Biostar Launches the A620MP-E Pro AMD A620 Chipset Based Motherboard

[TheLostSwede]

Biostar also announced a single AMD A620 chipset based motherboard today in the shape of the A620MP-E Pro, which is yet another microATX based board. Here we're looking at four DDR5 DIMM slots, a single PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, two PCIe 4.0 x1 slots, one PCIe 3.0 x1 slot, a single PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 NVMe slot and even a E Key M.2 slot for WiFi cards, which is actually something of a step up from the competition. Internal connectivity consists of four SATA 6 Gbps ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) Type-C header and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A header.

The rear I/O is home to DisplayPort 1.4, an HDMI port, two USB 2.0 ports, a PS/2 port, four USB 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps ports, a 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet jack powered by Realtek, three audio jacks, WiFi antenna connectors and a BIOS update button. Sadly the audio side is once again utilising the old Realtek ALC897 codec. Biostar has kitted out the VRM's with a heatsink, even though it's a very minimal heatsink. Overall Biostar has done a much more impressive job than MSI here, despite being considered a more budget oriented brand.



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[RegaeRevaeb]

TheLostSwede: you buried the lede.

The last sentence is, I'd say, the most important news. Bloody Biostar has a more feature rich A620 on offer compared with the big boys.

I actually had to re-read the article twice to make sure I saw that PCIe slot layout.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

I didn't see the usually 4 capacitors around audio controller? All other A620 Mb's has it.

 

[Avro Arrow]

My first motherboard back in 1988 was a Biostar Baby-AT for my 286-16. I currently have a Biostar A320M-A that I bought because Canada Computers had it on clearance for $40CAD (I couldn't say no) and it works just fine with my old R7-1700.

I would have no qualms about using a Biostar motherboard again. I would say that once the R7-7800X3D comes out, A520 will be the chipset of choice for gamers since the X3D CPUs can't really be overclocked anyway. Der Bauer already managed to murder an R7-5800X3D by trying to overclock it.

If the CPU can't be overclocked, then there's no point in paying extra for a motherboard that can overclock a CPU.

 

[MachineLearning]

Honestly this would be my pick out of all the A620 boards announced today. Especially if it's one of the cheapest models.

 

[ymdhis]

Full width and has enough x1 ports to add a bunch of SATA cards... once the low-end Zen 4 chips start rolling out, this might be something that will be good for home servers.

 

[rlifeh]

I didn't see the usually 4 capacitors around audio controller? All other A620 Mb's has it.

yep this is very strange !

 

[Ferrum Master]

yep this is very strange !

What's so strange?

BIOSTAR standard budget workhorses never had those electrolytic caps for coupling front panel audio HP/MIC. You are totally fine with MLCC sections around ~10-47uF as trade off with higher cutoff frequency. It is their copy paste module design of ALC897? Who cares. It is work PC, who cares for not enough BASS in your headphones.

A very logic design decision to gimp those needed rolls on the assembly line.