Best Ryzen 5000 Motherboard | Best Motherboard for Ryzen 5600X, 5800X, 5900X, & 5950X CPUs

ryzen 5000 cpus are finally in stock you're going to build one but you need to know what motherboard to get do you get x570 b550 b450 x470 a520 eight oh my gosh it's too much we're going to go through all the features that you need out of a motherboard and then we're going to go from every budget level to the budget all the way up to the premium motherboards with specific recommendations coming right up hi welcome back to pc builder today we are going to finally revisit our best motherboard series that was launched before ryzen 5000 launched and we're going to update it because finally the ryzen 5000 cpus are in stock we are going to cover everything today and you're going to walk away from this video understanding exactly what features you need exactly what chip set of boards you need and what specific model that you want to buy now of course that's what this channel is all about it's about getting you the best price to performance in your builds if that's content you want more of remember to like the video subscribe and click the bell icon that way you get notified when we go live with that let's jump right into this one let's start off talking about how much you should spend on the motherboard now for high-end cpus we're talking about the ryzen 5600x 5800x ryzen 5900x and ryzen 5950x you tend to want to spend about half as much as you spent on the cpu on the motherboard itself and use the msrp for that differs a little bit from say a budget processor where you're going to spend much much more of the budget on the motherboard because the processor is so cheap but i would look in that category of course if you need specialized features in the motherboard like thunderbolt 3 support or ecc memory then of course you're going to spend a little bit more but that's generally what i would look to spend so for a ryzen 5 5600x at 300 msrp i think about spending around 150 what chipsets do you want well let's start off with the ones you absolutely don't want you do not want a 320 it won't work it's an old chipset you don't want a 520 because while it will work it lacks overclocking features and it's really suited for low end builds not a ryzen 5000 build similarly you don't necessarily want to go out and get an x470 board new because there are only a handful of models still on the market and frankly in every price class that they're still offered they're simply better options that brings us to the b450 boards and there are some b450 recommendations in here however please note that they did just receive the bios updates for ryzen 5000 and you're going to need to buy a board that probably has bios flashback in it in order to use it with a ryzen 5000 cpu will cover bios in just a moment the other feature that they lack is they lack pcie 4.0 support at least officially and as a general rule the b450 boards because they came about during ryzen's more formative years board partners weren't really investing a ton in them and they lack things like high quality audio often they also lack things like a lot of connectivity and good vrms there are a couple exceptions and they are included in this list so that brings us to x570 versus b550 let's talk about the benefits of each i'm going to tell you right now 99.9 percent of you should be buying a b550 board if you don't get a b450 board here's why both boards have pcie 4.0 support the b550 boards have pcie 4.0 both at the top graphics card slot as well as the top m.2 slot the x570 boards offer some additional pcie lanes for 4.0 support and an additional m.2 slot for 4.0 support however 99 of you aren't even going to use the pcie 4.0 that's on those boards let alone additional pcie support over and above what b550 offers the b550 boards number one tend to be a lot cheaper they tend to have better vrms as a class although there are some phenomenal x570 boards and we have those on the list don't worry so overall i'm going to recommend that most of you if you're just gaming just doing productivity video editing work you're not going to see any benefit out of anything more than pcio 3.0 so i would consider a b450 or a b550 boards and those of you who need x570 know who you are already if you have to ask the question you don't need it and i do have some x570 boards on this list for you so now let's talk about bios do not skip this section of the video this is very important so in order to get ryzen 5000 to work with whatever motherboard you are buying it needs to have one of two things either it needs to come with a ryzen 5000 running bios which very very few motherboards if any right now are or it needs to be updated on the board there are two ways to update the bios one is you buy a motherboard with bios flashback on it you push the bios flashback button and it updates the board using just a usb stick without the cpu i have a whole video on how to do that i will leave it right up there in the card for you the other way to update the bios is you have to have a ryzen 3000 cpu and plug this 3000 cpu in get the motherboard and the system to post then update the bios then pull the system apart and then stick your ryzen 5000 cpu on it and put it back together again that is a real pain in the rear and most of you i'm guessing do not have a spare ryzen 3000 cpu so in my initial best motherboard series back in the fall i did give you the what i still consider to be the best price to performance b550 