My experience with the cheapest AM4 motherboard on Amazon

[@RandomGaminginHD]

In the gameplay footage I accidentally left the ram labelled as “ddr5 6400” from a previous test. I was using 3200 DDR4 32gb :)

[@Nitemerer]

Damn and I thought my 8 gbs ddr4 was the best😔

[@Soddus.]

any plans on doing a setup tour ?

[@theanglerfish]

CL 16?

[@burrfoottopknot]

With Intel having financial issues one of the smartest things they could do is adopt how AMD allow multiple gens on each board.

[@darren253]

Do you know what I like to see Motherboard Manufacturers do is what laptop firms do. You get a new update and it updates like normal. No USB sticks needed. Can be done I bet.

[@mrbas1c]

This channel has been stuck in time I love it. This is the KZbin era we miss,very homemade-y videos in the best way.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks :) I try to keep a more personal feel to things

[@xFluing]

Budget Builds Official also has a similar feel.

[@matthewbusse1059]

​@@xFluingboth are some of my favorite

[@white_mage]

and the videos are short too

[@Verrulz]

No unnecessary intro or editing, love it

[@electricindigoball1244]

The fact you can put a Ryzen 7 5700X3D on this board and get performance close to the 12900K in games is wild. It doesn't even matter that this is an A520 board because the X3D chips are locked anyway and with how efficient they are that VRM will have no issues either. AM4 is one of the best platforms in desktop PC history.

[@houghwhite411]

It is, I am still rocking AM4 today and it chew anything I trhow at it

[@Fantomas24ARM]

It is THE best.

[@Strive2One]

heres a nice little tip for locked mobo, and cpus for undervolting PBO2 Tuner!

[@b0ne91]

They are not locked. You can use PBO/Curve Optimizer with them and you lose that with an A520. A B450 will give those features but take away PCIE 4.0 - that's if you actually even needed that

[@aristotelisentertainment279]

@@b0ne91 a520 is pcie 3

[@emp.splash]

My guy was in a hurry today. 😊 Cheers for the video!

[@un5224]

Thought I had KZbin sped up… Nope. He need to slow down.

[@ChengsHardware]

Maxsun has been well recieved on the budget boards here in China over the past few years. People joke that Maxsun is "King of the beggers", in a positive way.I myself been using a B660M challenger with I5-12500 for the past few years, no problem whatsoever. This A520M challenger is been sold for 399yuan (56USD or 42pounds) here in China, so, pricing is pretty good.

[@pauldethick6175]

It's good to see this tech coming out of China, it keeps the established companies in the market on their toes.

[@AffectionateLocomotive]

Me2 I use speed though. U guys know the SPEED Brand?

[@AffectionateLocomotive]

I bought a h110m for 43~$

[@CharlesVanNoland]

Having to update the BIOS to support *older* CPUs, now that's wacky!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yep haha but I appreciate the option

[@leoj3008]

It has been the case with older A320 motherboards for a while, Asus A320M-K used to support A-Series processors but new batches that come with support for Ryzen 5000 Series had to drop support for those older processors in order to be able to include the micro code necessary for newer ones, not something that you might want when buying that budget motherboard but who knows anyone's needs

[@barwit12345]

That's one hell of a change in speech mannerisms, went from a british unemployed bloke to a british used car(d) salesman 😂

[@Jomenaa]

Daymn the og R3 1200, had a nostalgia rush xD

[@RandomGaminginHD]

One of my favourites :)

[@Snufflegrunt]

I can't believe that stuff is old enough to be nostalgic for. Getting older

[@Writeous0ne]

My first amd was phenom ii 965 black edition, i'll never forget her

[@masacote_]

I've been playing with the R3 1200 since 2018 (my first quad core) and in two days I'll be installing a R5 5600 (My first six core). But I won't forget all this years of service and non-stop gaming that the 1200 delivered

[@pauldethick6175]

My first AMD processor was an Athlon 2000 XP in 2002, so is that nostalgia or ancient history? 😂

[@dcikaruga]

AM4 came out in 2016 and AMD are still releasing chips for it to this day, never seen Intel do anything like that.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah the support is awesome

[@claudiobizama5603]

And there's a long life after they stop, on the used market

[@dcikaruga]

@@claudiobizama5603 An 8-core or above 5000 series should keep you rocking for years from now too.

[@Kashi941]

@@dcikaruga let alone any x3d CPU. I think those will remain very valuable on the used market for years to come.

[@AndrewTSq]

the support is both a good thing and bad, bad things is that you do not get support for the latest tech on it.

[@bobfranklin2572]

Constructive feedback: I think you just read a bit too fast this time. I got a little burned out towards the end and you did too. Your calm voice and relaxed pace were part of the appeal for me. Just my opinion, love the vids regardless.

[@HerrAlien]

I like that you seem to manage making videos with and without a script. Good luck with testing the A520 board - I only heard of the Maxsun name from datasheets of BIOS chips.

[@mikemouse40]

Live in China and tested some of those, but always fall back to known brands like ASROCK, especially as those China boards cost the same as the bigger brands. Love your vidios, especially the earthquake hand shaking 🤣.... I can relate

[@Baligante]

A VRM heatsink and an Nvme slot? You're acquiring some luxurious tastes, Mr InHD!

[@physxme]

Normally the BIOS only has so much flash memory, you can only have support for some, not all AM4 processors on it at one time. But you can flash back to an older firmware to get the older CPUs to light up. Technically they aren't lying with the "supports 1000~5000" claim, just not all of them at the same time. It's great to see Maxsun overcome this limitation.

