@@cpt.phantom902 I also have this mobo in the worst version (from gigabyte) with the 5700g & gtx 1650 and temps are fine, highest while gaming is around 75, of course I cannot push that hard since 1650 is obsolete for new games but for last gen is decent.
Had a few a520s for budget builds and you get a lot for your money there but as you quite rightly said temper your expectations and don’t put an expensive cpu on it unless there is no other option
im thinking about getting a r9 5900x for gaming, would the a520m-plus II asus do the work well? it seems to be a better version of regular a520 motherboards, it does have VRM dissipators, and overall seems pretty good And since i wont be putting this r9 5900 under heavy stress, it shouldnt be a problem do you think this motherboard would do a great job?
I just bought this motherboard after looking at your review in 2024. paired it with a gigabyte a520m ds3h, ryzen 5500 stock cooler, gtx1060, 500gb kingston nv2 and 16gb 3200mhz ram... this thing is snappy! easily handles Aliens: fireteam elite at 90fps on medium settings 2x aa 1080p, fortnite is a breeze, warzone a stable 70fps... gave this PC to a friend who has 42" LED TV 1080 60hz as his desktop screen, and i gotta say, what a low budget quick PC! sure it's pcie 3.0, but he doesnt notice it. temps on idle - cpu 37c gpu 44c vrm 32c load- cpu 60c gpu 73c vrm 48c my friend is super happy, we can finally play games together without lag! was super cheap as well to build.
Of course, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a low TDP (65watts) unlike the Ryzen 9 (105watts), consuming less energy translates to less effort on the VRM. Excellent choice of components!!!
@@sensei9931 no it does not! if you want a cheap wifi board look at the MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI, has the b550 chipset, can handle a 5800x3d, good VRM cooling etc... or if you want to, get this a520 board and add a wifi card or usb wifi.
I am keeping my B450 motherboards because they have 1 advantage over most if not all B550 motherboards, they are compatible with every AM4 cpu. (I know B550 motherboards have other advantages.)
Awesome 👍. Doing something similar. An MSI A520M Pro VH on a Ryzen 5 5600X. I also ordered 20 VRM Mosfet heatsinks on Amazon for $7. Hopefully it handles it well and beats my 3500X on my B350
After buying this mobo, I am feeling guilty because it's vram cooling is too bad and it has only 4 pin power connector. For the same price, I can buy Gigabyte b450m s2h which has too good vram cooling and 6 pin power connector. I made huge mistake, lol
I am upgrading my MAME core system. Since it is a MAME, I didn't feel the need to buy the extreme gear. However, I bought this chipset, a Ryzen 5 5600G and probably will be getting some decent DDR4 memory.
Though as you can clock most 2400 1.2v memory to 3200 at 1.35v there probably isn't much need to swap memory, and that's on an ASRock A320M board that just had the APU swapped from 2200g to 5600g.
Thanks for the good info. I am surprised that this is being marketed as a gaming platform. It's not really up to the task. I bought it for $49 and amusing it as a Linux server with a stripped down distro and an NAS. The whole rig cost me $160 and is perfect for the task.
