Anyone actually have a 650 or 650E Board yet?

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They're on sale and shipping, but reviews seem to be few and far between across the board. In particular I've seen absolutely nothing on the ASUS B650E ROG Strix board, which looks pretty ideal (for me) on paper.

What are people seeing on this front and anyone have any good/bad preliminary experiences with any of these boards?
 
Yeah in looking the Strix or the Gigabyte Aorus Master B650e both look pretty enticing price per feature set compared to the x670e's.
Im curious about peoples reviews.
 
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The b650m plus wifi is doing well for me. The board looks good and has pretty decent on board equipment including pcie 5.0 nvme. The bios is pretty decent and has everything you'd expect where you'd expect it. Performance wise my 7700x is doing slightly better than what I've seen reported (20135/2005 cinebench r23 stock pbo). Messed around a little with manual over clocking just for fun and noticed a little voltage droop. When setting 1.3v, it dips to 1.25 under all core load. Not a huge deal and I didn't mess with any vdroop settings yet. System feels very quick.
 
I know AMD promised "$125" 650 boards. While I'm not actually expecting to see those boards, its kind of baffling that even at my local Microcenter I can't find a single 650 board under $230 bucks. That seems a bit extreme. Am I way off here? I'm not saying we need to have $40 motherboards like in the old days, but to be over a $100 over the minimum promised seems a bit much.
 
OFaceSIG said:
I know AMD promised "$125" 650 boards. While I'm not actually expecting to see those boards, its kind of baffling that even at my local Microcenter I can't find a single 650 board under $230 bucks. That seems a bit extreme. Am I way off here? I'm not saying we need to have $40 motherboards like in the old days, but to be over a $100 over the minimum promised seems a bit much.
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Yeah pricing sucks. I got the $230 board, but I would've never considered it if I didn't score the free 32gb kit from microcenter during that promo. That being said, last I checked microcenter is doing $50 off ryzen cpu motherboard bundles instead of $20.
 
OFaceSIG said:
I know AMD promised "$125" 650 boards. While I'm not actually expecting to see those boards, its kind of baffling that even at my local Microcenter I can't find a single 650 board under $230 bucks. That seems a bit extreme. Am I way off here? I'm not saying we need to have $40 motherboards like in the old days, but to be over a $100 over the minimum promised seems a bit much.
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It's a new platform, plus everything is expensive.. eggs, milk, bread, and MOTHERBOARDS 🤣
 
Newegg had some decent combo's yesterday... I had a TUF X670E and 7600X on order from amazon.. got the proc and was just waiting on the board to ship but then stumbled upon a newegg deal for 7700X and Asrock B650E Steele Legend for a pretty solid price.

I didn't really care whether it was X670E or B650E as long as I had PCIE5 for NVME and graphics available and onboard network/sound. I don't do a ton of i/o otherwise so worked out for me. It will be my first Asrock board, I hope it's not a pile of crap. I'm usually a stickler for going Asus but even I'm having a hard time with their over the top pricing.
 
I put together the combo I mentioned earlier and while the BIOS is definitely not what I'm used to as far as what's available in Asus land it's definitely a solid install so far with my stability testing. The BIOS is competent enough I guess, just feels sparse.

No real long post times except for the first one which, if you read manuals, is stated.
 
CoreStoffer said:
Yep, all I want is a review of the Asus B650E Rog Strix - either the E or F model. :(
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I ordered the B650E-F for my work pc since it has a lot of slots on it, can see how it compares to my gene I guess lol. I doubt it'll be much of any difference since I'll run the CPU stock.
 
The ASUS B650E-E is the one I'm interested in. Normally I lean toward MSI, but I don't think they have an E model available now or on the horizon. For a supposedly forward thinking chipset, I'm not going to skip out on PCIE 5 support even if it doesn't add much performance down the line.
 
Someone finally reviewed the B650E-E ROG STRIX. Seems like it's everything I wanted...even if the price is still a bit high. Hopefully once the "3D" processors start hitting we'll see a reduction in prices. Even $50 off would make a big difference.

