Originally Posted by
MrJim
If you want to keep a future upgrade path to an 8 core Ryzen CPU, and especially if you plan to overclock at all, I'd be very careful regard which B450 motherboard you go for. A lot of the B450 boards have quite poor VRMs that will get pretty hot & need a lot of airflow. The MSI B450 boards like the Tomahawk Max are supposed to have pretty decent VRMs though. Of course if you're going to stick with 6 core Ryzens & don't plan to overclock, the quality of the VRM is less of an issue.