AMD's New Budget Chipset A520 Released

Hah, glad it's not just me that hears Kermit.

+ PCIe 3.0 lanes for the chipset.
- I haven't seen any with two PCIe m.2 3.0 x4 slots. Where there's a second x16 slot on the motherboard, that's wired to x2 on the boards I've seen.
 
Phreaky said:
Yeah waiting on the ITX boards really, the B550 ITX are silly money for SFF type builds.
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Gigabyte and Asrock have one, don't know if you can buy them yet. No point waiting for Asus because it'll costs a bazillion dollars for no reason.

B550 ITX has its place if you're doing monster rigs, small form factor doesn't mean low power ;)
 
Just be nice to have them available to buy. Waiting on these to upgrade my dad's ancient Phenom II 940 system with a 3100 (running in my machine currently as 3300xs are not available anywhere) and then I'll upgrade minetmine to a 4600/5600 whatever they decide to name the new Zen3 ones.
Should be a massive upgrade for him. :)
 
Presumably the boost capability of the Ryzen chips is unaffected by this not supporting overclocking? In which case, what actual overclocking could materially affect things adversely, assuming that all-core overclocks don't give a significant advantage over normal boosting?

Assuming a mid-range next gen CPU and GPU, these could make a lot of sense for people on a budget only running a couple of SSDs.
 
Participant said:
Well I just don't see what could go wrong buying these vs. X570 etc. for a mid-range build with one or two SSDs.
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Some ppl want Gen4. Also, dont forget the boost performance is limited by VRM and CPU temperatures so you might find that the same CPU could boost further on a higher spec board. (not something we've tested yet)
 
ScottiB said:
Some ppl want Gen4. Also, dont forget the boost performance is limited by VRM and CPU temperatures so you might find that the same CPU could boost further on a higher spec board. (not something we've tested yet)
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Ok understood. So if the performance improvement from Gen 4 and superior VRMs is marginal with say a Ryzen 4700 and a 3070, the A520 could be a great budget proposition.
 
Interesting video from Buildzoid noting that you can actually overclock on (at least some of) these via the BCLK.


Possibly a mistake that will be patched out in future BIOS revisions, but cool nonetheless.
 
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