board out there however it does not have bios flashback and even though i told you you were gambling if you tried it i got a lot of angry messages so this time we are not doing any boards that do not have bios flashback on them because i want to make sure that you end up with something that you can work with a ryzen 5000 cpu motherboard form factor now motherboards come in different sizes obviously however there's three sizes that you're going to focus on for the purposes of building a new ryzen 5000 system and that is atx those are full-size boards then you have microatx which are effectively half size boards with just a couple fewer pcie slots on them and then there are itx boards those are for small form factor builds and a lot of you out there i know like to build small form factors don't worry i've got some itx recommendations in this video but for most of you 95 percent you're going to buy either a micro atx or an atx size motherboard how do you choose well i tend to like micro atx motherboards because i don't use most of the pci slots on a full size motherboard and that gives me the freedom to either buy a full atx size case or a micro atx size case depending on my budget and what the aesthetics i want to pick however some people don't like the look of a micro atx by the board in a full size atx case or they simply need those additional pcie slots on there so those of you are going to buy a atx size motherboard motherboard features now i'm going to list these in the order that i think most consumers want them on the motherboard and the order in which i've ranked the motherboards themselves the first one to start out with is connectivity rear panel connectivity how many usb things can i plug in there they want high speed usb ports they want a lot of them and generally you want at least one usbc port in there then of course we go to things like the network connection now most network connections at this point are at least one gigabit a second most people do not have an internet they can even take advantage of that so i discount that a little bit however i do include boards on the premium end with like two and a half gig uh land and things of that nature wi-fi is the same way you don't have to get a motherboard with wi-fi on it you can always buy a usb wi-fi bluetooth dongle plug it in and there you go for your wi-fi i will include links to some of those kinds of wi-fi adapters down in the description of course some consumers want to be able to buy a pc case that has a usb type-c front panel connector to it and be able to plug something in like their phone to it in order to do that you need an internal header on the motherboard for usb type-c now i will say that most cases still do not have usb type-c so this often isn't an issue but i will include listings from motherboards that have them as well the power delivery on the board itself called the vrms is also important in your decision now if you're just putting together a ryzen 5600x or 5800x it's unlikely that you're going to tax that system so much that it will thermally throttle that's really the thing that you're worried about with the vrms and the power delivery so for 99 of you the vrms on the boards probably won't matter however if you're going to put together a ryzen 5900x or 5950x and you're going to heavily overclock that and put it through some really torturous and long duration workloads this becomes more and more of a factor so i've taken into account the fantastic vrm thermal testing that hardware and box did i'll leave links to their series down in the description on that as we go through the motherboard recommendations themselves i'll include which cpus they're recommended for including whether or not you're going to be able to overclock them of course we also have to talk about the motherboard audio especially if you're gaming audio is a huge part of the experience or if you're just watching videos or something else on it also a huge part of the experience but when does motherboard audio actually matter what depends on what kind of device you're plugging into it if you're plugging in what's called an analog audio device something with a connector that looks like this then you are using the motherboard's on-board audio processing in order to get the sound if however you're plugging in something that looks like an hdmi connector or a usb connector those are digital connections and what you're doing is you're transferring responsibility for the audio onto some other device maybe a stereo receiver maybe a sound bar or something like that if you are going to plug in an analog device the audio does matter to you so what audio are you looking for well there are different things called audio codecs and to keep it simple the audio codec you want is either alc 1220 or alc 1200 these are both the high-end audio codecs now it's important to note that some motherboard manufacturers have their own branded version of these codecs so really you're just looking for the number either 1220 or 1200 even if it's like svb 1220-ac blah blah you're just looking for the number in there to make sure you get the right one and the motherboards i'm going to recommend at the more premium level i will tell you when they have better audio the second part of the audio you really want to focus on is how many capacitors are on the board itself this will have an impact in the overall sound quick note if you are plugging in a headset into your pc and you have an audio codec