I got that exact A520M-HVS it is similar looking I got Ryzen 5 5600G on it but have you seen the other flaw of the motherboard such as even bigger closeness of your Ram Modules to CPU Chip that with thermal radiator and stock cooler is even closer heat to you Ram Modules my CPU temperature is on idle from 33 - 34 C when I'm in windows online browsing but because I have put my fan to full performance, constant performance to 48 -50 C tops when I do whole lot of stuff, I'm a bit older guy I'm no gamer and as you know 5600G has integrated graphics so you can play all but on 1080p with a normal settings in fact. Not to elongate the story I much more don't like that my DDR 4 Ram modules are even closer then VRAM you mentioned. That's to me bigger problem. Just watch out not to damage DDR 4 Modules with overheating of the CPU, I'm currently more concerned for that not to happen. RAM Slots way to close to chip, thermal radiator and cooler. So when you said you made 120 C on your CPU I was like :O because you could have melted damaged DDR Ram. I have Kingston Fury Beast 16 GB 3200 it's on 3.600 it can go to 3.733 Mhz I don't wanna push it that much the deal is I play e-Football or even don't play but I can Run all those games I setup 4GB or Ram to be used for iGPU thise days I will buy another Kingston Fury Beast 16 GB for like 50$ put it in another ram slot and amp my iGPU Memory on 8 GB and I can play even better If i wanna play when it starts fucking me up so I can't play no longer all I will just buy a graphic card and prices will be even lower for GPU's so I will be fine. 😁
I mean, if you want to go full on ghetto and you have spare fans laying around you could cool the VRM and the chipset. xD No, but seriously, as you can find really good B450 boards for around the same price these, barren boards these should be similarly priced to the old AM1 boards (30-50$). Boards like those make a lot of sense when you just want to build something simple. Like a Webserver/NAS/officePC. I mean back in the days I built a AM1 5350 that hosts tons of web services. It's still alive and kicking, works great. I use it mostly to get rid of monthly fees for slack, mail server, web server, ftp server, web storage/backup, version control etc. 8TB is generous. These things require very little performance, out of CPUs and boards, especially if you are at most 4 people connected to the server.
Well I was trying to do a ghetto build with a 2200g I have spare, but the current second hand prices mean I might as well buy new as people have gone crazy even on 5 or 6 year old hardware.
@@mrljgibson It's truly a sad time for PC builders these days. It's hard to find really good value. I have only succeeded with that by digging in my apartment complex electronics recycling. I got hold of a whole system Intel I7 6700K, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, GTX1050Ti... Somebody threw it out because the PSU fan was noisy.😓
@@PixelShade well I bought a second hand system a few years back, ASRock A320M with 2200G, 120GB SSD, 8GB 2400 RAM. Now it's a 5600G, NVME 256GB, 1TB SSD, 32GB 3600 RAM, 5TB external drive. All found as cheap deals as I've gone along. It will do me for a while, it runs plenty of games perfectly well. When GPU prices are way down I'll add a GPU. I nearly added one recently as the RX 6600 XT is okay, but I decided I'll want a new PSU and GPU next, if I don't just wait for AM5 to become cheaper, as this system perfectly liveable at the moment.
My problem right now is that some parts I wanted are not in stock, but they are present in prebuild that uses this exact board (Asus prime a520m-k). Figured it might be worth a shot to get prebuild with this board and just upgrade mobo later on if I need to. Wish OEMs would have options with b550, but the ones I am looking on don't. Very helpful video, because now I know this board should be usable and arent going to explode on me on 6/8 core zen2.
I have a Ryzen 7 5700G (that I'm not using as APU anymore because I got a slightly better GPU). My Gigabyte B450M Aorus Elite died and now I need to emergentially buy another motherboard because, besides gaming, I also need the PC for work and study. So I was thinking about getting a A520M K V2 on sale since any B450M or B550M is currently 50% more expensive here. I'm afraid of thermal throttle and parts degradation though.
I've built dozens of A520s using the 65W G series Ryzen CPUs and never got them anywhere near thermals in 48 hour torture tests. Honestly the best bargain boards for those. Definitely B550 for the 105W and above though. FYI I run a 5700G on this exact board as a relatively highly strung office build. 2x 120 mm fans and a Freezer 7 is all it needs
@@Chr1S1986 i bought a ryzen 5 5600g and msi a520m a pro, do you think i made a mistake here and what's the max CPU is this mobo can handle, and what GPU do you recommend for it max ? thx in advance man
@@ThePriceIsNeverRight definitely not a mistake, unless you wanted mega RGB or PCIE v4, neither of which are important for most people! Your 5600G will max out the power delivery when the iGPU is loaded (approx 97/98W total), so a GPU will make a difference if you're gaming or using it a lot. You'll be fine with anything below a 3070 or equivalent spec. Above that you'll find you might start to CPU limit on low resolutions if you're chasing super FPS numbers. Whilst people moaned about it, a 4060 is a brilliant buy for that combo and it'll run cool under load, plus it's cheaper than the 3060 because everyone hated it (for valid reasons, but casual gaming will be fine)
i have a a520m with a rx 6600 and only getting 40fps max on low graphics on fh5 how could I get more? Even assetto only getting like 25-30 fps on shutoko
@@mrljgibson and i didn’t how to overclock without frying my cpu so I was lowkey scared to do it. Hopefully with that i5 12600k I won’t have to overclock
@@CoyoteSwapEverything Well I'd start with the memory speed, I bought 32GB of 3600 1.35v memory for about $80 and as long as you just leave the voltage on auto it's very happy to run it at 3600. That makes a big difference over the old 2400 1.2v memory, which I tried to overclock with the old memory but it decided not to boot the next day, I'd bother about CPU overclocking after that, but you need to work up slowly and keep an eye on temperatures under load, maybe with a better fan fitted, currently I'm on a stock fan so I haven't played with that yet.
