Quote: My use case will be the 3700x and a RTX 2700 GPU, for gaming, streaming, web surfing. Nothing special. As long as you don't need a ton of storage, the B450 is not a bad choice.
The B450 boards offer a single 10Gbps USB 3.1 port, whereas the X570 offers two USB 3.2 ports. 2 slots go, the B450 boards offer one slot for SATA and NVMe drives, but the X570 has two slots - one supporting PCIe 4.0, hence opening you up to a world of very quick SSDs.
The Ryzen 5 3600 comes clocked at 3.6 GHz for the base and 4.2 GHz for the boost, the 3600X runs 200 MHz faster at 3.8 GHz and 4.4 GHz, so a 6% base clock increase and a 5% boost clock increase. The base model R5 3600 currently comes in at $175, while the 3600X costs 14% more at $200.
Choosing the best X470 or X570 motherboardX570 is the best platform for AMD Ryzen processors right now. Indeed it's among the best motherboards, but if you want to save a little, the MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS. This Prime board comes with PCIe 4.0 and high-quality components for stable performance.
To ensure compatibility, you'll need a BIOS for your specific B450 motherboard that supports AGESA 1.0. 8.1 at the very minimum. This AGESA code enables Ryzen 5000 Renoir compatibility. 8.0 BIOS's that will be available for all its 400 series motherboards (not just B450).
Will a Ryzen 5 3600 work out of the box on a B450 motherboard, or will I need to do a BIOS update? It depends on the B450 motherboard. Usually, newer boards would already come with the bios update.
The B450 Tomahawk Max should be good for some decent overclocking on a 3700X.
The MSI B450 does not have WiFi. The MSI - MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI does. For about the same price, you can get the ASUS TUF GAMING-PLUS(WI-FI) (same socket, same chipset [so same speed]), and no nonsense with the NVMe slots. (and 128GB of RAM slots).
Nope, sorry! B450 Tomahawk Max is only for AMD AM4 CPUs. No, AMD and Intel CPUs are completely incompatible with each other.
R5 3600 with B450 or X570. Nothing is future proof. So "future proofing" in general is a very speculative process at the best of times, but in this case it's downright non-existent. If you're looking for a fairly modest build right now, the R5 3600 with a B450 board is probably your best bet.
Yes. 1st gen ryzen uses the B350 series motherboard. B450 series is the successor for B350 series. And since it is still the same AM4 chipset, it is compatible.
And, after reviewing user feedback, AMD said it “will enable an upgrade path for B450 and X470 customers that adds support for next-gen AMD Ryzen Processors with the 'Zen 3' architecture”.
If you're getting a Ryzen 3000-series processor, X570 motherboards should all just work. Older X470 and B450 as well as X370 and B350 motherboards will probably need BIOS updates, and A320 motherboards won't work at all.
