Choosing a motherboard for Ryzen

neon4

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Hi,
I'm planning an upgrade with Ryzen 1600x and am currently looking for a really solid motherboard as I'm going to OC the CPU and I know what pain it is when the mobo is weak.

I'm hesitating between these 4:
ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming - AMD X370

ASUS CROSSHAIR VI HERO - AMD X370

MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM - AMD X370

ASRock X370 Taichi - AMD X370

The Asrock fatality has the most phases (16) while Asus has a really good bios (so they say), question is if 16 phases are not overkill, Taichi doesn't have anything extraordinary out of these 4 but is cheaper, not really sure about the MSI, kind of a similar thing, good looks.

I really struggled with power phases and bad mosfet cooling in the past so I want to have this covered as well as possible. Any experience with either of these mobos? What would you recommend? I'm leaning towards the fatality, but if there is a better value for money in the top tier, please tell.

Thank you in advance for any comments
 
Honestly just ignore the power phases on those boards as they all are overkill. Realistically you are not taking Ryzen higher than 4.1 Ghz so really nothing to worry about as long as they have decent power delivery and all of those options do. I agree the Asus board is the one I would choose feature wise.
 

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