like an alc 1200 or 1220 you want to make sure to use the front panel connectors the reason for this is simple those codecs have additional signal to noise improvements and signal boost for the front panel connectors specifically and the alc 1220 deals really well with high impedance headsets m.2 and sata connections for your drives so most boards now luckily come with 2m.2 and 6 to 8 sata ports however note that on a lot of boards when you plug in a second m.2 you disable two of the sata ports you're still left with about four to six left so that's often enough for everybody rgb and fan headers some of you are really gonna care about this and some of you aren't gonna care at all obviously the more fan headers and rgb headers you have the more you can plug in without using a controller however even if you have a more limited number of them you can still buy for about 20 dollars sometimes even less a fan controller and i'll include links to them down in the description so i haven't taken these as much into account and of course many of the motherboards have onboard rgb itself and that may or may not be important to you i'll simply point it out as we go through the boards we're going to start off with the budget micro atx motherboards links to everything are going to be down in the description those links do support the channel so we'll really appreciate if you use them why am i starting out with super budget motherboards for ryzen 5000 because if i don't put these in here somebody's going to yell at me that there's no super budget option so we're going to quickly go through these i personally would not buy any of these boards verizon 5000 system however they are fine um we're going to start off with a b450 board which is the msi b450 bazooka max wi-fi if you don't need pcie 4.0 which honestly i don't think most people do this board would work actually just fine for you and it comes equipped with wi-fi for only doesn't have a lot of usb connectivity to it but frankly for a super budget system the vrms are just fine for a 5600x i wouldn't necessarily put an 8 core chip on it but you could nothing bigger than that going up the ladder if you want pcie 4.0 and a cheap board gigabyte's got the ds3h i hate the names of these boards but these are always good boards in every generation that they've got even for their intel boards decent enough heatsink and vrm solution to it it's got about the same amount of usb connectivity overall as did the bazooka which is not a lot but overall it does have two m.2 slots which is an advantage and you do get pci 4.0 now if you want wi-fi with a b550 motherboard then i would suggest at the super budget option the msi b550m pro vdh now yes this board looks like a came out of a radio shack with these old-school type um heat uh heat dispensers but so what it the board does come with m.2 wi-fi on it it also comes with a decent suite of rear panel connectivity to it you can see there it's got you got a couple of 3.2 gen 1 ports no type c though i will note it does though have a front panel usb type c header you can see it right there that you would connect to activate your front panel usb type c i would however say if you're spinning enough in order to get a case with usb type c on the front panel you can spend a little bit more in the motherboard and then finally rounding this out not because it adds any features whatsoever really but just because it looks like it didn't come from radio shack is the msi mag b550m bazooka gaming now all of these motherboards have a really kind of crummy audio codec if that doesn't matter to you it's okay i believe it's like an alc 897 or something like that one gigabit real tech land but overall they all have bios flashback they'll all work with ryzen 5000 cpus and i would put a ryzen 5600x on any of these and feel very comfortable with it now we're going to jump up into motherboards that i would buy for a 300 plus cpu all of these have great vrms they all have alc 1200 or better audio codecs to them and they all have a lot of usb connectivity let's kick it off with the gigabyte b550m aorus pro-p now if you watch my original video back in october you know that originally gigabyte came out with the b550m aorus pro had a lc1220 codec on it but the the vrms on this were just okay they upgraded the vrms they slightly downgraded the audio but overall this is a fantastic little motherboard and it's got a ton of usb connectivity which is something that i absolutely love about it it's got four high-speed usb 3.2 gen1 ports it's got two high-speed 3.2 gen 2 ports on it including a type c right there full suite audio connectors two and a half gigabit realtek lan you don't need me to list out the specs to you can see overall really nice motherboard retails for 129 dollars usually sometimes it's lower than that but lately it's been up in the 140s that's why it didn't quite make the budget range moving over then to the asus tough gaming b550m plus another really phenomenal motherboard this one is about a hundred and fifty dollars it also has a wi-fi variant that sells for about twenty dollars more than this one overall better vrm slightly better vrm's i would consider putting a 5950x on this for sure and feel very comfortable about overclocking it the pro dash p i would probably stop at a 5900x with overclocking but really phenomenal boards this one here again similar amount of connectivity to the aorus pro-p in fact exactly the same amount two m.2 slots a bevy of fan