Any real downside to B350 over X370, aside from SLI?

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Lawrence_22

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I was originally going to buy an X370 board, but all (except the Biostar) are out of stock. So I got to thinking on whether or not the B350 would be fine for what I want anyway.

I'm building a Ryzen 1800X box for mixed gaming, graphics (Photoshop, After Effects, etc), 3D rendering, and video editing. I don't have any desire to go SLI or Crossfire. But I do intend on buying the fattest, nastiest single GPU I can find. Which is the 1080 Ti, whenever it pops back into stock. Going to run a Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2 drive for boot, and probably 2x 3TB Seagate Barracudas for data. Going with 32GB of RAM in two DIMMs, since Ryzen seems to have issues with four.

Overclocking will only be casual. Whatever the low hanging fruit is. If I can get a few hundred MHz for free, I'll take it. But not going crazy on OCing.

Given all that, is there any downside to going B350? If not, Asus or ASRock B350 boards?
 
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If you are going to run a high end build which is evident from the 1080Ti, 960 EVO m2 and 1800X, you might want not to skimp on the board and not go for X370.
X370 are designed for overclocking, m2/pcie SSDs and multiple drives/GPUs.
 
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Im currently wondering the same... (But because of cheaper board not because of availability)... im split between AsRock X370 SLI killer and AsRock B350 Pro4...

and i dont know what to go for... People generally suggest X370 but i believe they dont even know why... :)
The X370 have generally better VRM, but since you dont to overclock its not an issue probably, also i saw on reddit users with 1700 overclocked to nearly 4 GHz with B350 boards... So im not sure...

It really seems B350 should suffice... (?)
 
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Both B350 and X370 can oc, but x370 will provide better overclocking because they have more power phase, like AsRock X370 SLI killer has 12, and AsRock B350 Pro4 has 9.

And Both 1800x and 1700x has the same 140W TDP, so even the b350 can handle it, but how far ( ocing ) you can go, and nobody will know until someone tests it, because they are pretty new, you can't find more reviews on them, so better to wait for a while to see which one is better.
 
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Well yes i know that, but if you look at some other x370 boards from other manufactures, they sometime have even less than 9 phases (b350 AsRcok board). Also vast majority of people wont be pushing OC... so something like 3.8-4 GHz around 1.35 Vcore is what most people will go with... and i have a feeling that this is something the B350 AsRock board can handle easily...

Sure if yo uwanna go crazy with OC without safe or normal numbers (beyong 4+ GHz and 1,4+ vcore) the x370 asRock board might be better but i dont think majority of people will go ther.e..
 
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x370. More USB connections, typically and more SATA3 connections. More power phases, more stable with more head-room, generally. You get what you pay for. Dynamic and flexible are the x370 and longer-term life span. If you research all the boards, compare features, and read reviews from users and tech sites alike, I think the general opinions come out clearly. At lest for me. At the first of the year I wanted an MSI Titanium... but the price... the features of the Asus Hero VI or Prime were almost as good and the price was better. However, after following threads and reviews, I have set my sights on the Asrock Taichi. At this point, it's got the best combination of all for what I am looking for as a five-year window from the next build.
 
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