I would buy only for one reason just to install a nas quadcore home server. Thinking of it... they are not that bad for such use waiting to response your request that's it, that will be the duty it can do perfectly, without any fire hazard.
@@seltersss I bought pre-build pc with i3 13100f and rtx 4060 in my country like 600 dolar because the other pc have a520 motherboard without pcı gen4 support. But this one I bought have it. In story game like witcher 3, it looks like I dont lose any performance but like cs2 or other higher fps games, this i3 doesn't use all rtx 4060.
Maybe next time when bench marking a chipset, don't select the cheapest and stupid MB. I have ASRock A520M Pro4, with 6+2 phase passively cooled with heat sink VRMs. Performs just like B550 in benchmarks.
"He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could do it that he forgot to ask whether he should he do it." You should do some more odd pieces like this on occasion. Torture components that never asked for or deserved such treatment.
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Running this exact board (latest bios) with 5700g, Deepcool Gammix cooler, 3060ti FE, 16gb Patriot ram for mainly gaming use. No problems whatsoever :)
Wow may I ask what games you play ?
temperature doesn't rise quickly ?
@@cpt.phantom902 I also have this mobo in the worst version (from gigabyte) with the 5700g & gtx 1650 and temps are fine, highest while gaming is around 75, of course I cannot push that hard since 1650 is obsolete for new games but for last gen is decent.
I bought it recently, how does it still work a year later? Do you still have the same GPU?
For just apu naa with GC maybe a bit, granted you don't go crazy and install a 90 series GC@@cpt.phantom902
Had a few a520s for budget builds and you get a lot for your money there but as you quite rightly said temper your expectations and don’t put an expensive cpu on it unless there is no other option
Do you think is that good for gaming with 5600g?
@@GregMadman yes I've used a 3900x, 5600g, and 5700x in a520 works fine.
im thinking about getting a r9 5900x for gaming, would the a520m-plus II asus do the work well? it seems to be a better version of regular a520 motherboards, it does have VRM dissipators, and overall seems pretty good
And since i wont be putting this r9 5900 under heavy stress, it shouldnt be a problem
do you think this motherboard would do a great job?
@@Akemi727 no, just no. Hope you didn't do it. Even some b550s don't cut it when you talk about ryzen 9.
Thinking about a 5700g
Should this run fine?
I live in India tho, very hot here
No VRMs have been harmed during the making of this video.
This video helped with some questions I had, thank you!
The reality of the question because of the pricing and lack of pcie 4.0 is not A520 or B550 but A520 or B450.....I'm struggling to choose.
I just bought this motherboard after looking at your review in 2024. paired it with a gigabyte a520m ds3h, ryzen 5500 stock cooler, gtx1060, 500gb kingston nv2 and 16gb 3200mhz ram... this thing is snappy! easily handles Aliens: fireteam elite at 90fps on medium settings 2x aa 1080p, fortnite is a breeze, warzone a stable 70fps... gave this PC to a friend who has 42" LED TV 1080 60hz as his desktop screen, and i gotta say, what a low budget quick PC! sure it's pcie 3.0, but he doesnt notice it.
temps on idle -
cpu 37c
gpu 44c
vrm 32c
load-
cpu 60c
gpu 73c
vrm 48c
my friend is super happy, we can finally play games together without lag! was super cheap as well to build.
