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Old January 23rd 19, 12:39 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd
MaxTheFast
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Default What B450 MB for ryzen 2200g + 2x4GB kingston hiperx predator?

Thanks a lot Paul for your time, I've learned so much about that.

I'd like to ask you a last opinion about this Gigabyte MB which is within my budget as well:
Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO (rev. 1.0)
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard...support-manual
http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList...ifi_1002_e.pdf
48 total pages (+ another separate 27 pages PDF of useless "unique features"), 13 bios pages, a couple of pages about "MIT" (advanced settings such as XMP, etc), but there's only the following about DRAM:
"CPU Vcore/CPU VDDP/DRAM Channel A/B Voltage/+3.3V/+5V/+12V/VCORE SOC - Displays the current system voltages" so nothing explicit about DRAM manual setting though I know from forums this is a MB for "enthusiasts".
Moreover its QVL contains HX432C16PB3K2/16 (as the ASUS') so one of my HX432C16PB3K2/8's "twins".

Anyway I've got the 2 asrock Mbs' manuals as well and they seem pretty well done:

- asrock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming K4
https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/Fatal1...dex.asp#Manual
http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/...aming%20K4.pdf
89 total pages, 22 "UEFI SETUP UTILITY" pages, a couple pages of "OC Tweaker Screen", in particular: "DRAM Voltage - Use this to select DRAM Voltage."

-asrock b450 pro4
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B450%2...dex.asp#Manual
http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/...450%20Pro4.pdf
82 total pages, the rest is as above

Of course the "quantity" of pages doesn't matter in these cases because fonts are huge! One thing about both asrocks impressed me: in both bios sections (eg: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B450%2...index.asp#BIOS) we can read "We don't recommend users to update the BIOS if their system is already running normally". As far as I know enthusiasts update bios to improve features too, especially for OC, so why this message? Just for newbies or it's a general matter of asrock bioses reliability, in the sense "our bioses are so bad that you'd update yours only if you've no other solutions to carry your system on"? That has came to my mind as you wrote about your experience of "hacked" asrock bios.

So what MB out of those 4 can you finally suggest me for the "AMD overclocker easiest life" after these last comparisons?

See you and thanks again for sharing.