and rgb headers but neither of them have front panel usb type c header if you have a case that has usb type c header so for that i would recommend the msi mag b550m mortar similarly great audio it comes with only two 3.2 gen 1 ports and two 3.2 gen 2 ports including a type c which is great and two usb 2.0 so it comes with about half as many usb connections but you do get the front panel type c which is nice and look the board looks great it's got a great looking audio sections alc 1200 overall both all three of these are phenomenal options now we're going to jump into budget atx motherboards that i would definitely consider we're going to start off with a couple of b450 boards remember the b450 boards they lack pcie 4.0 official support for them however i think these two boards are really great now you might ask well where's the tomahawk b450 that's a fine board but for the price they're charging for it it lacks great audio and some other things i think these two are better options for it we're going to start off with the asus tough gaming b450 plus two they have reintroduced this board asus has it's got great usb connectivity including a type c port on it it has bios flashback now which the old the old tough gaming b450 plus did not the vrms are increased so you should be able to put i'd put up to a 5800 x on this wouldn't think twice about it it's got a number of fan and rgb headers and an alc 1200 series audio codec which is really really phenomenal that's for a hundred and twenty dollars over at amazon if you want something with wi-fi and you want like super great vrm's included and all the way up to an alc 1220 codec well there's the msi b450 gaming pro carbon max wi-fi that's a mouthful i know this is the tomahawk b450s big brother basically the premium line for msi and in their b450 range it's got bios flashback it has a really great audio section to it has phenomenal connectivity i have to say absolutely phenomenal connectivity to it and it comes wi-fi enabled for only a hundred and fifty dollars for a full-size atx motherboard that is really tough to be now let's jump over into more premium motherboards all of these are gonna be under 200 but honestly i wouldn't see why you would want to spend more we will go through some x 570 boards and of course we're going to hit those itx boards all the ones i'm about to show you have an alc 1200 or 1220 codec so that great audio sections they all have fantastic vrms i would feel comfortable putting up to a ryzen 5950x on them and overclocking the heck out of it they all have great usb connectivity but let's jump through them individually i would say getting which one you're going to get is a function of price because the prices are all over the place uh the prices you see right now are probably going to change drastically let's start off asus tough gaming b550 plus not much different than its microatx sibling great usb connectivity great audio on this board overall a ton of fan headers 155 right now this is this is the board i would buy if i was buying today very close second to that would be gigabyte b aorus elite v2 now the v2 versions of the aorus boards have a front panel usb type-c connector on it although this picture is the old picture so it's got the wrong picture on it but you got to trust me that it does actually have that uh that connector on it so if you need that for your front panel the v2 version is the one to get otherwise get an msi board 160 over at amazon really not much else to say about it this is a phenomenal board the vrm on this is perfectly adequate for the 5950x overall great audio it's got an alc 1200 codec on it these all have 2.5 gigabyte real tech lan it does come in a wi-fi enabled version which is called the ax um if you don't need the front panel connector you can get this one for 170 if you do need the front panel usb type c connector it's a little bit more money it's 15 more now we're going to jump over to the msi mag b550 tomahawk selling for 165 dollars right now over at newegg this again if you need the front panel usb type c that's really the decider this is another board to get it does have reduced usb rear panel connectivity to it as a result it does have two and a half gigabit uh lan and and a one gigabit lan um as well i'm never sure who the audience for that is but somebody out there will find a use for it i'm sure someone will tell me down in the comments now if you're really super into the audio i have to say that one of the best boards to get for that is the asus rog strix b550a or b550f the only difference between those boards is that the b550f comes with amd crossfire so you can put two graphics cards on here that are amd nobody uses that anymore i don't know why they make a special board for it but they did but the audio section on this one looks really phenomenal as well as pretty good rear panel usb connectivity uh the other difference between them is the f here selling for 178 dollars is all black with some red highlights and the a variant selling for 180 over at newegg is kind of more of a metal white so if you want a white build this is actually a pretty good motherboard to look at then of course we've got the gigabyte aorus pro now this has an alc 1220 kodi codec as well 170 however they do not have a v2 version of this in the united states with the front panel usb type c connector it's kind of a bummer overall like it's just a very similar board to the rog strix and since the rog strix boards have come