AMD Zen 5 rumours

[edgedemon]

There were Intel motherboards as low as £150 which supported it. A basic Intel mini-ITX motherboard(DDR5 and equivalent of the A620) is available from around £100.

When you look at it that way, it is pretty bad then, but with AMD you get a better CPU so maybe there isn't the incentive for them to bother.
Just like AMD forced Intel to go above six cores,, maybe if Intel had a competitive CPU range the board partners would be forced to innovate again. I do agree with you in part, X870 is hardly a decent upgrade when you look at X670, very lacklustre step forward for what I'm sure will be a lot of money.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

When you look at it that way, it is pretty bad then, but with AMD you get a better CPU so maybe there isn't the incentive for them to bother.
Just like AMD forced Intel to go above six cores,, maybe if Intel had a competitive CPU range the board partners would be forced to innovate again. I do agree with you in part, X870 is hardly a decent upgrade when you look at X670, very lacklustre step forward for what I'm sure will be a lot of money.

A mate wanted to build a cheap AM5 mini-ITX system - no overclocking or tweaking,just RAM set to DOCP. The A620 motherboard cost just under £160 on offer and the Ryzen 5 7600 cost only slightly more!

Then you see ASRock make the ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 for £100~£120 which has a great VRM,etc - the mini-ITX pricing is taking the mickey. Apparently its getting worse - the A620 has been rebranded to B840.

 

[Rob_B]

Isn't the 840 potentially worse than some 620s?

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Isn't the 840 potentially worse than some 620s?

Some A620 motherboards unofficially support PCI-E 5.0 SSDs.

 

[JediFragger]

Then you see ASRock make the ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 for £100~£120 which has a great VRM,etc

That is a cracking board for the money tbf, if I hadn't gotten this bundle I'd have gone for one of those.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

That is a cracking board for the money tbf, if I hadn't gotten this bundle I'd have gone for one of those.

It's a great motherboard - there is also the Gigabyte B650M DS3H which is an alternative.