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welcome back to how we run box we are finally back from Kombat X and it is time to get into our more regular content today's video is one that I have been planning for a while now but somehow never seem to get around to doing since the release of the second generation rise in process as many of you have been requesting a benchmark comparison between the various AMD chipsets in particular the x4 70 and be 350 chipsets and we're looking into this I decided to go one step further and include the a320 chipset as well for this comparison we will be looking at stock out-of-the-box performance with the Rison seven 2700 X using the wraith prism box cooler along with ddr4 3400 memory in addition we'll also be tightening up the memory sub timings to see if the optimized memory performance differs from one chipset to another previously we found very mixed results when testing memory performance on the a320 motherboards often finding them to be considerably worse than similar price to be 350 boards however all boards have now been updated to support second generalising processes and with that also received improved memory support representing the a320 chipset is the a320 m pro 4 as your ox most premium a320 motherboard which currently retails for $65 u.s. the board officially supports 105 watt TDP processors that means the 2700 x should work without an issue and asrock says you can even get away with using a liquid cooler which typically means less airflow over the board's verum heatsink for those wondering the board features a three plus three phase verum and the vcore vrm has three phases with a doubling of everything for the be 350 chipset we used the fatality a be 350 gaming k4 and for the x4 70 chipset the mighty x4 70 Taichi ultimate barely chipset missing from this comparison is the X 370 but we've already established that there's really nothing separating the B 350 and X 370 chipsets in terms of performance and memory support so with that let's jump to the results first up we have the memory bath result and as you can see the performance is much the same across the three boards tested even with the enhanced sub timings I have to admit I was quite shocked to see the a320 board were perfectly fine with the tightened timings particularly given that this exact motherboard wasn't that willing to accept faster memory with the previous biased revisions the Cinebench r15 scores were also much the same and we saw no real increase in score when trimming the memory sub timings moving on to the corona benchmark and here we see that the stock performance was exactly the same on all three motherboards however the tuned memory sub timings did lead to slightly better performance on the x4 70 MB 350 models while the a320 was around three percent slower the last application test we ran was Excel 2016 using the Monte Carlo workload here the x4 70 board did complete the test in the shortest period of time though I should point out that less than a percent separated the fastest and slowest result now for some gaming benchmarks and starting with Assassin's Creed origins we see little to no difference between the various boards also chewing the memory didn't really seem to help improve performance in this title next up we have ashes of the singularity and here we do see some variation in performance stop the x4 70 board was up to 2% fast on the a320 board not a lot though as we were only seeing a 1 to 2 FPS difference the margin grew slightly with the tweaked memory sub timings and now the x4 70 board was as much as 5% faster though when compared to the be 350 board we did only see a 1 to 2 FPS difference battlefield 1 performance was virtually identical on all three boards and the tuned memory offered a nice 10 percent performance bump again for all three boards this time we're testing with Far Cry 5 we see very little difference between the B 350 and x4 70 boards while the a320 Bob was often just one to two FPS slower finally the last game tested was vermintide 2 and here the a320 board was never more than two and a half percent slower than the x4 70 model while the be 350 board basically offered the same level of performance okay so if you're not planning overclocking which you probably aren't if you intend on purchasing either the 2600 X or 2700 X then a cheat be 350 board will be just fine evidently an a320 board will also suffice but giving you are paying just $10 more for an equivalent be 350 board and we've always felt that that's just a more sensible option of course if you're spending over $300 u.s. on a rise in 720 700 X or over 200 you ask and I rise in five 2600 X you're probably budgeting a little bit more than say sixty to eighty dollars u.s. for the motherboard also there are some decent X 370 boards currently selling for around $100 u.s. so if you are after our high quality board but you do still want something that's quite good value then I recommend checking out some of the X 370 boards that are currently available the main takeaway here though being that a decent be 350 board is able to match a high and X 470 board in terms of performance the fatality a be 350 gaming 4 also had no trouble pushing the 2700 X to an all-court overclock of 4.2 Hertz and with the tune sub timings the performance was mighty impressive so that being the case I have to admit to making an incorrect assumption in my risin 5 2600 vs. Core i5 8400 benchmark comparison in that mega benchmark video I said the following at the very least the overclocked configuration will require an upgraded cooler but for the results shown here you'll also need a quality motherboard and premium Samsung B die memory during my initial second gen rising coverage I did have some trouble with the high performance memory on 300 series boards with the early bass revisions problems I didn't have with any of the X 470 boards tested with so much additional content to cover after the second generalizer release it's taken me quite a few months to get back to 300 series chipset testing I would have got this video out last week if it weren't for Computex but anyway it's done now so to clear up my previous statement to achieve the overclocking results shown the horizon 5 2600 vs. Core i5 8400 head-to-head you require an upgraded cooler and premium Samsung B die memory but any old be 350 motherboard will suffice given that you don't actually require a high-end motherboard to take advantage of the Samsung be drier memory and those tweaked memory sub timings that makes the optimizer rise and set up a little more cost-effective in my top-five best be 350 motherboards video I named the Isuzu prime be 350 plus for $100 u.s. the best value at X be 350 motherboard available today I still stand by that pick when looking exclusively at ATX be 350 boards and at around $40 US than the cheapest X 470 models that is a decent saving of course we do have B 450 boards in coming next month and while they are for the most part just reef to be 350 boards there might be a new best value option to look out for in any case it's great to see memory support continued improve for the Verizon processors and that is going to do it for this one if you did enjoy the video be sure to hit the like button subscribe for more content you'll appreciate the work we do in our box then consider supporting us on patreon you will gain access to our monthly live stream and discord chat anyway as always thanks for watching I'm your host Steve and I'll see you next time