Motherboard Upgrade From B350 To B450 Queries

Dr. Dro · Nov 28, 2022

Toothless said:
Just an fyi, I've seen previous Steel Legends have issues galore. Good luck to your friend.

Probably due to high volume. These are very very popular and there are thousands upon thousands of boards. My brother's running the B450M Steel Legend for about 3 years now and it works fantastic, and my old 3900XT I gave him when I got the 5950X is quite the toasty and power-hungry CPU. It should work well

chrcoluk · Dec 7, 2022

AusWolf said:
I see... Well, there is nothing wrong with the Aorus B450 that you linked, but personally, I wouldn't get a 400-series board anno 2022, especially not with a 5600X. The B550 chipset doesn't only have PCI-e 4.0 which might be a huge advantage depending on your friend's next GPU choice, but also supports the 5600X without a BIOS update, not to mention potentially a 5800X3D if he decides to upgrade later.

The problem with a newly bought 400-series board and a 5000-series CPU is that the board might need a BIOS update before it works with the CPU. To do that, you need to pop in an older CPU that is supported by the current BIOS first.

Getting a board that natively supports the CPU is probably the best so basically saying a me to here. My reason being is the bios on my b450 pro 4, on its original release version and the slightly newer bios version there was a ton of bios options, when I upgraded it to the version which supported zen 2, more than half the bios features vanished, then on the next bios version for zen3 support even more vanished, when I finally put in the zen 3 chip some features reappeared but still most missing. A board which only has to support the newer chips will have less compromises in its bios

eidairaman1 · Dec 10, 2022

8tyone said:
Hi, Techpowerup'ians, asking this for a friend; His config. at present:

AMD R5 5600X
Gigabyte RTX 2070 8GB
Asus B350 Prime Plus
Adata XPG 2800MHz 2x8GBRAM
Antec HCG 750 Watts PSU
Crucial MX500 1tb + some HDDs
Thermaltake Versa N26

Would the Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro (rev 1.0) be a worthy upgrade to his current Asus B350 Prime Plus (Edit: esp. VRM wise) ? He is also planning to upgrade to 3600MHz, 2x16GB RAM in a month or two, would there be any problems with this motherboard with 3600MHz RAM ? Also, would he be able to enable Resizable-BAR ? He is getting this motherboard at a very low price and hence opted out of a new B550 chipset!

Thank you.

No get a B550

Taraquin · Dec 10, 2022

B350 should have no trouble running 3600 ram, maybe 3733/3800 may work. 5600X will run without problems, even a 5800X3D will do fine in gaming and maybe with a PPT-limut at productivity.

System Name	Project Kairi Mk. IV "Eternal Thunder"
Processor	13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900KS Special Edition
Motherboard	MSI MEG Z690 ACE (MS-7D27) BIOS 1G
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15S + NF-F12 industrialPPC-3000 w/ Thermalright BCF and NT-H1
Memory	G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 32GB DDR5-6800 F5-6800J3445G16GX2-TZ5RK @ 6400 MT/s 30-38-38-38-70-2
Video Card(s)	ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX™ 4080 16GB GDDR6X White OC Edition
Storage	1x WD Black SN750 500 GB NVMe + 4x WD VelociRaptor HLFS 300 GB HDDs
Display(s)	55-inch LG G3 OLED
Case	Cooler Master MasterFrame 700
Audio Device(s)	EVGA Nu Audio (classic) + Sony MDR-V7 cans
Power Supply	EVGA 1300 G2 1.3kW 80+ Gold
Mouse	Logitech G305 Lightspeed K/DA
Keyboard	Logitech K400 Plus
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise 22H2
Benchmark Scores	"Speed isn't life, it just makes it go faster."

System Name	Main PC
Processor	13700k
Motherboard	Asrock Z690 Steel Legend D4 - Bios 13.02
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15S
Memory	32 Gig 3200CL14
Video Card(s)	3080 RTX FE 10G
Storage	1TB 980 PRO (OS, games), 2TB SN850X (games), 2TB DC P4600 (work), 2x 3TB WD Red, 2x 4TB WD Red
Display(s)	LG 27GL850
Case	Fractal Define R4
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar D2X
Power Supply	Antec HCG 750 Gold
Software	Windows 10 21H2 LTSC

System Name	PCGOD
Processor	AMD FX 8350@ 5.0GHz
Motherboard	Asus TUF 990FX Sabertooth R2 2901 Bios
Cooling	Scythe Ashura, 2×BitFenix 230mm Spectre Pro LED (Blue,Green), 2x BitFenix 140mm Spectre Pro LED
Memory	16 GB Gskill Ripjaws X 2133 (2400 OC, 10-10-12-20-20, 1T, 1.65V)
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon 290 Sapphire Vapor-X
Storage	Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, WD Velociraptor 1TB
Display(s)	NEC Multisync LCD 1700V (Display Port Adapter)
Case	AeroCool Xpredator Evil Blue Edition
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs Sound Blaster ZxR
Power Supply	Seasonic 1250 XM2 Series (XP3)
Mouse	Roccat Kone XTD
Keyboard	Roccat Ryos MK Pro
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Processor	Ryzen 5600X@4.85 CO
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Cooling	BeQuiet Dark Rock Slim
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Storage	WD blue 1TB nvme
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Case	Corsair D4000 Airflow
Power Supply	EVGA GQ 650W
Software	Windows 10 home 64
Benchmark Scores	CB20 4710@4.7GHz Aida64 50.4ns 4.8GHz+4000cl15 tuned ram SOTTR 1080p low 263fps avg CPU game

Motherboard Upgrade From B350 To B450 Queries

Dr. Dro

chrcoluk

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

Taraquin