AMD: The first motherboards with the B650(E) chipset are official

The first AM5 motherboards based on the X670(E) chipset were announced a few months ago. However, manufacturers cover only the high-priced range with it. Now that the platform is available, the first mid-range boards are presented.

Already at the end of September they left Ryzen 7000 processor to include AM5 platform In the beginning. Until now upgrading to an AM5 system has been quite expensive as only the expensive X670(E) boards are now available. AM4 has already shown that the flagship PCH is often not absolutely necessary to get maximum performance from the system. The coming one should be similar B650(E) chipset Behavior You only have to compromise on one point: graphics cards and NVMe SSDs cannot be connected via PCIe 5.0 at the same time.

already have MSI, Asus and Co. Announced the first product based on the mid-range chip. Asus B650E is the flagship ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WiFi. The board offers a 16+2-phase power supply and two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots. There are also a total of 19 USB ports including Thunderbolt 4. Visually, the entire board is black, with individual RGB elements providing variety.

This is placed below ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WiFi has to do without some features. In comparison, a smaller power supply is used here. Additionally, there is only one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot. The line-up is complemented by the ROG Strix B650E-I, which comes in mini-ITX format. The manufacturer has announced a total of 13 circuit boards so far.

MSI Also showed several mainboard models with the B650 chip. There should be some improvement over the old mainboard. Among other things, according to the manufacturer, the cooling of the power supply has been improved to enable more stable performance. For this purpose, the existing cooling surface was enlarged. All models offered USB 3.2 Gen 2 × 2 Typ-C Up to and including 20 GBit/s 2,5G-LAN-Port. In the case of mini-ITX models, the chipset is cooled by a small fan.

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Arian Krasniki … part of the team since 2021 and mainly works on hardware components and other technological innovations. Current games on PC and consoles are also part of his passion. In addition to his work, Ariane is studying environmental engineering at RWTH Aachen University.

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