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Hello there!

Thank you for coming to this thread.! I am going to build a low end gaming pc with AMD Ryzen 5 2400G. For this processor which motherboard from below will be better??? Please need your help. Please specify the reason and your logic.


#ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0
#Gigabyte B450M S2H



Thanks in advance for your valuable time and information! ;)
 
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look on the specs sheet and decide on what features you need & want, performance wise you won't see a difference
 
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asrock: "Pure black PCB appearance. The new Sapphire Black PCB represents rock-solid quality and gives the motherboard a more mysterious touch. " mysterious touch LOL this mobo is really UGLY.
The gigabyte has at least a small heatsink on vrm
 
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asrock: "Pure black PCB appearance. The new Sapphire Black PCB represents rock-solid quality and gives the motherboard a more mysterious touch. " mysterious touch LOL this mobo is really UGLY.
The gigabyte has at least a small heatsink on vrm
I second that just a week ago i build a System with Gigabyte s2h , its good the 2600 had no problem boosting and staying at 3,9ghz hole time.
Note: I used a downdraft cooler making use the extra air and heatsink on the vrm.
 
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look on the specs sheet and decide on what features you need & want, performance wise you won't see a difference
Both of them are almost same.! That's what confusing me, lol. So I wanted to know which brand will be better in quality. I never used any of them.
 

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Both of them are almost same.! That's what confusing me, lol. So I wanted to know which brand will be better in quality. I never used any of them.

AsRock has way better quality, and service, in general. That said, I really don't like that there is no VRM heatsink on the Asrock board.

Personally, I'd spend the ~$15 more and get a ASRock B450M PRO4.
 

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You still did not mention what is this setup for ? If you are looking for an OC journey or just a regular setup. And then are you interested in looks as well ? lights moding etc ?
 
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Go with the As Rock from my experience on AM4 I have bought over 8 B350 to X470 As Rock boards and all of them are still rock solid. As for Gigabyte I fell in love with the X470 Gaming 7 but that board is now looking good in a bookcase because I get the dreaded 00 Bios code.
 

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Go with the As Rock from my experience on AM4 I have bought over 8 B350 to X470 As Rock boards and all of them are still rock solid. As for Gigabyte I fell in love with the X470 Gaming 7 but that board is now looking good in a bookcase because I get the dreaded 00 Bios code.

And gigabyte has poor customer support.
 
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Both of them are almost same.! That's what confusing me, lol. So I wanted to know which brand will be better in quality. I never used any of them.

I've built mostly with asrock and gigabyte mobos and in personal experience I prefer the Asrock BIOS over Gigabyte but I also prefer Gigabytes BIOS over Asus and MSI. The Gigabyte boards I own (have owned) tend to run warmer then other brands (nothing significant though) and the budget boards don't OC as well. That said Asrock is considered the "budget" brand of the big four.

Hope that helps.
 

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If you look at the forum. Asrock barely has issues reported where as Gigabyte both from Intel and Amd hasn’t been upto its mark.
 
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You still did not mention what is this setup for ? If you are looking for an OC journey or just a regular setup. And then are you interested in looks as well ? lights moding etc ?
I mentioned that my setup is for low end gaming PC. Yes of course I'm going for OC journey. But I am not that much interested in looks and lights modding though.
 
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If you look at the forum. Asrock barely has issues reported where as Gigabyte both from Intel and Amd hasn’t been upto its mark.

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Another for asrock, rock solid boards even their budget ones have better vrm's than a lot of other more expensive boards, also as mentioned gigabytes qa and support leave a lot to be desired lately.
 
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AsRock has way better quality, and service, in general. That said, I really don't like that there is no VRM heatsink on the Asrock board.

Personally, I'd spend the ~$15 more and get a ASRock B450M PRO4.

This. Pro4 is a complete, and pretty damn good value board. Go lower, and you might just feel it some day.

GB alternative might be just fine, but the reputation certainly is not. Not a good time to be buying Gigabyte lately, duds and shit design (2060 OC) left and right, and lots of reports of bad service.
 
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Another for asrock, rock solid boards even their budget ones have better vrm's than a lot of other more expensive boards, also as mentioned gigabytes qa and support leave a lot to be desired lately.
As for I know, This model doesn't have the vrm Where the gigabyte does.

