High wattage warning on every Mobo I pick for 7700

[I kill Bunnies]

Greetings. PC parts picker is throwing up high wattage warnings for every Mobo I select with a 7700 as CPU. Can someone please recommend an ATX mobo? I don't intend to over clock and cheaper the better.

 

[Tetras]

Eh? A 7700 should run fine on pretty much anything. You sure it isn't flagging the graphics?

The cheapest ATX board on OC is the B650 Eagle AX, which is fine, but LAN is only 1Gb and the 2nd M.2 is only 2 lane.

B650 Tomahawk is a decent spec, 6x SATA, 3x M.2, higher-end sound with SPDIF, lots of USB ports (Eagle has mostly USB 2 ).

The ASRock X870 Pro RS did decently well in HUB's X870 roundup and has USB4 and PCI-E 5.0 graphics.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03573) = £124.99
• 1 x MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-375-MS) = £160.00
• 1 x Asrock X870 Pro RS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03308) = £209.99

Total: £502.97 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

 

[LePhuronn]

You need to choose a more powerful PSU in your parts list. Motherboards themselves don't contribute a large amount to power draw so something else in your spec is drawing too much for your chosen PSU.

 

[rare]

Ignore pc parts picker. What is the rest of your specification?

 

[tamzzy]

high wattage warnings

I don't intend to over clock and cheaper the better.

did you spec a 350w psu?

 

[hornetstinger]

No problem with my 7700 and asrock Pg riptide 650e

 

[I kill Bunnies]

OK looks like I was worried about nothing, thanks guys.

 

[humbug]

OK looks like I was worried about nothing, thanks guys.

Hum? What happend?

 

[I kill Bunnies]

I'm assuming it's just a generic warning as it's a hight wattage chip. I have two parts lists, one based on a 14700 which is fine and then the 7700 which has the high wattage warning whatever I do.

 

[LePhuronn]

Assuming you've selected a decent PSU, that sounds like a bug in the part picker, because there's no universe where a 7700 is a more hungry CPU than a 14700.

My conspiratorial brain might even think this warning is intentional to sway people away from AMD parts thinking there's a problem.

 

[LePhuronn]

I've just had a play around out of curiosity and I don't see any "high wattage" warnings. I slapped together a 7700X and a RTX 4090 and no warnings come up at all.

There is an "estimated wattage" panel however. Are you sure you're not just mis-reading that?