AMD stops the production of the B650 chipset. (Image source: Asus)
AMD will soon be the production of a complete chipset: Like the portal ITHome explained, the production of the B650 chip sets found to the end.
The corresponding mainboards are now in the final sales phase of the existing stocks. This fact also affects the smaller B850M chipsets.
While regular B650 mainboards are expected to remain available until the second quarter of 2025, B650M models will probably only disappear completely from the market due to their higher demand in the micro-ATX segment.
The cut comes comparatively suddenly, after all, manufacturers like ASUS have released new B650 mainboards this quarter.
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Basically, the chipset was the cheapest option for you when your computer with CPUs of the generations of the generations of AMD 4 and Zen 5 was stocked-that is, especially if you wanted to put one of the X3D processors on a cheap board, B650 should be an obvious option ().
- The B650 chipset introduced in September 2022 supports GDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration and PCIe 4.0 connectivity.
- In some cases, the manufacturers even expanded this on PCIe 5.0 for NVME SSDs, but that was optionally the case at least on the AMD.
- In addition, CPU and RAM overclocking were on board as well as USB 3.2 at a maximum of 20 GBPs speed.
For you this means the end of the B650 chipset Effectively a decrease in the next PC building. The successor in the form of the B850 chipset Is around 20 percent more expensive from the cheapest models based on the way at the time of publication than the equivalent predecessor.
However, too much does not change between the generations, because with B850 only the PCIe 5.0 for NVME SSDs mentioned becomes compulsory and can optionally also be accommodated as a GPU interface.
A reasonably cheap alternative for AMD builds can be, however, B840 mainboards, but in view of the lack of CPU overclocking options and PCI 3.0 For graphics cards, these boards are only suitable for absolute budget building.
