Best Motherboards for Ryzen 3000 CPUs: X570 vs. X470 & B450 : Amd
TL;DR:
If you don't overclock, every board is fine.
If you need PCI4 go for X570.
If you need SLI go for X470.
All others go for B450.
General: VRMs and cooling are most important, BIOS Flashback, WiFi, Intel LAN are nice to have.
X570 picks (not tested, based on paper specs and photos)
- 700$: Gigabyte Aorus Extreme (best cooling, only board without chipset fan).
- 350$: No clear winner, all boards with massive VRMs.
- 300$: Asrock Taichi (best features).
- 200$: Asus TUF Gaming (WiFi) TAI Gigabyte Aorus Elite (Flashback).
- sub 200$: Gigabyte Gaming X (Flashback).
- ITX: Aorus Pro WiFi (like all ITX boards lacks VRM cooling)
X470 picks
- If over 200$ go for X570 TUF
- Asrock Taichi Ultimate (10G Lan)
- MSI Gaming Pro Carbon (also for OCed 3900X)
- Asus Prime Pro (for 6/8 core OC max)
B450 picks
- Go for MSI. If you don't like MSI, you are fu**ed.
- MSI Gaming pro carbon (good VRM, intel lan, WiFi, Flashback).
- MSI Tomahawk (like Gaming pro, no Intel lan, no WiFi).
- MSI Mortar (like Tomahawk, MicroATX, seems discontinued).
- MSI Gaming plus (like Tomahawk, lower class VRM).
- MSI Gaming plus MicroATX (only 2 DIMM slots).
- ITX: MSI Gaming plus ITX (like all ITX boards lacks VRM cooling)
Everything else has bad VRM/Cooling or awkward feature sets or Buildzoid forgot about it.