Asrock or gigabyte?

Sephnroth

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So today I will be ordering my new core! It'll be a ryzen 1700 with 320mhz ram. The only thing I'm left umming and ahhing about is asrock x370 gaming k4 vs gigabytes ga-ax370 gaming 5 board. The asrock has a much more attractive price but seems slightly less featured and doesn't support 3200mhz out of the box but people seem to think it will "probably" support that speed with future bios patch.

The gb seems to have all the mod cons but it's expensive and I've seen lots of reports of people having problems... but again perhaps a patch will fix this. I will be ordering one or the other in about 4hrs... any advice? XD

Edit: might affect things, I will be using my already owned gtx 1080 with this build
 
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General rule, read all the reviews you can find on the motherboards on newegg and tech sites. That usually helps sort things out. I went with the Taichi and the K4 was one I looked at as well from ASRock. My experience has been great and my last three builds were ASUS. I have no experience with Gigabyte boards and I have honestly seen mixed reviews on their various models. I would suggest reading review sites as much as possible. Get the board you feel best about and that offers the most features that you NEED... then see what "wants" they meet.

3200 RAM will be fine on your board, whichever you get. You will likely have to tweak the bios settings and enable an XMP profile, but that shouldn't be any trouble for you.

The 1080...

Ditt44

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General rule, read all the reviews you can find on the motherboards on newegg and tech sites. That usually helps sort things out. I went with the Taichi and the K4 was one I looked at as well from ASRock. My experience has been great and my last three builds were ASUS. I have no experience with Gigabyte boards and I have honestly seen mixed reviews on their various models. I would suggest reading review sites as much as possible. Get the board you feel best about and that offers the most features that you NEED... then see what "wants" they meet.

3200 RAM will be fine on your board, whichever you get. You will likely have to tweak the bios settings and enable an XMP profile, but that shouldn't be any trouble for you.

The 1080 will not impact anything. Just make sure you reinstall the drivers after building the new OS drive.
 
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