Hello does this motherboard have wifi?
@@sensei9931 No, you have to buy an adapter separately.
Of course, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a low TDP (65watts) unlike the Ryzen 9 (105watts), consuming less energy translates to less effort on the VRM. Excellent choice of components!!!
@@sensei9931 no it does not! if you want a cheap wifi board look at the MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI, has the b550 chipset, can handle a 5800x3d, good VRM cooling etc... or if you want to, get this a520 board and add a wifi card or usb wifi.
i can get a decent a520 with ryzen 5500 and 2 8gb kit for $200 these days
I am keeping my B450 motherboards because they have 1 advantage over most if not all B550 motherboards, they are compatible with every AM4 cpu. (I know B550 motherboards have other advantages.)
A lot of B550 are compatible with all AM4 Ryzen CPUs.
B450 is a good board but i wouldn't buy one today
A520 + 5600g or B550 + 5600g, which is better cost to performance ratio?
Never go for A520. Go for B450 or B550.
Video said..
Awesome 👍. Doing something similar. An MSI A520M Pro VH on a Ryzen 5 5600X. I also ordered 20 VRM Mosfet heatsinks on Amazon for $7. Hopefully it handles it well and beats my 3500X on my B350
After buying this mobo, I am feeling guilty because it's vram cooling is too bad and it has only 4 pin power connector. For the same price, I can buy Gigabyte b450m s2h which has too good vram cooling and 6 pin power connector. I made huge mistake, lol
is it working well ?
Im planning to use this motherboard with Ryzen 9 5900x will it works without any issue?
this is ok only for an office's pc that will not run something too heavy
I am upgrading my MAME core system. Since it is a MAME, I didn't feel the need to buy the extreme gear. However, I bought this chipset, a Ryzen 5 5600G and probably will be getting some decent DDR4 memory.
Though as you can clock most 2400 1.2v memory to 3200 at 1.35v there probably isn't much need to swap memory, and that's on an ASRock A320M board that just had the APU swapped from 2200g to 5600g.
Is this matx or atx??
Would the B550 VS A520 scores be the same with an older high end RTX 2080TI PCI Express 3.0 ×16 graphics card when gaming?
Very clear explanations ! Thanks for the video 👍
Thanks for the good info. I am surprised that this is being marketed as a gaming platform. It's not really up to the task. I bought it for $49 and amusing it as a Linux server with a stripped down distro and an NAS. The whole rig cost me $160 and is perfect for the task.
I got that exact A520M-HVS it is similar looking I got Ryzen 5 5600G on it but have you seen the other flaw of the motherboard such as even bigger closeness of your Ram Modules to CPU Chip that with thermal radiator and stock cooler is even closer heat to you Ram Modules my CPU temperature is on idle from 33 - 34 C when I'm in windows online browsing but because I have put my fan to full performance, constant performance to 48 -50 C tops when I do whole lot of stuff, I'm a bit older guy I'm no gamer and as you know 5600G has integrated graphics so you can play all but on 1080p with a normal settings in fact. Not to elongate the story I much more don't like that my DDR 4 Ram modules are even closer then VRAM you mentioned. That's to me bigger problem. Just watch out not to damage DDR 4 Modules with overheating of the CPU, I'm currently more concerned for that not to happen. RAM Slots way to close to chip, thermal radiator and cooler. So when you said you made 120 C on your CPU I was like :O because you could have melted damaged DDR Ram. I have Kingston Fury Beast 16 GB 3200 it's on 3.600 it can go to 3.733 Mhz I don't wanna push it that much the deal is I play e-Football or even don't play but I can Run all those games I setup 4GB or Ram to be used for iGPU thise days I will buy another Kingston Fury Beast 16 GB for like 50$ put it in another ram slot and amp my iGPU Memory on 8 GB and I can play even better If i wanna play when it starts fucking me up so I can't play no longer all I will just buy a graphic card and prices will be even lower for GPU's so I will be fine. 😁
Oh come on, you knew you were insane a long time ago
what cpu cooler can i get whit the ASRock A520M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboar?
my ryzen 5 5600g with rtx 3060 came on this board should i be thinking of changing
Can i use a AMD ryzen processor on A520 motherboard?
