Gigabyte B650M AORUS ELITE AX ICE Wi-Fi mATX AM5 Motherboard $299 Delivered @ Centre Com

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vid_ghost on 14/03/2025 - 20:16 centrecom.com.au (351 clicks)
Last edited 14/03/2025 - 20:27 by 1 other user

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Great AM5 board at a great price. Fastest boot times with Gigabyte and no need to worry about memory training issues. Set XMP/XPRO and thats it. nothing else.
Also according to the HUB YouTube review its got one of the coolest running VRM's.. this board is Vs 3 equivalent to the black version so rock solid reliable mine's been perfect for the past 6 months.

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  bazingaa on 14/03/2025 - 20:23

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  isn't this too expensive ? just saw a Z890 deal for $250, aren't there any equivalent cheap motherboards for AMD?

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    djmm on 14/03/2025 - 21:11

    White carries a premium. Honestly just pay a bit more and get a B850 from Asrock

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      Nom on 14/03/2025 - 21:30

      Do you mean a bit less ?

      ASRock have a B850 with a PCIe5 slot for $260 https://cplonline.com.au/asrock-b850m-pro-a-wifi-motherboard… - not sure why this Gigabyte board is $40 more ?

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        vid_ghost on 14/03/2025 - 21:44

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        6 heat pipes + large aluminum heat sink cooling a 12x2x2 VRM setup
        Vs
        Small aluminum heat sink cooling a 8x1x1 VRM setup

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          Nom on 14/03/2025 - 22:15

          @vid_ghost: Good info, thanks 👌

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        CHUNITHM Luminous on 14/03/2025 - 21:45

        +3

        Chipeset isn't everything, the Gigabyte in the post has a better VRM + heatsink, comes in white colour (seems to be pretty popular) and has some more quality of life features like the integrated IO shield.

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          Dienk on 14/03/2025 - 22:50

          @CHUNITHM Luminous: And yet is pcie 4.0. I would get a B850 for around the same price.

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          Nom on 14/03/2025 - 22:53

          @CHUNITHM Luminous: @CHUNITHM Luminous
          @vid_ghost

          Do the VRMs etc matter much for lower-end CPUs ? I'm imagining you can run more basic Ryzen CPUs fine on the Asrock board, vs trying to run a 170W Ryzen 9 ?

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            vid_ghost on 14/03/2025 - 23:12

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            @Nom: Asrock board is fine for all CPUs but may run a little hot with a 7950X or 9950X..

            Some people are complaining about failure rate being bad with Asrock on AM5 were it was rock solid on AM4.

            Having to use settings like contex restore in bios to speed up DDR5 memory training on cold boots to make the PC boot into windows faster sux
            MSI board do this too

            Only Gigabyte and ASUS have figured out how to manage DDR5 boot times to be inline with DDR4 without the need to enable any settings in bios.

            I value rock solid stability so i went with Gigabyte even though i exclusively used MSI boards for my AM4 platforms last time i had a Gigabyte board was with an intel i5 2600 CPU :) ha so far so good.

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              gtazn on 14/03/2025 - 23:50

              @vid_ghost: I've got an ATX-sized Asrock B850 in the system I built early this month. I cold boot it every morning, and it only takes 14 seconds to get to the login screen. The only bios settings I've touched is enabling the EXPO profile for my memory.

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    pedeyet762 on 14/03/2025 - 21:16

    MSI PRO B650M-A WIFI $178 also from centre com.
    This gigabyte has better vrm, a few more usb ports and supports gen5 on one of its m.2 slots.
    Msi has one more pcie 3 x1 slot.
    Otherwise both are same in terms of feature set (low-mid range).