moocow
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HWUB did a review of cheap B650 boards, TLDR version is that they are all crap.
Cheap AMD B650 Board Review
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Bond007
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For anyone that doesn’t watch the video, the main reason they term them all crap is the vrm…essentially fine for ryzen 5/7, but the vrm is insufficient to power ryzen 9 to its expected performance levels.
Really it all comes down to vendors claiming cpu support with no noted restrictions, but they all either dial power limits back (on ryzen 9), or the vrm gets too hot and then throttles the cpu.
They have an older video where they reviewed “budget” b650 closer to platform release and there was some good options then…but not all.
Really it all comes down to vendors claiming cpu support with no noted restrictions, but they all either dial power limits back (on ryzen 9), or the vrm gets too hot and then throttles the cpu.
They have an older video where they reviewed “budget” b650 closer to platform release and there was some good options then…but not all.
moocow
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While it's true that they are crap for the R9 (and apologies for not pointing that out at the start), the problem is that some user may buy it and expect them to work fine when upgrading later down the road.
Bond007
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Agree!
Bond007
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If anyone cares, here is the old “budget” b650 roundup they did. I assume a lot of the testing is likely not valid now with bios updates (initial teething pains with ram speeds and boot times), but the vrm and board laying info is all valid. This review, a good sale, and a desire to stick with mATX are what pushed me to the riptide.
They carried a gigabyte board (ds3h) forward from this review to the new review (that Moocow has in the OP)so there is a bit of a baseline to link the 2 videos.
They carried a gigabyte board (ds3h) forward from this review to the new review (that Moocow has in the OP)so there is a bit of a baseline to link the 2 videos.
Shadowmeph
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s oI glanced at the list on his video and noticed the MSI PRO B650M-A WiFi ProSeries and was thinking of crap that's my board but I am thinking ( will have to watch thisvid ) that it is is one of the ok boards
Marzipan
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if you are a performance enthusiast you wouldn't be buying a cheap B650 mobo...they're totally fine for almost everyone else. also,'cheap' and Ryzen 9 don't go in the same sentence either, unless it's an Z670E, LoL!
That wasn't necessarily the case for the previous gen though. Choosing a B550 board was more about sacrificing extra lanes to save a few bucks. Quality wasn't for the most part being sacrificed solely based in chipset, there were many B550 boards which competed well against X570 boards especially in VRM quality.
Marzipan
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true. AMD did fragment their B650 chipset though with the base model and then the B650E. it sucks that they damaged the budget options so badly though.
