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hey what's going on guys welcome to

another video um I'm just following up

now the trend of

motherboard videos but I wanted to talk

about this one here because I think it's

um it's relevant today in 2023 more

relevant since um you know the am5

platform has come into the picture now

but if you've noticed those motherboards

are expensive this this here this chip

chipset is still expensive for even an

um

level uh motherboard or whatever chipset

um but there's still hope um this one

here is the cheapest b650 motherboard

that I have found on the internet I paid

$130 or around 130 bucks for this thing

um in the country where I live um and uh

according to ASRock it's a 6 plus 1+ one

power phas Dr Moss setup supports up to

120 watt CPU if you noticed um we have

60 watt

TDP uh CPUs we also have

105 TDP uh CPUs so they theoretically

should work just fine but for us they

like to

overclock this will come into question

this this will come into play Big Time

and we'll talk about that a little bit

later in the video where I actually uh

slap a 7 700 into this thing here um

supports up to 6400 Mega

transfers um per second memory we'll see

about that however there's a good thing

about this this chip this little

motherboard here and um let's scr over

that here real quick and we'll do an

unboxing and kind of view it but um this

is a pretty good shot so you get um five

gen um nvme on this slot here and fourth

gen on this one here really nice if you

ask me um so yeah that's great and you

get your uh argb um connector here at

least this little board for 130 bucks

comes with the stuff that you need the

only bomber is that it does not have

heat sinks on the m.2 slots you know but

you can buy something separate uh if you

if you wish to do so also it does not

come with post LED lights which it's a

bomber again you know you kind of need

this if you're going to be doing any

overclocking of any kind or just

troubleshooting also it does not have a

front panel type c connector anywhere on

the board so those are few things to

consider so let's go ahead and just open

up the board and take a closer look at

the mosfets and the controller to see if

this could be something worthwhile you

know spending your harder money

on all right guys so here we got the

motherboard let's go ahead and uh open

this thing

up and uh we're graded firstly with the

back plate the io plate and it is

cushioned which is really nice so

yeah we get two SATA cables one at a

90° m.2

screws get the

manual all

right get this thing out of the box

here okay so

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you know I don't want pull that noise so

