z87X-UD4H. Power supply VRMs gave out after 2 and a half years. Wasn't even ragging anything. Their Z77 boards had issues too, got a UD5H in the drawer somewhere, with the dreaded bootloop issue.
Maybe I just had bad luck. Never had a single issue with Asus though... (And that's the kiss of death right there!).
 

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Ahhh that's a nice feeling Darren!

Just ordered a hero and 2700x. Coming tomorrow.

I like both giga and Asus but my last giga board had a weird issue with not being able to be put in sleep mode. And I've gone off the crazy rbg direction they've gone in.
 

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So all of you who got it at £129.99 Well done :) Just you may have to wait now tell more stock arrives

But if they had say 9 in stock at the time of order placed then you should get one of them
allocated to you.

for £129.99 for a 2ND Gen X470 that is a Good Buy
 
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I would take a motherboard with very solid and beefy M.2 cooling plates. Which motherboards comes out of the box with the best M.2 solution?
 

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luckly ordered a asus rog crosshair vii the other day, last one in stock at time got it for £226.99 looked this morning and its £244.99 glad i ordered early before reviews came out but i did have a good feeling about the X2000 series.
 

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pcfarrar said:
Yes no heatsink on the second slot.
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Reson why no heatsink on the 2nd slot it is not needed due to it being the M.2 SATA 2 X Port
One would not stick a 4 x M.2 into a 2 x Slot, well a noobie may :)

M.2 X2 SATA Slot about the same or cooler than a normal Inclosed Case SATA SSD,
Also, the performance of an M.2 X 2 & SATA SSD are around the same & bottleneck at 6GB/S

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Yes, due to PCI-E 3.0 x2 on the M.2 slot 2, it might not need the cooling plate.

PCI-E 3.0 x4 is 3.94 GB/s
PCI-E 3.0 x2 is 1.97 GB/s
PCI-E 2.0 x4 is 2.00 GB/s

So, theoretically the MSI motherboards which all come with the M.2 slot being PCI-E 2.0 x4, we will get higher speeds.
The Asus ROG Crosshair VII comes with 2 full speed PCI-E 3.0 x4 M.2 slots.

It is interesting that this Asus has the same price as the MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC which has that slower PCI-E 2.0 x4 M.2 slot.
 

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Yep Will not need cooling plates, I have an M.2 10gb/s Plextor 2 x gen 1 & always stayed cool like a normal SATA SSD
so a 2x 6b/s will be fine :)


Picture of my old plextor
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a little faster than the 6gb/s
 

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Actually, I changed my mind after the research. No MSI and Asus for me. The MSI has the second M.2 slot slower, while the Asus has two full-speed M.2 slots but at a considerably higher price.

I should take the Gigabyte https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-GAMING-7-WIFI-rev-10#kf with DDR4-3600 support and two full-speed PCI-E 3.0 x4 M.2 slots:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £217.49 (includes shipping: £10.50)

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