X570 Motherboard for £200-250

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I am putting together a secondary setup (5800X) and I am looking for an X570 board for around the £200- 250 mark, Any good suggestions? The MSI Tomahawk seems a popular choice, how does it stack up against the Gigabyte and Asus boards?

 

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Yes I'm happy with my Tomahawk. Despite its stupid pointless minimalist LEDs, and Sata headers in a place where big GPUs make them tougher to reach. And no heat fins on top of the M.2 heatspreaders.

But it is stable now the UEFI (bios) updates made the grade (ok that's really down to AMD chipset updates rather than MSI)

I like my tomahawk.

Thanks for the feedback and good to hear the Tomahawk is stable. Also thanks for listing a few quirks, always good to hear these before hand.

Any other issues or things to note on the Tomahawk?

I have had a quick look at the Asus boards but I am concerned that the chipset fan is placed directly under the gpu and I have read that the Gigabyte boards have a cold boot issue? Hence the Tomahawk seems to be my favourite at the moment, I have also been looking at the Unify.

 

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Love my Tomahawk no regrets!!

You can’t beat it for the money.

Thanks and good to hear.

I am going to be the outlier here and say that you should seriously look at the B550 Unify. I have both boards and suffice to say the X570 Tomahawk is sat in its box in the cupboard.

Interesting.

I have had a look at the B550 boards mainly for matx options, however I could only see the absence of a chipset fan as a benefit. Could you expand on why you prefer the B550 to the X570?

I have also been looking at the Unify X570 but no one has any stock at the moment. I also like the look of the X570 Strix - E but the chipset fan location is a concern.

 

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x570 toma or B550 Master > great if your not going to use dual GPU and can still run 3x m.2 pcie 4.0 drives

and no chipset fan

Thanks orbital, the tomahawk and unify x570 are at the top of my list. I am going to order some time this week.

 

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Same boat here I've settled on the x570 unify just waiting on stock now

Nice one. From what I have seen it might be coming this week.

any reason for x570 over b550 ? some b550 can save a lot of cash , even toma range will save £40


check out the master for £20 more in some places . UK RMA for a costly board

I am not really worried about saving a bit by going for the B550, my other board is a X570 Crosshair Dark Hero so this by that account is a cheaper board. I really just want the full feature set that the X570 has too offer, the only downside to these x570 (excluding the Dark Hero) is the chipset fan which from what I have read never spins up. Plus the pc is loacted 5m away from me.

As for the Unify and Tomahawk there are two reasons why I would go for the Unify over the Tomahawk and that is the fault read out and clear cmos button. Other than that I think either board will be suitable.

 

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I ended up going for the x570 Unify, thanks for all the input.

 

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Received mine today

Nice one. Let me know what you think.

 

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Haven't started yet dreading using Corsair 570x case not great to work with had it 5 years was looking at getting Lian Li 0-11 but they have new version coming Q3 21

Always the way that you have to wait for something you want, I get this all the time.

Btw I don't know what you paid for your unify but they dropped to £256 yesterday where by the day before they were selling for £296-315.

 

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I waited slightly had feeling it would go down went for it once it went £263 Inc delivery next day

I noticed it has the ryzen 5000 ready sticker not surprising being newer batch

Glad to hear you didnt get scalped. I nearly ordered at the higher price but got side tracked and when I came back to order the price had dropped.

Also good that you dont have to flash straight away.