The CPUs are 65w TDP so the some of the lower boards stick to these limits unless manually configured which they then cause the CPUs perform closer to the more expensive K sku's, people loved stuff like this in the old days where you could get a cheap CPU and set it up to perform like a higher end part.
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Intel B560 is a Disaster
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AMD has just said they have no interested in making cheaper CPUs:
https://www.techspot.com/news/89822-chip-shortage-forcing-amd-prioritize-flagship-cpus-over.html
Plus there are plenty of AMD B450/A320/A520 motherboards which lack proper heatsinked VRMs. I wonder if AMD is pushing to make Intel offerings look less VFM,by making sure the motherboard cost is overstated??
I am sure many on here,even with a Ryzen 5 5600X have bought £90~£200 motherboards. It seems weird when a big deal is all of a sudden made for paying £100ish for a B560 motherboard!
Personally I wouldn't buy a board with no heatsink on the VRM and would rather spend an extra 20 quid or so for this feature no matter which brand I was going with.
Atleast Intel got the B560 boards out the door for the rocket lake release, AMD took almost a year to release B550 after zen 2 came out and myself and many others were forced to with B450 instead as X570 was overpriced and overkill for what most users needed they then tried to shutdown support for 5000 series on those boards till the uproar caused them to backtrack.
Atleast Intel got the B560 boards out the door for the rocket lake release, AMD took almost a year to release B550 after zen 2 came out and myself and many others were forced to with B450 instead as X570 was overpriced and overkill for what most users needed they then tried to shutdown support for 5000 series on those boards till the uproar caused them to backtrack.
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That new video was out of date before they released it (HUB that is), ASRock released a BIOS update at the beginning of May for a good number of B560 boards that fixed the power limits. The video doesn't not mention which BIOS revision was being used, but it can't be the most up to date one, sadly this seems like poor testing and deliberate lack of clarity about the testing procedure. What irks me slightly as well it that budget folk will be using a cheap air cooler, not a 280mm/360mm AIO, the negative being that you get a nice air flow to the open VRM from the air cooler that you won't get from an AIO.
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Yep,and then it was shown the B550A which was a rehashed B450 had a degree of PCI-E 4.0 support. Yet AMD forced OEMs to remove PCI-E 4.0 support from B450 motherboards. AFAIK,the B550 chipset is made by ASMedia too - has anyone compared the chips in it to the B450 Promontory? I do wonder whether it's s derivative? Not seen any pictures of the naked chipset.
The speed throttling on many B560 boards isn't great, I discussed it quite a bit in a previous thread on the motherboards section. My cheap B560 mobo runs at 4.6-4.7ghz on 8 cores, after tweaking BIOS power limits.
B550 is less restricted, but can run hot with more than 8 CPU cores... The MSI B550M MORTAR runs pretty cool, but costs a bit more than the budget B550 boards.
B550 is less restricted, but can run hot with more than 8 CPU cores... The MSI B550M MORTAR runs pretty cool, but costs a bit more than the budget B550 boards.
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I have a H170 board without heatsinks cos it was £70.
You dont even get anything that cheap from AMD. £50 for a 2c/4t Pentium or Athlon doesn't need a beefy ultra cooled overclocking mobo - which is generally what all AMD boards are.
Its useful keeping an <£200 backup / media rig for when things die, and if you want it can even be used for multiboxing in online games.
Also somewhat fun to benchmark the latest games on it, and find out that most minimum specs are still overspecified.
Wanting to max out performance on such low end parts though would want better cooling, its very interesting that doing this has now made a comeback.
You dont even get anything that cheap from AMD. £50 for a 2c/4t Pentium or Athlon doesn't need a beefy ultra cooled overclocking mobo - which is generally what all AMD boards are.
Its useful keeping an <£200 backup / media rig for when things die, and if you want it can even be used for multiboxing in online games.
Also somewhat fun to benchmark the latest games on it, and find out that most minimum specs are still overspecified.
Wanting to max out performance on such low end parts though would want better cooling, its very interesting that doing this has now made a comeback.