OK folks,
I'm in the process of upgrading my everyday rig, got a 9600x incoming, so I'm doing a bit of research on what motherboard to put it in. The last few rigs i've built have had MSI boards, I'm looking at a b650 board.
Looking at comments elsewhere, I've discovered that the CMOS battery cannot be replaced on a couple of these boards,
I've checked the manuals on these boards and it says so. MSI obviously designed this out of their b650 boards.
Now in 30 years of dealing with PCs I've very rarely changed the CMOS battery on a motherboard. Ive have probably only a couple of instances where I've had to do that.
I've had a look at a couple of gigabyte and ASUS boards. As far as I know, the ability to remove the CMOS battery is still there.
Having been on this forum for 17 almost 18 years, I know that the ability to remove the CMOS battery can make a difference between a working PC and a broken one, especially if the motherboard is out warranty and cannot be RMA’d
I'm not particularly happy that MSI have done this to their b650 motherboards, I'm not sure if they've actually done this to all of their current range of motherboards.
Even though I'm not happy I don't want this to sound like I'm ranting about it.
This thread is to make others here aware and to see what others here think of that.
I'm in the process of upgrading my everyday rig, got a 9600x incoming, so I'm doing a bit of research on what motherboard to put it in. The last few rigs i've built have had MSI boards, I'm looking at a b650 board.
Looking at comments elsewhere, I've discovered that the CMOS battery cannot be replaced on a couple of these boards,
I've checked the manuals on these boards and it says so. MSI obviously designed this out of their b650 boards.
Now in 30 years of dealing with PCs I've very rarely changed the CMOS battery on a motherboard. Ive have probably only a couple of instances where I've had to do that.
I've had a look at a couple of gigabyte and ASUS boards. As far as I know, the ability to remove the CMOS battery is still there.
Having been on this forum for 17 almost 18 years, I know that the ability to remove the CMOS battery can make a difference between a working PC and a broken one, especially if the motherboard is out warranty and cannot be RMA’d
I'm not particularly happy that MSI have done this to their b650 motherboards, I'm not sure if they've actually done this to all of their current range of motherboards.
Even though I'm not happy I don't want this to sound like I'm ranting about it.
This thread is to make others here aware and to see what others here think of that.