boards have come way down in price i would actually consider them ahead of the gigabyte b550 but again it's all price dependent because any of these boards are going to be phenomenal msi has a wi-fi enabled version of the tomahawk they basically call it the msonic gaming edge wi-fi identical to the tomahawk including that it doesn't have a better audio codec than an alc 1200 which is unfortunate um 487 dollars the rog strix versions that we looked at the b550f does come with a wi-fi enabled version for about twenty dollars more and the gigabyte b550 aorus pro does come with an ac uh wi-fi enabled version for about twenty dollars more as well sells for 200 total okay x570 boards now i've already explained why you don't need x570 most of you so for the one percent or two percent of you that do let's go through a couple of x 570 options right now so starting off we got the gigabyte x570 aorus elite wi-fi now you could put up to a 5950x on this i would start feeling a little uncomfortable with the 5950x with super overclocks but it should be able to handle it uh with extended workloads this is a board you can buy either with or without wi-fi the non-wi-fi version is only like a couple of bucks less so just for the bluetooth alone i think it would be worth it it's got a ton of usb connect uh connectivity on it and it does have a front panel usb type-c header as well for only about two hundred dollars i think this is if you want x 570 with bios flashback so you can use it with ryze ryzen 5000 this is probably your absolute best budget option and it's got premium features to it so to me i'm not sure why you would spend more money than this but if you want to spend more money you certainly can right the next one up is the msi mag x570 tomahawk now this should be the best budget option and if you're in other markets i know this board often does better but in the united states it sells for well over its 199 msrp you can see right here it's at 267 when you can even find it in stock very good motherboard again if you're in a region where this is a great budget option go for it it has a little bit less usb connectivity to it but it certainly has plenty and overall rock solid vrm pretty good audio to it as well at the i believe it's alc 1200 codec and a nice looking audio section in terms of capacitors to it and then i'd be remiss if i didn't include two motherboards that are currently out of stock that everybody seems to want to get their hands on the first being the asus rog crosshair 8 dark hero has been sold out since it was announced really it's got just a really cool color scheme to it and if you have the money to burn look this is this motherboard is second to none for sure um and then of course we've got the msi meg x570 which again is just completely out of stock but a lot of folks use for benchmarking and testing purposes it does have the 3m.2 slots on it like a lot of the higher end x570 boards it has a pretty nice looking audio section on it as well rear panel is just really phenomenal super fast speed usb connectivity but overall those are your options all right let's quickly go through small form factor itx boards there's only four of them that are realistic because these are the only ones with bios flashback now itx board small form factor you often get a lot less connectivity they always come well at least these come with wi-fi six enabled which is fantastic there are some very small differences but in terms of price they all range between 200 and 210 dollars except for the x 570 option that i'll show you in a moment starting off with the msi gaming edge wi-fi b550i they all have two m.2 slots however the one thing i will say while this has decent usb rear panel connectivity and it's got the front panel usb type c header on it it does have this active chipset fan and i'm not pardon the pun but i'm not a fan of these what happens if this fan goes out yes you can probably replace it but what happened happens if it gets noisy is that something that you want to put up in put up with i would rather for a better passive cooling solution which we're about to see in the gigabyte b550i aorus pro it's got a heat pipe here to the chipset which is a really interesting cooling solution so you don't have that active fan i really do like that has a little bit more usb connectivity than its counterparts and then rounding out if you have to absolutely have x570 for some reason in a small form factor you can get the gigabyte x570 aorus pro wi-fi pretty good connectivity on this it does of course like the other ones have bios flashback on it however i would expect more out of an x570 board because it's supposed to have more uh what am i paying for here uh and we have the return of this horrible chipset fan again if it does its job and it's quiet it's great but what happens when it doesn't are you gonna put up with that on a 200 motherboard i'm not a big fan of it again pardon the pun and it does not have the front panel usb type c connector either i hope you enjoyed that romp through best ryzen 5000 motherboards leave me down in the comments which ones are you most interested in what are the features that you're most looking for and of course remember to give the video a like if you got value out of it and subscribe for more content with that i'm jason and i'll catch you on the next one

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Length: 29min 25sec (1765 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 27 2021