I mean, if you want to go full on ghetto and you have spare fans laying around you could cool the VRM and the chipset. xD No, but seriously, as you can find really good B450 boards for around the same price these, barren boards these should be similarly priced to the old AM1 boards (30-50$). Boards like those make a lot of sense when you just want to build something simple. Like a Webserver/NAS/officePC. I mean back in the days I built a AM1 5350 that hosts tons of web services. It's still alive and kicking, works great. I use it mostly to get rid of monthly fees for slack, mail server, web server, ftp server, web storage/backup, version control etc. 8TB is generous. These things require very little performance, out of CPUs and boards, especially if you are at most 4 people connected to the server.
Well I was trying to do a ghetto build with a 2200g I have spare, but the current second hand prices mean I might as well buy new as people have gone crazy even on 5 or 6 year old hardware.
@@mrljgibson It's truly a sad time for PC builders these days. It's hard to find really good value. I have only succeeded with that by digging in my apartment complex electronics recycling. I got hold of a whole system Intel I7 6700K, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, GTX1050Ti... Somebody threw it out because the PSU fan was noisy.😓
@@PixelShade well I bought a second hand system a few years back, ASRock A320M with 2200G, 120GB SSD, 8GB 2400 RAM. Now it's a 5600G, NVME 256GB, 1TB SSD, 32GB 3600 RAM, 5TB external drive. All found as cheap deals as I've gone along. It will do me for a while, it runs plenty of games perfectly well. When GPU prices are way down I'll add a GPU. I nearly added one recently as the RX 6600 XT is okay, but I decided I'll want a new PSU and GPU next, if I don't just wait for AM5 to become cheaper, as this system perfectly liveable at the moment.
What do you expect from a motherboard? That is £60 🤣
Yeap cant believe people expect more from a cheapest mb
My problem right now is that some parts I wanted are not in stock, but they are present in prebuild that uses this exact board (Asus prime a520m-k).
Figured it might be worth a shot to get prebuild with this board and just upgrade mobo later on if I need to.
Wish OEMs would have options with b550, but the ones I am looking on don't.
Very helpful video, because now I know this board should be usable and arent going to explode on me on 6/8 core zen2.
I have a Ryzen 7 5700G (that I'm not using as APU anymore because I got a slightly better GPU). My Gigabyte B450M Aorus Elite died and now I need to emergentially buy another motherboard because, besides gaming, I also need the PC for work and study. So I was thinking about getting a A520M K V2 on sale since any B450M or B550M is currently 50% more expensive here. I'm afraid of thermal throttle and parts degradation though.
I've built dozens of A520s using the 65W G series Ryzen CPUs and never got them anywhere near thermals in 48 hour torture tests. Honestly the best bargain boards for those. Definitely B550 for the 105W and above though.
FYI I run a 5700G on this exact board as a relatively highly strung office build. 2x 120 mm fans and a Freezer 7 is all it needs
@@Chr1S1986 i bought a ryzen 5 5600g and msi a520m a pro, do you think i made a mistake here and what's the max CPU is this mobo can handle, and what GPU do you recommend for it max ? thx in advance man
@@ThePriceIsNeverRight definitely not a mistake, unless you wanted mega RGB or PCIE v4, neither of which are important for most people! Your 5600G will max out the power delivery when the iGPU is loaded (approx 97/98W total), so a GPU will make a difference if you're gaming or using it a lot. You'll be fine with anything below a 3070 or equivalent spec. Above that you'll find you might start to CPU limit on low resolutions if you're chasing super FPS numbers. Whilst people moaned about it, a 4060 is a brilliant buy for that combo and it'll run cool under load, plus it's cheaper than the 3060 because everyone hated it (for valid reasons, but casual gaming will be fine)
Little late but does this motherboard have wifi?
i have a a520m with a rx 6600 and only getting 40fps max on low graphics on fh5 how could I get more? Even assetto only getting like 25-30 fps on shutoko
What CPU are you using?