 
Microcenter is offering a $20 discount when you buy the B650E-F with a processor. Not the greatest discount ever, but it's something.
 
still plugging away with my asrock b650e steel legend and 7700x i got from newegg as a combo... doing quite well, some benchmarks with PBO enabled TJ Max limited to 85C and EXPO on 6000 Mhz have me within 1% of my 13600K in a few benchmarks, seems quite stable and performant.
 
I've had 2 b650 boards and both are totally fine for my uses. An asus b650m tuf wifi with a 7700x and a gigabyte b650m aorus ax with a 7950x.
 
Happy with the B650M Aorus Elite AX; beefy VRM, all the features I want (including sane PCI-E slot spacing), cheap enough from MicroCenter (with $25 coupon and $50 bundle discount)
Only thing that sucked is they are currently Rev 1.0 boards with crap MediaTek wifi (Rev 1.X will have Intel AX210), but it was simple enough to swap out the MediaTek for an AX210 on my own.
 
With the 3D chips inbound, I'm starting to prep my build list. I've got things narrowed down to the ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F Gaming WiFi and the Gigabyte B650E AORUS Master. As someone who has stuck with MSI for the last 15 years, I don't really know what to expect from either. Both brands are typically well respected. Anyone have any insight on one vs. the other?
 
Domingo said:
With the 3D chips inbound, I'm starting to prep my build list. I've got things narrowed down to the ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F Gaming WiFi and the Gigabyte B650E AORUS Master. As someone who has stuck with MSI for the last 15 years, I don't really know what to expect from either. Both brands are typically well respected. Anyone have any insight on one vs. the other?
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Why those two and not an MSI?

*Asus seems to be pretty fast/thorough about Bios and ME microcode updates, for Intel.
 
Domingo said:
With the 3D chips inbound, I'm starting to prep my build list. I've got things narrowed down to the ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F Gaming WiFi and the Gigabyte B650E AORUS Master. As someone who has stuck with MSI for the last 15 years, I don't really know what to expect from either. Both brands are typically well respected. Anyone have any insight on one vs. the other?
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Skip that particular Gigabyte. The way they configured the bandwidth sharing is dumb:

CPU:
  1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, supporting PCIe 5.0* and running at x16 (PCIEX16)
    * Actual support may vary by CPU.
    * The M2B_CPU and M2C_CPU slots share bandwidth with the PCIEX16 slot. When the M2B_CPU or M2C_CPU slot is populated, the PCIEX16 slot operates at up to x8 mode.
    * For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
Chipset:
  1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, supporting PCIe 4.0 and running at x4 (PCIEX4)
  2. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, supporting PCIe 4.0 and running at x2 (PCIEX2)
 
Good to know! The ASUS is $50 cheaper and is at least a brand I've been happy with for other things.
 
Do the B650E boards have annoying chipset fans? I'm planning a build and the Asus Strix B650E-I seems to be the board that ticks all the boxes for me.
 
Domingo said:
Good to know! The ASUS is $50 cheaper and is at least a brand I've been happy with for other things.
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Asus also has a $50 more expensive option. I didn't look closely though, to see what improvements it might have.
 
So I'm torn between the ASRock B650E PG Riptide and the GIGABYTE B650 AORUS Elite AX. Both are around the same cost $230'ish and have an near-identical feature set for what I want:
  • PCIe 5.0 M2s, with heatsinks
  • Wifi
  • 6 channel direct (via reassignment is fine)
The only difference is the Riptide has PCIe x16 5.0 and the Aorus does not. It would normally seem like the ASrock is an easy pick, but I can't help but shake the perception that ASRock is a cheap brand. My gaming PC is a Gigabyte Z170 from 2016 and its still rocking perfectly.

I know that it will be years before PCIe x16 5.0 is remotely relevant. Still, am I wrong? Is the Asrock brand fine now?
 
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