B650M D3HP AX w/ DDR5, 7.1 Audio, Dual M.2, 2.5GbE LAN, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3
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Friday, September 27, 2024
By: Andrew
From: Vancouver
Strengths:
It booted first time with Ryzen 7600 and effortlessly enabled AMD EXPO to achieve stated RAM specs. Has remained stable throughout stress testing.
Updating to latest BIOS was easy through Windows and the interface is usable. Generally easy to install and configure.
Weaknesses:
It is missing core features of a B650 chipset such as undervolting. Things like manual clock adjustments, core voltage adjustments, and the like are completely removed from the BIOS. The PBO settings such as boost override and curve optimizer, though being present in the BIOS and configurable, had no discernable effect. Core voltage, PPT, and other metrics were always the same regardless of curve optimizer or boost settings. This means I can't undervolt with this board and the PBO settings are a placebo. The only thing that actually had an effect was to disable ECO mode which let the CPU achieve default speeds.
The PCIe "ez-latch" is a normal PCIe retaining clip with this big extension tab that sticks far out the side. It's made of flimsy plastic with a thin support, and it broke off the first time I ejected my GPU.
Additional Comments:
The PCIe retention clip is very flimsy and can break off with a normal GPU ejection force... hardly "ultra durable" like the branding suggests.
While I didn't expect beefy VRMs and fancy features on a budget board, the whole reason I bought B650 instead of the cheaper A620 was for the undervolting options which Gigabyte has disabled completely.
Decent board if you don't want to do anything other than drop in a cheap Ryzen processor and call it a day. In my opinion this board is not worthy of the B650 chipset since Gigabyte has disabled standard B650 features to hide the cheap power solution it uses.
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