Question Motherboard for Ryzen 5 3400g? B450 vs X370?

Valeny123

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Hi, i am building my first pc. Which of these two motherboards should i get for Ryzen 5 3400g? (Don't recommend me another brand or model, these are the two available in my country, because of warranty, price, etc)
My PC: Ryzen 5 3400g, 2x8 RAM 3200MHz, 1 TB HDD.

The options:
I don't have dedicated GPU for the moment. I pretend in the future do OC, put a dedicated GPU, maybe add RAM, upgrade the processor, put a SSD, etc.

The X370 has better OC than the B450, right? is worth it buy the x370 only for this?
The B450 "get older better" than the x370? I want to upgrade as late as possible
Aclaration: I think the BIOS won't be a problem, because the store update it to me, so...
What do you think? The price is pretty the same.
I am a little bit more on B450, but i am pretty noob in this, so..

Thanks!
 
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Campy

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I would not recommend either of those boards, but if I had to choose between those two I would choose the B450. I haven't looked closely at the specs but the two boards look identical except for the B450 having better VRMs.
 

Charlie98

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I just upgraded my primary desktop with the DS3H board, it's working well so far. One caution... if you plan on putting a full-length GPU in, it will cover 2 of the 4 SATA ports. The 2 open are accessible, the top port is usable with a 90^ SATA plug, as shown in my photos...

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Other than that, it's a decent board. The BIOS sucks, but that's Gigabyte. Mine came with the F41 BIOS, so it is supposed to be good with 3rd Gen Ryzen out of the box. I did update to F50, however, as a matter of course.
 
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