BIOSTAR Intros Racing B650EGTQ Micro-ATX Motherboard

[btarunr]

BIOSTAR today introduced the Racing B650EGTQ, a Socket AM5 motherboard based on the AMD B650E chipset, in the Micro-ATX form-factor. The board offers a premium feature-set, including PCI-Express Gen 5 for both the x16 PEG slot, and the M.2 NVMe slot wired to the CPU. The board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, and 8+4 pin EPS. It uses a 14-phase VRM with 90 A DrMOS to power the processor. The processor is wired to four DDR5 DIMM slots, a PCI-Express 5.0 x16, and two M.2 NVMe slots with PCI-Express 5.0 x4 wiring. Other expansion slots include a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 (electrical Gen 4 x4) wired to the B650E chipset.

Storage connectivity on the BIOSTAR Racing B650EGTQ includes two M.2 NVMe Gen 5, one M.2 NVMe Gen 4, and four SATA 6 Gbps ports. This is one of the very few motherboards to wire out both Gen 5 x4 GPP interfaces of the Socket AM5 SoC as M.2 NVMe slots. Network connectivity include a 2.5 GbE driven by a Realtek 8125B controller; and preparation for a WLAN card, although the board doesn't have any M.2 E-key slots. The onboard audio soludion features a premium Realtek ALC1220 CODEC. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[trsttte]

I want to like this board since it's one of the only ones that seems to allow bifurcation with B650E so far but the layout is kind of weird.

They only have space for 2 slots cards (that will get suffocated if more than 1) when they could have more space. At least they included a 1x slot in the first position, that's something, but that slot is not open ended (which would not be possible with the m.2 right there), 1x riser are very cheap and readily available (because miners, thanks for that I guess) so that's easy to relocate and is always better than nothing which the other boards seem to prefer.

 

[Daven]

Forty year old PS/2 port in 2022 FTW!

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

This is the best type of micro ATX layout, enough room for a 3 slot GPU like the 6800xt and you can still use another expansion card. It figures that biostar would be the one to offer a decent cheap board this time around.

 

[AusWolf]

So far, this is the only AM5 board that somewhat fits my needs. What a strange world!