Zen 5 Ready: AMD B650 Motherboard Buying Guide

I like foxes said:

My mobo is Asrock .It s inexpensive but works great .

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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.

yRaz said:

There is (usually) nothing wrong with Asrock products.

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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.

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 .

AM5 boards are still quite expensive. 7800X3D and other CPU prices have dropped but they have hardly budged (at least for my limit). Then you also need RAM for ~100 USD and so I'm still sticking with my olden 5600x.

I would like more boards with distinctive colors. Glass cases exist for a reason.

I have the ASUS ProArt 650 in my ML rig and it is an absolute beauty for CUDA across dual GPUs.

Do you mind sharing the table with all the MOBO and info as published in the Youtube video?