Wednesday, January 1st 2025
ASUS Drops Sneak Peek of Upcoming AMD AM5 Motherboards
Earlier today, ASUS uploaded a first sneak peek of several upcoming AMD AM5 motherboards—which we assume will feature the B850 and B840 chipsets—which according to the post on Facebook, will be launching within a couple of weeks. The boards will most likely be on display at CES, which kicks off on the 7th of January. The picture is obfuscated for obvious reasons, but what is clear is that there will be several different SKUs from all of ASUS' typical sub-brands such as TUF Gaming and ROG.
What we can also make out is that there will be at least one Mini-ITX board and one micro-ATX board, with the latter being the TUF Gaming branded board. We tried to clean up the picture a bit, but ASUS has managed to hide all details of possible models names and most of the text is kind of hard to make out. Nothing really sticks out in terms of features, although it's clear we'll end up seeing some higher-end B850 boards, judging by the fact that there are at least three ROG Strix SKUs coming. The question is if there's a market for these boards, considering the B850 chipset is pretty much the same as the B650E chipset, but with optional PCIe 5.0 support for the M.2 slots and no USB4, unlike its X870 counterpart.
Update Jan 1st: ASUS posted a picture of their upcoming mid-range Intel boards on Facebook as well, but as with the AMD boards, ASUS obfuscated the image, although not quite as badly this time around. For its Intel lineup, there's also a lower-end Prime board included, in addition to the TUF Gaming and ROG Strix boards. ASUS didn't reveal any launch window for the Intel boards.
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ASUS on Facebook
What we can also make out is that there will be at least one Mini-ITX board and one micro-ATX board, with the latter being the TUF Gaming branded board. We tried to clean up the picture a bit, but ASUS has managed to hide all details of possible models names and most of the text is kind of hard to make out. Nothing really sticks out in terms of features, although it's clear we'll end up seeing some higher-end B850 boards, judging by the fact that there are at least three ROG Strix SKUs coming. The question is if there's a market for these boards, considering the B850 chipset is pretty much the same as the B650E chipset, but with optional PCIe 5.0 support for the M.2 slots and no USB4, unlike its X870 counterpart.
Update Jan 1st: ASUS posted a picture of their upcoming mid-range Intel boards on Facebook as well, but as with the AMD boards, ASUS obfuscated the image, although not quite as badly this time around. For its Intel lineup, there's also a lower-end Prime board included, in addition to the TUF Gaming and ROG Strix boards. ASUS didn't reveal any launch window for the Intel boards.
40 Comments on ASUS Drops Sneak Peek of Upcoming AMD AM5 Motherboards
Jokes aside, the dearth of mATX options is annoying. Like, Asus has so far only a single one for AM5. This would be the second. Unfortunate.
Do not forget A620 "chipsets" and mainboards without chipsets also exists for the AM5 platform. Regardless if these are useful or not. I consider both more on the problematic side.
Thanks for the nearly complete summary table of AM5 chipsets.
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ASUS teases wiht a clear visible CMOS battery for the TUF mainboard.
"for those who dare" on the top left mainboard. A warning from ASUS (sarcasm)?
www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20X600%20Series/index.de.asp#Specification
x300 was afaik for am4
A chipset is just an expansion of the input/output ports in my point of view.
Please feel free to correct me or give additional inputs. Mainboard makers could make mainboards without a chipset basically. I do not get the point why only asrock sell it with their products as far as i know. This could satisfy those guys who say they want 25€ mainboards. (which was the case for cheap entry am4 mainboards for a long time period)
Putting out a slimy, wimpy PR without any info on the products....
I reckon they believe that's gonna give 'em (more) excuses for the aSs-puckering prices & lack of features, go figure :(
www.igorslab.de/en/a-ryzen-without-one-chip-set-operates-without-whats-behind-the-knoll-activator/
On AM5 it's probably a very similar situation. AMD even lists the PRO 600 on their chipset info page. TPU covered an Asrock motherboard here. It's probably not coming to retail, ever.
The main problem isn't the speed restriction but the lack of available ports however.
I was also fooled for a long time by those three extra 16 mechanical lanes pcie slots. Later I saw those are only pcie 3.0 with two lanes for example.
Only the mainboard manual will give you the details. I dislike those 800 amd chipsets. They come back with those slow PCIE 3.0 lanes in the expansion slots or m2 nvme slots.
Some x670 board have 2x Pcie 4x4 slots and 1x pcie 16x4 slot. And an useless shared pcie 3.0x1 slot with the sata ports.
Halve decent keylight but no backlight?
I simply can´t se anthing appealing due to crappy camerawork.
Ended up with failed internal power board, which they swapped, but the engineer was sloppy and introduced dust behind the display panel, so they had to swap that out and the new panel failed again within the warranty period, so they swapped it again, only for the new panel to develop a similar ghosting issue that the panel started to have after a year...
The router that failed got swapped for a new one sealed in the box, if only they hadn't EOL:ed it less than a year later, despite being a recent AX model...