@ChristopherFlannigan Great Review! Where did you get the info that the Chipset to CPU link is 3.0? Isnt it PCIE 4.0 between all CPU and A620 Chipsets? Would you recommend this or the bigger brother asrock b650i lightning for an 7800X3D?
Appreciate it! I wonder if the PCIe connection from the chip to the CPU is going to bottleneck? The missing CPU overclocking should not be an issue as memory overclocking is still available and more impactfull. I heard in another review the boards is limited - like all A620 chip base boards have to be - that it is limited to 80 something watts for CPU. So definitely some restrictions but for SFF the limit in power is hopefully negligible…
@@robinkonig5828 It's a bit bizarre. We're officially in the era where multi-GPU is dead outside of servers, so as long as your ITX case can accommodate a triple-slot card, you're golden. The only way to need more than that in the con/pro-sumer space is if you run a sound card or backup WiFi card (I suppose a 10GbE ethernet card for NAS is another niche use case, but they make perfectly good 10GbEUSB3/C adapters, so why bother with a PCIe card these days unless you're going to 25GbE+ ?) If you're doing homelab stuff on top of gaming and run a 4x M.2 adapter card or one of those OcuLink -> SAS/SATA splitters in addition (or beyond-10GbE networking), then I guess mATX makes sense since you need a 4th PCIe slot at that point. But for plane Jane gamers and boring users, ITX is enough now, especially since 4 total drives is a fairly high-end build at this point. I just put together a B650I Lightning WiFi and 7600X build to replace my Dad's 4790K on MSI Z97 Gaming 7 (ATX) rig. I couldn't source the Fractal Define 7 Nano, so I ended up building in the Mini (vs. his ancient Lian Li dual-PSU Super Tower). He pretty much just does office work and professional education recordings (teaching actuaries how to use databases--Oracle's toolchain mostly; because that's common--for their analysis work), but if he ever does pick up gaming and finds himself needing a dGPU, he's set. And it was a treat to build honestly. Only hitch was the fit of the EK 280 AIO (discontinued) because it couldn't be rotated to fit tubes down, only off the left or right, which made a couple of awkward twists in the fairly rigid tubing. I don't think we'll ever build another ATX+ machine unless we have a use case for a home server. But at that point, it's going in an SSI-CEB/EEB chassis. Heck, with some creativity, I could turn this board, an undervolted 7600, and a Define 7 Nano into a 9+ drive NAS even before getting a 16X HBA card (boot drive on SATA port, then 2 OCuLink x4 M.2 adapters, 2 OCuLink -> x4 SATA splitters, plus the remaining port -- wonder if the Gen 4 M.2 can do OCuLink x8, which would be 13 drives) so even that use case isn't well-justified for larger builds anymore.
My budget isn't tight, but in my country, this board is the only affordable AM5 mini itx board, so it will do. Probably going to have weak VRM and won't be able to effectively push the x800 CPU and above but again, this is a perfect build up to x500 CPU, maybe even x5003D AM5 CPU.
Do you mean the 7800x3d? That CPU would easily be run by this especially considering how efficient that cpu is. Most of the AM5 mobos can run even up to a 7950x with no problem.
@9 AFAIK most, including this Mobo, support all 7K series CPUs from AMD. There are some Mobo's that can't handle the 170W 7950X's but those Mobo's are way cheaper. Definitely every Mobo supports the 7800X3D, it isn't a hard CPU to handle at all.
Great contect and production once again
Thanks
perfect review. exactly what I needed to know.
No driver CD? What am I to use as a coaster now?
It auto enables the WiFi and prompts to auto download all the drivers
Does the rear usb c support an external monitor?
Very helpful video! Now I feel I can buy with confidence. Thank you Christopher
thanks for the overview, hard to find many for this mobo!
Beautiful review 👏👏👏
Thanks
can the included WiFi card be swapped like on the m.atx case?
Will there be any a620i itx pc build video?
@ChristopherFlannigan Great Review! Where did you get the info that the Chipset to CPU link is 3.0? Isnt it PCIE 4.0 between all CPU and A620 Chipsets? Would you recommend this or the bigger brother asrock b650i lightning for an 7800X3D?
Does it have 2x nvme sockets ?
it's a great board, now only 130 pounds ish, gonna buy two to replace my two asus b650e itx mobos
Why? Asus not good?
