ASUS Unveils Three AMD A620 Chipset Based Motherboards

[TheLostSwede]

It appears that the microATX form factor is the way to go when it comes to AMD A620 chipset based motherboards and ASUS has no less than three new models, although one is technically with or without WiFi. The new models are the TUF Gaming A620M-Plus, the TUF Gaming A620M-Plus WiFi and the Prime A620M-A. All three boards sport six layer PCBs with what appears to be fairly basic power regulation, although ASUS doesn't mention how many phases either model has on its product pages. All boards feature a single PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and two PCIe 3.0 x1 slots, as well as two M.2 NVMe slots that support PCIe 4.0 x4 based drives. All models also have four DDR5 DIMM slots, four SATA 6 Gbps ports and front panel connectors for a 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port and two 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports.

Around the back is where things differ a bit, as the TUF boards have two DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI port, as well as two 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, a PS/2 port and a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port courtesy of a Realtek chip, as well a BIOS FlashBack button. The Prime board on the other hand replaces one DisplayPort output with a VGA connector for some reason and gets to make do with Gigabit Ethernet. The connectivity options aren't what we'd call impressive, but appears to be par for course compared to ASUS' competitors' products. Pricing appear to be in the range of €139-169.




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[V3ctor]

Is this the B550 for this socket?

 

[trsttte]

Is this the B550 for this socket?

That would be B650 that launched months ago, close to the original AM5 and X670 launch. A620 is bottom of the barrel everything stripped down to essentials only, but with current pricing not worth it at all.

AM5 platform pricing is pretty bad, boards are generally too expensive if you're looking for anything slightly better/feature rich.

 

[Chaitanya]

Looking at those prices, I hope these offering from Shitsus fail miserably. I remember mid range X370 boards costing in that price range when AM4 was released.

 

[Zubasa]

Is this the B550 for this socket?

The A620 uses a derated version of the same chipset used by B650 / X670.

Looking at those prices, I hope these offering from Shitsus fail miserably. I remember mid range X370 boards costing in that price range when AM4 was released.

As usual there is no point looking at budget Asus boards, they are often 30%+ more expensive than the competition.
Asrock has boards stating at $86.

 

[Chrispy_]

When Asus are competing on price, their boards are worse than MSI/Gigabyte/Asrock

When Asus are meeting a fixed quality/feature level, they always fail on price. In this case, AMD have officialy stated that THESE ARE SUB-$100 BOARDS. Other manufacturers have made sub-$100 and sub-$125 A620 boards across a number of variant models.

Outside of the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" range, Asus are always the worst choice, and I've noticed this being true since before the multi-core era.

 

[Chaitanya]

When Asus are competing on price, their boards are worse than MSI/Gigabyte/Asrock

When Asus are meeting a fixed quality/feature level, they always fail on price. In this case, AMD have officialy stated that THESE ARE SUB-$100 BOARDS. Other manufacturers have made sub-$100 and sub-$125 A620 boards across a number of variant models.

Outside of the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" range, Asus are always the worst choice, and I've noticed this being true since before the multi-core era.

Even before that their boards were quite flaky, I remember their A8N-SLI deluxe had whole host of issues and used to fail quite often. even their later offering had some wierd issues(I remember some boards would reboot everytime a cellphone placed closeby had incoming calls).

 

[V3ctor]

Even before that their boards were quite flaky, I remember their A8N-SLI deluxe had whole host of issues and used to fail quite often. even their later offering had some wierd issues(I remember some boards would reboot everytime a cellphone placed closeby had incoming calls).

I had 3 of those with my Opteron 170.

I burned one each month, so I was always RMA them, until the warranty was almost over and I jumped to a Q6600...

2x Deluxe
1x Premium A8N32 I think...

 

[unwind-protect]

Even before that their boards were quite flaky, I remember their A8N-SLI deluxe had whole host of issues and used to fail quite often. even their later offering had some wierd issues(I remember some boards would reboot everytime a cellphone placed closeby had incoming calls).

I had an absolute nightmare with an A8N-SLI and Asus so-called support. And I think it was pretty expensive.

 

[mclaren85]

Shitsus

I think you don't like Asus

 

[Chaitanya]

I think you don't like Asus

Not anymore after seeing how they have developed castration fetish in last couple of years, most of their expensive "gaming" boards have turned into means of pushing malware without user consent and having expirienced after sales "service" which best can be described as sluggish and at worst a scam operation.

I had an absolute nightmare with an A8N-SLI and Asus so-called support. And I think it was pretty expensive.

For flagship board A8N-SLI deluxe was quite reasonable as it used to cost below $200 back in the 2005($310 today). But damn it was horrible in terms of its quality.

 

[V3ctor]

The problem is... When I bought the Q6600 I bought a Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 (I had multiple issues with it, and could barely OC my Q6600 G0),so I vowed not to buy Gigabyte again

So my next build was ASUS (ASUS P67 something for my 2500k)... and I was happy again

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

The problem is... When I bought the Q6600 I bought a Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 (I had multiple issues with it, and could barely OC my Q6600 G0),so I vowed not to buy Gigabyte again

So my next build was ASUS (ASUS P67 something for my 2500k)... and I was happy again

Catch is that nvidias chipsets always were problematic. Even in the AMD 64 era where it shat on the intel P4 options it was often worth going intel just to avoid having the issues of the chipsets for AMD boards. Of course that all backfired when I ended up with an ASUS Striker Extreme 680i board and ended up ditching SLI because all the 680i boards were a fucking damn nightmare.

ASUS is OK in the end and most board makers still are. I miss DFI and Abit though, or hell Soyo for that matter. Kinda upset that Supermicros gaming line never kicked off. Their original stuff looked great but I get green PCB and straight copper heatsinks don't sell now when PC gaming is mostly "post a picture of your PC". Still, I liked it!