I'm looking to purchase a motherboard that would be appropriate for my needs.
- It would be able to over-clock nicely
- SLI and Crossfire support doesn't matter
- m.2 slot
- Has a decent I/O
I was looking at the Asus Cross-hair IV but I know I won't use most of those features.
All I really care about is to keep a stable Over-clock without having to worry about anything being damaged.
This is going to be my Linux machine where I experiment with lots of VMs ,what I will be programming on for school , playing games and other things that I want to test out.
Anyone has any good recommendations for a decent motherboard?
Price Range 150 USD to 250 USD.
Asrock X370 Taichi
if you want one of the best boards the am4 platform currently has too offer.
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I was contemplating this but I'll look at a few more before I decide
Well yeah the Asrock Taichi and professional gaming are pretty much the best am4 motherboards wenn it comes to vrm design and such.
They also have a B-clock generator that eventually helps with overclocking memory.
If you want the best overclock experiance.
1: Asrock X370 professional gaming.
2: Asrock X370 Taichi.
3: Asus crosshair 6 Hero.
4: Aorus X370 gaming K7.
Those are pretty much the best X370 boards to get.
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Thanks, I am deciding for this because it is also a bit cheaper than the Formula six and I am aiming for great over-clocks. 
The Asus Crosshair 6 Hero is a great looking board,
with a decent amount of feutures, and contains all the overclocking bells and whisles you need.
However the Asrock X370 Taichi for example, exally has a better vrm implementation then the more expensive Asus board.
Asrock and Asus exally use pretty much the same main components in the vrm implementation.
However the Asrock Taichi has 6+2 phase design doubled to 12+4 phases,
powered by 40A Ti nexfets.
On which the Asus Crosshair 6 here, is a 4+2 phase design doubled to 8+4 phases powered by the same 40A Ti nexfets.
So basiclly you could say that the Asrock board has a higher current capability, and a cleaner more efficient power delivery for the cpu.
However wenn it comes to overclocking they are both great boards.
They have all the bells and whisles you need for that including the B-clock generator.
But i assuming that the Asus board is a bit more expensive mainlly because of the ROG branding.
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The Aorus X370 Gaming K7, basiclly also has all the bells and whisles you would need for overclocking, including the B-clock generator.
However this particular board has a 6+2 phase design, on which only the +2 phase rail is being doubled to 4 phases for soc voltage.
Which results in a 6+4 phase design, with 6 phases for cpu v core.
Those 6 phases are powered by 40A IR powerstages.
So that vrm implementation is also pretty decent aswell.
Not as great as the Asrock X370 Taichi, but in terms of overclocking,
it should overclock a R7 just fine aswell.
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I'm rocking the MSi Pro Carbon, decent, the bios is lacking for RAM overclocking. Stay away from B350's if you are going to push voltage. As far as I know, Samsung B Die is still the best for Ryzen, you pay for it though. I have no idea if the heatsink thing for M.2 does anything as I only bought one M.2 drive, but it seems to stay at a constant 50 C. Have a spot for one more, but I think there is a limitation of some sort if I run two M.2's. Maybe the second runs through a chip on the mobo, I can't remember. You using an eight core or higher? Make sure to get a quality heatsink.
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