@@alandiegovillalobos one asus b650e itx = two asrock a620i, thats why😂
@ oh 🤣
Appreciate it!
I wonder if the PCIe connection from the chip to the CPU is going to bottleneck? The missing CPU overclocking should not be an issue as memory overclocking is still available and more impactfull.
I heard in another review the boards is limited - like all A620 chip base boards have to be - that it is limited to 80 something watts for CPU. So definitely some restrictions but for SFF the limit in power is hopefully negligible…
Does it support 4070
Could you review the Asrock B65I? Thank!!! These are very helpful
is this good for CM pn200P build?
New to messing around with CPU power usage. This MOBO doesn't support overclocking, does that also mean undervolting isn't possible? Thanks.
If I get a 990 pro with this mobo, I’ll get the full speed of the ssd ?
It's sad that £180 is considered 'budget.'
Mini ITX has always been more expensive
A620 micro atx is half the price
it's for niche market
it is half price of any mini itx on the market
@@robinkonig5828 It's a bit bizarre. We're officially in the era where multi-GPU is dead outside of servers, so as long as your ITX case can accommodate a triple-slot card, you're golden. The only way to need more than that in the con/pro-sumer space is if you run a sound card or backup WiFi card (I suppose a 10GbE ethernet card for NAS is another niche use case, but they make perfectly good 10GbEUSB3/C adapters, so why bother with a PCIe card these days unless you're going to 25GbE+ ?)
If you're doing homelab stuff on top of gaming and run a 4x M.2 adapter card or one of those OcuLink -> SAS/SATA splitters in addition (or beyond-10GbE networking), then I guess mATX makes sense since you need a 4th PCIe slot at that point.
But for plane Jane gamers and boring users, ITX is enough now, especially since 4 total drives is a fairly high-end build at this point.
I just put together a B650I Lightning WiFi and 7600X build to replace my Dad's 4790K on MSI Z97 Gaming 7 (ATX) rig. I couldn't source the Fractal Define 7 Nano, so I ended up building in the Mini (vs. his ancient Lian Li dual-PSU Super Tower). He pretty much just does office work and professional education recordings (teaching actuaries how to use databases--Oracle's toolchain mostly; because that's common--for their analysis work), but if he ever does pick up gaming and finds himself needing a dGPU, he's set. And it was a treat to build honestly. Only hitch was the fit of the EK 280 AIO (discontinued) because it couldn't be rotated to fit tubes down, only off the left or right, which made a couple of awkward twists in the fairly rigid tubing.
I don't think we'll ever build another ATX+ machine unless we have a use case for a home server. But at that point, it's going in an SSI-CEB/EEB chassis. Heck, with some creativity, I could turn this board, an undervolted 7600, and a Define 7 Nano into a 9+ drive NAS even before getting a 16X HBA card (boot drive on SATA port, then 2 OCuLink x4 M.2 adapters, 2 OCuLink -> x4 SATA splitters, plus the remaining port -- wonder if the Gen 4 M.2 can do OCuLink x8, which would be 13 drives) so even that use case isn't well-justified for larger builds anymore.
It's down to $140 in the US which I believe is about £110. AM5 board prices in general have come a pretty long way in the past year.
Is it true that Curve Optimizer is not availabe on this A620 board?
Yes
My budget isn't tight, but in my country, this board is the only affordable AM5 mini itx board, so it will do. Probably going to have weak VRM and won't be able to effectively push the x800 CPU and above but again, this is a perfect build up to x500 CPU, maybe even x5003D AM5 CPU.
Do you mean the 7800x3d? That CPU would easily be run by this especially considering how efficient that cpu is. Most of the AM5 mobos can run even up to a 7950x with no problem.
@@jadadpe3873 A620 has 65 W tdp limit so such processors will not run quite optimal. 7600, 7700 sure but not X variants
@@ZhuJo99 tje 7800x3d can run on this, just probably will lose like around 200mhz clocks, which is quite negligible
@9 AFAIK most, including this Mobo, support all 7K series CPUs from AMD. There are some Mobo's that can't handle the 170W 7950X's but those Mobo's are way cheaper. Definitely every Mobo supports the 7800X3D, it isn't a hard CPU to handle at all.