After testing a grand total of 56 motherboards, all using AMD's B650 chipset, it's safe to say we've tested a lot of them, and we are in a solid position to tell you which ones you should buy.
Zen 5 Ready: AMD B650 Motherboard Buying Guide
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yRaz
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There is (usually) nothing wrong with Asrock products. They mostly expect the buyer to be technically inclined and save money on support, documentation, packaging and similar things. They are a pain to deal with if you don't know anything about tech which is why, in my experience, they tend to get a bad rap.
I've been buying their boards for years and will continue to do so.
Yep, they are good now. But Asrock had a weak phase in the last years (like Steve said in the article) and some of their problems we're not driven by the weak PC market in the COVID years. They occured due to mediocre products. But now they are back with surprisingly solid boards for AM5. Good for them and good for the consumer.
Asus on the other hand (which carved out Asrock - they are 100% owned by Pegatron nowadays) came up with some unusually weak budget and midrange boards for AM5. The Prime boards especially perform weaker than the competition. Asus did a lot of cost cutting because of COVID and the problematic PC market but I expect them to get better products with newer chipsets for AM5 and Intel 1851. Hopfully, the same applies to MSI, which also got weaker in the 200-250$ price range (on average) - also mostly due to cost cutting measures.
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I had over 200 shut downs . The bad technician left cables (PSU cables , mainly PCI-E ones) over the RAM sticks touching them . I moved the cables away and issue is gone . I am very thankful to Asrock who made the mobo which saved my PC . It s an awesome mobo .
The tech shop assembled my PC for free . But the guy was apparently not skillful .
The tech shop assembled my PC for free . But the guy was apparently not skillful .
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I have the ASUS ProArt 650 in my ML rig and it is an absolute beauty for CUDA across dual GPUs.
maestro0428
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They are the best value/performance/features on the market. Used their boards for over a decade (as well as others) and with well over 100 mbs from them, I only had one fail... Ive had more boards from Gigabyte and Asus fail (GB bios/uefi sux anyway). I did buy an used Asus board recently and its still kicking, but its doesn't have good features for what its msrp was. I couldn't find a comparable Asrock board, or I would have bought that.
Hello steve
thank you very much for your work on the b650 and x670 boards
I have a question
should I buy asrock b650 steel legend
Will it be enough?
I am especially interested in being prepared for PCIe 5.0
I can expand my budget 20% more to get asus rog strix b650E-F or asus tuf gaming x670E plus
These last 2 cost the same in my town.
thank you very much for your work on the b650 and x670 boards
I have a question
should I buy asrock b650 steel legend
Will it be enough?
I am especially interested in being prepared for PCIe 5.0
I can expand my budget 20% more to get asus rog strix b650E-F or asus tuf gaming x670E plus
These last 2 cost the same in my town.
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