I would go with the Gigabyte model.



The Gigabyte model has heatsink on the VRM , the circuit which powers the cpu by converting 12v from the power supply to 1v..1.4v used by the CPU... this means the VRM will be cooled better and in general have lower temperatures.

Now, with a 4 core processor like 2400g it's not that important, because the CPU doesn't consume so much power that the VRM would be hot, but if you'll want to upgrade the cpu in the future to a six core or an 8 core, having heatsinks on the VRM will help.

So having heatsink on the VRM is a plus and makes the board better suited for overclocking. BOTH motherboards can do overclocking, but the Gigabyte model seems a tiny bit better.



A part of the VRM which powers the integrated graphics does not have heatsinks on both motherboards, so both motherboards are equally bad... you should not overclock the integrated graphics by a significant amount.



Besides this, the Gigabyte model has an additional pci-e x1 slot that's positioned well at the bottom of the motherboard and isn't blocked by a big video card you'd put in the pci-e x16 slot. The Asrock model has only one pci-e x1 slot above the video card slot.

So you have 2 pci-e x1 slots on the Gigabyte board and only 1 pci-e x1 slots on the Asrock model.



So that's all when it comes to hardware differences, the audio chip, the network chip are the same, the memory slots are the same amount (2), you have the same number of USB ports, SATA ports, same number of video connectors.



If you ignore the lack of a pci-e x1 slot, the Asrock is slightly better in the cable management department : the SATA connectors are right angle which helps route the SATA cables away from the board, instead of sticking straight up. Also, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 headers are in a slightly better position, near the center of the motherboard so you don't have to pull the cables from the front of the case all the way to the bottom of the motherboard.

Last, visuals... the Gigabyte is all black/gray while the Asrock one is a mix of black and white and lots of stripes... I like the all black more.



Oh.... and the Gigabyte has TWO ps/2 ports, which would allow you to use a PS/2 keyboard AND a PS/2 mouse while the Asrock has a mixed PS/2 keyboard/mouse port. But in real world... few people use ps/2 mice anymore so it's not that important.

And... the Asrock model has a COM header, which would allow you to add a serial port connector on a bracket but that's only relevant to you if you deal with connecting to devices using null modem cables and so on ... a usb to serial adapter is a couple of dollars if you ever need one, so it's not really such a big deal that it's missing from Gigabyte boards.
Someone suggested me in other forum.! So what about the PCI Slot and VRM in Asrock?
 

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I mentioned that my setup is for low end gaming PC. Yes of course I'm going for OC journey. But I am not that much interested in looks and lights modding though.
Then go for asrock as gigabyte offering fusion is serious pain.

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Not all of them might be reliable.
 
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if you dont want to OC, take the one u like. If you want to OC id go for the one with heatsink.
 
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I only use ASRock these days. Used all brands in the past, but 3 dozen motherboards later, they are my go to.
 
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I'd go with the ASRock. Gigabyte have done nothing but drop the ball for me lately. :(

Maybe their new round of products will entice me into believing differently... only time will tell.
 

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I use a lot of AsRock boards when going smaller builds at work for Linux because of the price, life span, and support such as bios updates, drivers are almost always updated to the newest one.


Even in my personal rig when I when Coffee Cups with the i7-8086K I went AsRock Z370 Taichi and I totally love the board no issues, performance problems or random issues with bluescreens all this has disappeared when before reinstalling my Windows 10 most of my problems went away and I had Asus, Gigabyte and MSI in the past and to be honest I will go AsRock again in the future which I had this knowledge in the past because then I would have chosen AsRock back then too and I built my fear share of custom rigs not only for myself but also for friends, family and customers.
 

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still have working Asrock Board from the S478 when they were a marginal player.
If The Asrock Board has the Feature's you want/need i would chose the Asrock over the Gigabyte ( even if it cost slightly more).

note www reports of gigabyte problems are more prevalent compared to Asrock but that may be because of greater market share.
 
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With motherboards no rules. All PC parts I import from country near mine, because it's 20-25% cheaper.
Only motherboards I always bought in my town in store. Because biggest chance that something will go wrong.
Among high end motherboard dominate ASUS ROG, I talk about 350-400+ price range. Cheaper, I'm not sure.
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