Have you overclocked your memory?
Sounds like you have a bottleneck.
@@mrljgibson I had a amd am4 ryzen 5600G but I got a new pc other with a i5 12600k with a 3060 ti
@@mrljgibson and i didn’t how to overclock without frying my cpu so I was lowkey scared to do it. Hopefully with that i5 12600k I won’t have to overclock
@@CoyoteSwapEverything Well I'd start with the memory speed, I bought 32GB of 3600 1.35v memory for about $80 and as long as you just leave the voltage on auto it's very happy to run it at 3600. That makes a big difference over the old 2400 1.2v memory, which I tried to overclock with the old memory but it decided not to boot the next day, I'd bother about CPU overclocking after that, but you need to work up slowly and keep an eye on temperatures under load, maybe with a better fan fitted, currently I'm on a stock fan so I haven't played with that yet.
if its that basic and barren, why does it costs mre than intels basic mobos.
i liked the word torture.
I would buy only for one reason just to install a nas quadcore home server. Thinking of it... they are not that bad for such use waiting to response your request that's it, that will be the duty it can do perfectly, without any fire hazard.
which cpu I can upgrade on this motherboard without loosing performance.
Good question. I'm wondering, too. I'? thinking like a 5700x to stay safe?
@@seltersss I bought pre-build pc with i3 13100f and rtx 4060 in my country like 600 dolar because the other pc have a520 motherboard without pcı gen4 support. But this one I bought have it. In story game like witcher 3, it looks like I dont lose any performance but like cs2 or other higher fps games, this i3 doesn't use all rtx 4060.
@@seltersss Did you do it? I'm literally about to do the same.
Maybe next time when bench marking a chipset, don't select the cheapest and stupid MB. I have ASRock A520M Pro4, with 6+2 phase passively cooled with heat sink VRMs. Performs just like B550 in benchmarks.
Why should it be benchmarked by the top end motherboard only? That is not realistic for everyone.
@@AnthonyShukerBecause board != chipset. Better name for this video would be "Cheapest Motherboard Tourture Test with Ryzen 9".
I selected gigabyte a520 itx and 5600x.
Did you do it? And did you experience any issues?
is the rtx 3070 ti founders edition compatible with this mother board?
Yes.
Is it good with ryzen 5 pro 4650g? Nobody really talk about that proc.
Im using it with ryzen5 4650g it runs well
@@Dahlilayyy tnx bro, i buy it also runs good... Do you using some grapich card or just vega?
I use the vega for quite a while but recently i paired it with 3050 and it's really great! ♥️♥️
So an ASRock sponsored video, taking a knock at a low end Asus board. 🤔🤣
If I used a ryzen 5 4500 would it run well
If you still want an answer then yes I ran that for 2 years no issues whatsoever
"He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could do it that he forgot to ask whether he should he do it."
You should do some more odd pieces like this on occasion. Torture components that never asked for or deserved such treatment.
IS THIS SUPPORT AMD 5000 Series Ryzen 5 5600X Desktop Processor PLEASE SOLVE MY ISSUE
Yes
For gaming this combination is perfectly fine,
This motherboard have wifi?
nope
U can use this for ryzen 5 5600g right?
yeah
The 5600g will run on an ASRock A320m with a BIOS update, so I would hope it runs on an A520.
Im gonna stick a 5600x on one of these
Did you do it? And did you experience any issues?
I know I'm late, but I built a 5600x, 3060 Ti, A520M-k last year and I definitely notice some issues.
@@brakkiesboi what issues did you have?
Cheers, mate. Even for an office PC I wouldn't buy something like that... lol
👍👌💪
LOL. I wouldn't even let that board in my house 😂, let alone into my PC case. Great video! This is why a balanced build is ALWAYS my preference.
There’s nothing wrong with this board I have it with a Ryzen 7 5700x and a rx 6700 xt and I play mostly vr games and have had no problems at all
Dose roten 7 5800x work?
Yes I have one it's OK but be carefully with temps it can get hot good air flow helps plus a good cpu cooler also helps