Top 5 AMD X570 Motherboards

This is the entry point for the platform and we don't recommend spending less on an X570 motherboard. For smaller budgets you're better off with a quality B450 or B550 motherboard instead. For a sub-$200 budget, the only board worth considering is the Asus Prime X570-P and we have to say, for a $170 X570 motherboard it's actually very good.

If you can spend a little extra though, you will be rewarded with two high quality motherboard options.

For around $200, the Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus WiFi carries the same VRM performance as the Prime, but the extra $30 gets you better features such as Wireless-AC, improved audio, USB Type-C, and two extra SATA ports.

Then there's the newer $200 MSI Tomahawk which is the most impressive X570 motherboard we've tested at this price point. The Tomahawk has the advantage of being the newer, more polished offering over the Asus TUF, and it did run 16 degrees cooler in our OC testing.

There are considerably more options for those of you spending around $300. None of them can be considered bad choices, which should be no surprise given this is a rather high price to pay for a motherboard supporting a mainstream socket. With that said, you should know the MSI X570 Tomahawk has VRM performance that can surpass many of these at a lower price point, just make sure it's got the features you want, since it's still a mainstream level offering.

The winner in the $300 category is the Asrock X570 Taichi. The board did quite well in our VRM thermal testing and for $300 it packs loads of features including Wi-Fi 6, three M.2 slots with full coverage heatsink, eight SATA ports, high quality audio, Intel Gigabit LAN, plenty of USB 3 ports, BIOS Flashback, and much more. It's also a great looking board with some nice lighting effects, if you're into that sort of thing.

Two worthwhile runner ups can be either the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Ultra or Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming.

Previous generation boards could also be considered for the savings. If you don't need PCIe 4.0, you might want to check out the X470 Taichi. It's a very good board that can be had for less, making it great value.

There is a smaller group of four motherboards that will set you back around $400 and we've tested them all. The Asrock X570 Phantom Gaming X is selling for $350, the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master is $360, the MSI MEG X570 Ace Gaming for $370 and then the Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero for $360 without WiFi, or $380 with WiFi.

In our latest round of VRM thermal testing the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master really impressed. Worst case in that testing it matched the Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero, while comfortably beating options from MSI and Asrock.

We like the Aorus Master for a few reasons. Gigabyte has been on top of BIOS updates, so support has been excellent. We also liked how the Master features real finned heatsinks and we very much like the new Gigabyte BIOS design.

Asus' Crosshair VIII Hero is our alternate option and we fully acknowledge it's just as good as the Gigabyte, so you can pick whichever board you prefer the look of. Both boards are exceptional and we feel there is no wrong choice to be made here.

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The Gigabyte X570 Aorus Xtreme is a great motherboard for those with deep pockets, with two possible alternatives being the Asus Formula and MSI MEG Godlike, of which we particularly like the feature-rich MSI Godlike.

The 16-phase Infineon digital VRM basically doesn't need any cooling, but Gigabyte has slapped on some real finned heatsinks for good measure. The backside of the board is dressed in a massive aluminum backplate that also helps extract heat and on the front side you're flat out finding any PCB under all the heatspeaders.

The upside to all of this is a cool running board, plus as a bonus, it's one of the few passively cooled X570 boards on the market. The feature list goes on for days, you get stuff like 10 Gigabit LAN, ESS Sabre HiFi, Wi-Fi 6, triple M.2 slots and more. There's also some nifty features such as Q-Flash Plus which allows you to update the BIOS without even installing a CPU.

It's a crazy overkill motherboard, but we love it all the same.

For picking the best MicroATX X570 board first know the options are extremely limited: it's either the Asrock X570M Pro4 or Biostar Racing X570GT. This came as an easy win for Asrock. The Biostar board which we have on hand features a horrible BIOS, the worst we've seen on a modern motherboard in years. The VRM is also rubbish, though the X570M Pro4 isn't exactly amazing here either.

Still, for those of you after a board supporting the mATX form factor, the Asrock X570M Pro4 for $185 is it.

A redeeming feature of this board is the absolutely massive VRM heatsink which weighs more than twice that of the current Intel box cooler. As you'd expect for the money it's not brimming with features, but you do get all the essentials.