I am now thinking seriously about buying a new PC, so I would like some advice regarding motherboards. I suspect that all of the ones on the list below are very good, but which one would you consider to be NEO? I am targeting an AMD Ryzen 7 9800 X3D CPU and 64GB DDR5-6000 CL30 RAM, and my graphics card (courtesy of a very generous offer from a fellow AvSim member) is an RTX 4070 Super. I do not necessarily need the ultimate motherboard on that list. I just want a very good, solid, reliable performer that is recommended by the tech gurus around here. For the record, these are the options available from the outlet where I intend to purchase the PC.

• Asus Prime B850 Plus Wifi
• Asus TUF Gaming B850 Plus Wifi
• Asus PRIME X870-P Wifi
• Asus TUF Gaming X870 Plus Wifi
• Asus ROG Crosshair X870-E Hero
• Gigabyte B850 Aorus Elite Wifi 7
• Gigabyte X870 Eagle Wifi 7
• Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi 7
• Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7
• Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master

 

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If you don't need a whole lot of bells and whistles (and led lighting) also have a look at the MSI B850 choices even though your preferred vendor doesn't carry them.

I was gifted an Asus Maximus IX Hero for my current PC way back in 2019, so there is no going back. I want something fancy 

My recommendation would be the 

• Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7

I have used this same motherboard for last 3 generations.   I have the same specs - memory DDR4 (Motherboard excepts both) and 5090 videocard.  Never a problem.  Easy to configure and install.  Good luck on your build

I'm having good experiences with MSI Carbon (X670E and X870E) AMD boards.

I'd stay clear of the ASUS Prime boards.  See this video--mobo discussion starts about 1:45 in, where he specifically addresses the poor design of ASUS Prime boards: 

 

 

I've been very happy with the Gigabyte x870e Aorus Elite Wifi 7. with your specs, 4090 and ddr5 6000 64gb ram.

Glad MSI and ASRock were NOT on your list.

I’ve had good success with Gigabyte 870E Aorus and “so so” success with ASUS in recent builds.  

MSI has been very problematic with 0D error code ONLY on a warm reboot but works find on a cold boot … in addition the 10G onboard NIC stops working sometimes and other USB issues.

ASRock has reports (from many different sources) of killing AMD CPUs.

Out of those motherboards listed, I think your deciding factor will be how much Gen 5 support you need?  The 4070 Super is Gen 4. Will you be using multiple M.2 NVMe Gen 5 components (ex. Samsung 9100)?

I would recommend going with X870 if all gen 4 components, else go with X870E if you have gen 5 components.  The “E” brings addition lanes (2 chipsets) and I would recommend if you plan to do future upgrades to Gen 5 components.

MSI are the best in my opinion. https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X870-TOMAHAWK-WIFI

Agree, no prolems with the MSI MAG-X870, great price/value!

My ongoing MSI Saga:

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/cpu-ddr-error-on-x870e-godlike-but-somehow-booted-normally.410894/page-2#post-2360942

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/done-with-msi-garbage-motherboards.413599/#post-2345994

Sorry for the language, just very frustrated that my MSI $1200 motherboard could have so many issues.  Fortunately it’s not just me having issues with MSI per threads.

Spent some time on this build so it was disappointing to run into the "warm boot" issues:

This is all good from a cold boot per MSI Dashboard:

Then I get this after a warm boot (in this particular case, my Samsung 9100 M.2 NVMe drive wasn't detected):

Sometimes on a warm boot I'll get the CPU and DDR 0D error on the Dashboard (as in thread I linked).

As a work-around I don't warm boot, always power down wait 2 mins then power back on and all is good.  For a $1200 motherboard, MSI need to do better and my research shows that I'm not the only with this issue.  

I'm glad your MSI boards are working well for you and wish I had the same success, but unfortunately I don't hence why I can't recommend MSI.