here we go all right so here's the

little board um I already talked about

the uh you know the main features really

you know that stand out to me at least

but

um here it

is you know you got your Apen connector

here

uh like I said you don't have uh there's

there's a lot of features that are

missing from this entry level board but

that's okay uh if you just want to get

into am5 this is a good start here this

board in my opinion um so yeah you got

your two slots for memory here uh this

supports up to 96 GB okay with two two

dims

installed uh two fan headers here at at

the very top another fan header here and

you got another fan header down here so

that's a total of four fan headers um

also look at the uh chipset cooling uh

it's not the biggest but then again you

know for this level of power consumption

you don't really need something

something bigger than

that you got four SATA ports here at a

90°

angle you got your front panel

connectors

here okay USB

2.0 your argb down here

sound and you got your sound real Tech

down here as well so yeah this is your

your chips there and you got a nice

little Wi-Fi car there uh slot if you

want to have a

wireless uh hookup to this so yeah um

the heat sink on the vrm it's a little

anemic if that's what you want to you

know call it uh but um yeah you might we

might not need that uh to be bigger than

that you got display port

HDMI two USB 2.0 you got your bios

flashback button here here uh type- C

connector on the back of the board or IO

Shield or IO plate whatever uh USB 3.2

USB 3.1 here or I have to double check

but I believe there are 3.1 I'm not sure

and your 2.5

gbit um

Lan plus your audio out down here at the

bottom so okay uh now let's go ahead and

take this heat sink off

and take a look at the MOs fits used for

the CPU okay all right let's get into

that figured out that this is uh

the controller that is on the

motherboard this is made by richtech it

is a triple Channel pwm

controller uh not bad quality at

all also the uh MOS fits for the vrm uh

they are made by V they are the SIC 634

mosfets and these are 50 amp faces so

not bad not bad at all um I'm glad that

um ASRock did not cheap out on the power

delivery here um because 50 amps is

plenty of juice for even the 7950

X um but if you're overclocking that 120

watt um support may come into question

there but um other than that yeah these

are decent mosfets that they're using

the ASRock is using and uh good quality

controller by Rich Tech here so all

righty all right this is what the board

looks like once you take the uh heat

sink off and that's your pwm controller

there again like I said this is made by

richtech as you can see and here are

your

mosfets fet

mosfets 50 amps so we got a 50 amp face

here very nice I'm happy to hear that

because that'll be plenty of juice

plenty of uh uh Power for this little

motherboard so now let's get into the

BIOS and go through through a brief just

kind of like a quick sweep of the

features and what it looks like in there

okay all right guys so now we're diving

into the BIOS here we are at the main

screen and little information here but

that's

okay um when you get to PBO you will get

all these settings here so Auto enable

PBO

or if ASRock has implemented this thing

where um the curve

Optimizer it's all integrated into you

know different settings here for example

you can go with PBO plus TGM Max equals

85 Celsius and curve Optimizer minus 20

molts or 30 molts or 40 m molts my CPU

can handle up to 40 molts at

85c so that's the setting that I chose

this is not like MSI and ASRock where

you can set the um curve Optimizer and

the um AMD uh overclocking settings and

whatnot this is different so it's

already you know preset for you uh I

don't know how I feel about this but

it's it works I mean you know it it does

what you would expect so that's for that

um you can still overclock but it

doesn't have

a

um the way the ASRock has implemented

this is that you have to for example do

this and you have to type in the exact

overclock so from 3,800 to 5.6 if you

want to do that so you have to actually

type

5600 you don't get the multiplier

options so it's it's kind

of uh it's it's a little different I

want to say it's not bad it's just

different um memory however on the other

hand this thing had no no problem

loading XMP or Expo to

6,000 uh with you know the advertised

clocks I went ahead and

um um I did my own thing I did my own

set you know timings um to boost this

cuz I want to get better performance out

of it and I didn't have to touch the

voltage or anything like that is just it

just worked so as you can see

1.35 um um any advanced settings you

have your AMD overclocking options and

like I said if you go like even manual

overclocking you still have to put the

frequency like four digits 5600 and the

voltage um if you go to PBO here uh you

can enable it but it doesn't give you

any other options like curb Optimizer

where you can do it manually it doesn't

have that um which I you know I don't

know how to feel about that but but it

doesn't um it's not a reason to you know

say that the board is bad it's just it's

just a different setup

um uh here's the fan monitoring options

here so you know right off the bat as

soon as you switch to the tab it'll

bring you to the

window um where you where you see the

temperatures your CPU motherboard you're

currently set or using fans uh and also

the

pump uh like for example right here pump

speed if you go

up you can see it here okay um and you

can set everything up in one window you

don't have to go through you know

clicking this to get to that it's just

all in one window it's just just one tab

um and you can set up your fan curves

and all that other stuff you have uh

options for um full performance you can

customize it you can go manual um so

that that's pretty neat I like that uh

and then just the average stuff you know

um nothing major here so the BIOS is

pretty intuitive very easy to use um

especially for those just starting to

overclock um yeah it it's pretty

friendly I have to say that it's pretty

pretty friendly pretty uh easy to use um

now the it it does lack the advanced you

know

overclocking um feel to it you know for

those of us who do Advanced overclocking

or want to push the limits this is not a

board designed for that um like I said

this is a I don't want to say it's a

budget because there's nothing budget

about 130 bucks for a mother board

especially in 2023 I mean you can argue

with that but1 130 bucks is $130 so you

know I would say this is more like an

entry level

b650 um and it's great for you know for

uh what what you pay um everything

worked perfectly right out of the box

um my uh sorry that's the uh graphics

card they booting but everything worked

perfectly right out of the box my CPU

Ram um there was no hiccups it it does

take a little long to boot at first

because you know has to go through the

cycle of detecting your memory detecting

your CPU

GPU and all that other stuff so you'll

be looking at maybe U you know 30

seconds to a minute for the whole

booting process the first time the first

time you boot for that to to complete uh

but after that it's just like you saw

right now it just boots right up um

another thing that I wanted to mention

is that I I I was wrong about one thing

I was wrong about the LED lights it does

have post LED lights it they're located

at the bottom of the motherboard and

they're all one color

red so you will have to uh you will have

to remember you have to memorize what

each red light is uh so yeah that's

that's kind of like a a bomber there let

me get this out of the window it's kind

of not working there but uh anyway

that's all I have to say for this uh

this little ASRock B 650 motherboard is

for me it's well worth the money well

worth the price um no hiccups it works

perfectly as you would expect from even

a higher-end

motherboard

um I I didn't I didn't um have any

issues I want to mention this I didn't

have any issues with the CPU

overclocking or boosting or anything

like that um it was hovering around 120

watts and you know whatever uh but um no

throttling nothing like that it it just

it just works so uh great little

motherboard I would highly recommend

this for a

7600 um uh 7700 7900 CPU uh all with the

65 TDP so yeah great board um even I

will go as far as going with the 7600 X

or

7700x uh and especially a 7800x 3D

although if you if you're buying an

expensive CPU like that then I don't

know why you would you know you wouldn't

expend a little extra more money for a

better featured board

but you can use it on this especially

since the 7800 X3 is so power efficient

and uses very little power uh 50 60

watts at full load incredible but anyway

I'm going to leave the video here guys

this was just a quick unboxing and

review of the ASRock

b650 MH motherboard uh great little

board if you can find it for the right

price highly recommend it if you want to

get into uh B 650 and you look for

something that is Affordable yet not

crap so I'll leave it as that take care

I'll see you guys in the next

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