expiredthe-press-box posted Jan 17, 2025 02:17 AM
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expiredthe-press-box posted Jan 17, 2025 02:17 AM
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Processor + Gigabyte B650M Gaming Plus Wi-Fi Motherboard
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The GIGABYTE B650M GAMING PLUS WIFI m-atx motherboard sits near the bottom of budget tier when it comes to am5 motherboards, only behind the ultra budget tier (a620, b840) boards. It has a 5+2+2 vrm that'll thermal throttle under sustained multicore loads with higher end cpus. It can probably handle the 9600x for general use and gaming, but you won't be able to upgrade to a more than 8 core cpu in the future. It doesn't support pcie gen 5 at all. It only has two pcie slots (one gen4x16 primary and one gen3x1), has only two m.2 slots (two gen4x4), and only has 4 sata ports. Additionally, it's rated 3.7 eggs (stars) on newegg, with 19% 1 egg (star) reviews and many reports of doa/failure (select "Only see the reviews for the current item").
Youtube review including the non-plus version (with the same vrm configuration): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n...kCM
Motherboard specs page: https://www.gigabyte.co
The 9600x is a fairly minor improvement over the 7600x outside of specific (mainly avx512) workloads, for a standard user the performance difference will generally be in the upper single digits.
Overall, this deal is a poor value, since the 9600x is overpriced compared to the last gen 7600x, and the included motherboard is very low end. If you live near a microcenter, for the same price you can get a bundle with a similar quality motherboard and 16gb of ddr5 ram, and for $30 cheaper you could get said bundle with the last gen 7600x (neither of those even being standout values amongst the bundles). If you can afford to wait, the rare sales of the 7700x bundle at $350 are in a completely different league. Even if you don't live near a microcenter, the previous newegg bundles with this motherboard (like the one I linked near the top of this post) were an inordinately better deal.
You need the "E" to have it support PCIE 5.0
ex. B650E
Only extreme overclocking or something like higher end threadripper would need something like that
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You need the "E" to have it support PCIE 5.0
ex. B650E
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The GIGABYTE B650M GAMING PLUS WIFI m-atx motherboard sits near the bottom of budget tier when it comes to am5 motherboards, only behind the ultra budget tier (a620, b840) boards. It has a 5+2+2 vrm that'll thermal throttle under sustained multicore loads with higher end cpus. It can probably handle the 9600x for general use and gaming, but you won't be able to upgrade to a more than 8 core cpu in the future. It doesn't support pcie gen 5 at all. It only has two pcie slots (one gen4x16 primary and one gen3x1), has only two m.2 slots (two gen4x4), and only has 4 sata ports. Additionally, it's rated 3.7 eggs (stars) on newegg, with 19% 1 egg (star) reviews and many reports of doa/failure (select "Only see the reviews for the current item").
Youtube review including the non-plus version (with the same vrm configuration): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n...kCM
Motherboard specs page: https://www.gigabyte.co
The 9600x is a fairly minor improvement over the 7600x outside of specific (mainly avx512) workloads, for a standard user the performance difference will generally be in the upper single digits.
Overall, this deal is a poor value, since the 9600x is overpriced compared to the last gen 7600x, and the included motherboard is very low end. If you live near a microcenter, for the same price you can get a bundle with a similar quality motherboard and 16gb of ddr5 ram, and for $30 cheaper you could get said bundle with the last gen 7600x (neither of those even being standout values amongst the bundles). If you can afford to wait, the rare sales of the 7700x bundle at $350 are in a completely different league. Even if you don't live near a microcenter, the previous newegg bundles with this motherboard (like the one I linked near the top of this post) were an inordinately better deal.
Only extreme overclocking or something like higher end threadripper would need something like that
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The GIGABYTE B650M GAMING PLUS WIFI m-atx motherboard sits near the bottom of budget tier when it comes to am5 motherboards, only behind the ultra budget tier (a620, b840) boards. It has a 5+2+2 vrm that'll thermal throttle under sustained multicore loads with higher end cpus. It can probably handle the 9600x for general use and gaming,
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