MSI Intros PRO B650-A WIFI Motherboard

[btarunr]

MSI introduced the PRO B650-A WIFI, a feature-rich entry-mainstream Socket AM5 motherboard under its PRO series. Built in the standard ATX form-factor, the board features a 6-layer PCB, and includes heatsinks for all its M.2 slots, The board draws power from a 24-pin ATX and two 8-pin EPS power connectors and uses a 14+2+1 phase VRM solution that's capable of even the top 170 W TDP Ryzen 9 chips. The CPU socket is wired to four DDR5 DIMM slots, a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slot, and two M.2 NVMe Gen 4 slots. The board's third M.2 Gen 4 slot is wired to the B650 FCH.

The MSI PRO B650-A WIFI offers a fairly premium onboard audio solution driven by a Realtek ALC4080 CODEC. USB connectivity includes a 20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 type-C port, three 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 type-A, four 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1, and a few USB 3.2 and USB 2.0 ports by internal headers. Display outputs include HDMI and DisplayPort. Networking connectivity includes a 2.5 GbE interface driven by a Realtek 8125B controller, and an AMD/Mediatek sourced WLAN module with Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. Besides the three M.2 Gen 4 slots, you get four SATA 6 Gbps ports. The board supports USB BIOS Flashback. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[Chaitanya]

Interesting there are new 600 series boards coming out while 800 series seems to be launching couple of months after 9000 series launch.

 

[Quicks]

"The company didn't reveal pricing."

The only part that matters with the overpriced M/B lately you can just as well wait for the 800 series and hope the price would be better.

 

[dj-electric]

"The company didn't reveal pricing."

The only part that matters with the overpriced M/B lately you can just as well wait for the 800 series and hope the price would be better.

Motherboard companies stopped putting pricing in PR posts simply because they don't want to commit to an MSRP anymore for how the market of parts and supply is behaving, and risk losing money

 

[holyprof]

Interesting alternative to the (most probably) even more expensive 800 series launching soon.
I don't care about gen 5 slots. I currently have gen X470 Gen 4 PCI-E MoBo (Gen.3 for the SSD) and don't think it's holding me back. It's the slow DDR4-3200 and outdated GPU + CPU, neither of which can sturate the gen PCI-E 4 slots. At the current state of things, you won't notice big, if any, difference between gen 4 and gen 5 unless running a SSD or extreme GPU limited (on a RTX4090) benchmarks.