[@ptah4000]

Mostly a 350/450 problem if my memory serves right.

[@olnnn]

worth noting that 1000-5000 doesnt have to mean all AM4 chips either, there were also bulldozer architecture athlon cpus released early on for AM4 which tends to have suppot dropped in favor of newer cpus on many boards

[@shaneeslick]

Yeah most AM4 BIOS are 16mb & with so many CPUs available some partners dropped support for early Zen & went to a simpler BIOS Layout to comply with Promised 5000 Support, but MSI Max versions have 32mb allowing them to not need Deleting Early CPUs for 5000 Support so bards like my MSI B450M PRO VDH MAX support 1000-5000 including all G/GE APUs Maybe this one has a "BIG" BIOS chip too

[@IlMemetor72]

Is it me or is Steve speaking quite faster these days? I miss the relaxing chilled out pace 😢

[@Verrulz]

You can always slow down the video ;D

[@robindebondt4643]

Yeah, this video was rushed af :(

[@usernamemusntbeblank]

Even he himself mentioned that he got exhausted from reading this script lol

[@kaidanalenko5222]

This got annoying tenfold 😂

[@Seizuqi]

why is the speed so fast lolo

[@G0nZ4Low]

Woah, your voice sounds different, give me back sweet paced relaxed RandomGamingHD 😂😂😂

[@us249]

random gaming in 1.5x speed it seems😄

[@lukasgroot]

It's rumored that Steve had a full can of Monster before dubbing the video.

[@SrSamuerto]

Yeah, I noticed it as well. I was trying different speeds and 0.85 seems to be the regular Steve. Maybe he fucked some setting lmao.

[@djlim4612]

Good video. Am actually using Maxsun's sister brand Soyo in my 2nd rig. The Soyo B550M Dragon Monarch to be exact. It's running fine with a Ryzen 5 5600 on it, but the bios interface is funky.

[@andic6676]

Used my i7 2600 last night and I was surprised how good it was still...older PCs still rock!

[@marlon.8051]

too bad microsoft with windows 11 disagreed

[@andic6676]

@@marlon.8051 I know

[@FarBeyondDriven1978]

​@@marlon.8051there is a Windows 11? 😶😳🙄🤣

[@stevethepocket]

@@marlon.8051 No that's good actually, you won't have spyware shoved down your throat

[@shaneeslick]

@@stevethepocket 😉👍

[@Gargentwitchongargee]

Thats crazy how am4 is still best platform that sells pretty well

[@aleksazunjic9672]

It will last in PS5 era since PS5 CPU is actually from this generation of CPUs.

[@Gargentwitchongargee]

@@aleksazunjic9672 yes

[@dylanwillyams]

3:45 no you dont need a 32gb flash drive. fat32 supports down to 512mb

[@lucasrem]

Max 4 Gb files is the only issue

[@4x13x17]

Its not that, is that storage devices above 32 gigs quit supporting the fat32 format, they just support exFAT and NTFS

[@TheZerok666]

I went looking to see if someone has commented on this because it's an important detail. You actually can't go ABOVE 32 gigs with FAT32.

[@ianemery2925]

@@4x13x17 It isnt that the devices dont support it; it is that Microgit deleted the option from WinXP, SP2, waaaay back, and only a few 3rd party software options exist in the Windows eco-system, to let you format FAT32 on a larger capacity drive - it CAN go to 2TB. (To force people to use NTFS and later exFAT). I have successfully formatted flash memory up to 512 GB and had it work with a range of older devices that only support FAT32, even a few FAT16 devices that only worked to 2GB; although my old Nikon D40 throws a hissy fit - recognising the card as 512GB, but insisting the card is full; it works perfectly with a 300GB card though. I have yet to try a terabyte capacity drive, they are still too expensive. I used AOMEI Partition Manager (free version) - which can do a whole host of useful things to any type of HDD/SSD/flash memory.

[@ianemery2925]

@@TheZerok666 Yes you can, FAT32 is good to 2TB; I use 3rd party tools to format up to 512GB drives to FAT32.

[@houghwhite411]

Reminded me how crazy AM4 system is for wide long term support Uh, yeah, I am still using AM4 too...

[@gtasomogyi]

Nice one, again! Short and informative!👌🏻 Gigabyte states for my mobo (GA-A320M-H (rev.3)) that it is too compatible from gen 1 to 5, and I do plan to test it, since I want to upgrade from my trusty 3 1200 to a 3 3300x, 3 5100, or 5 5500, or 7 3700... 😁

[@aukett16]

Mate, sounds like your from London 🤣 long time watcher and subscriber, love your vids ✌✌

[@AydenGR8]

Hey steve, the r5 1600 you used is the AF variant, does first gen ryzen also work on this mobo? love your vids btw

[@ak-ut7zy]

As expected, very good content 🔥

[@DaveOJ]

I love the self-deprecation.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😁

[@jjlambonscloudyproductions]

Great video just lacked the typical dying profusely in CS2...lol

[@BearyCoolDude]

I have an pretty inexpensive AM4 baord and it's doing my rig justice. Definitely can see the limitations, as you said, but it's not bad. Also, I woulda gone to the 6th grade dance with you bro. That comment *killed* 6th grade me 😭😆

[@FireBreatherMP1]

My stepbrother has been using this motherboard for years now. I built his system for him 2 or 3 years ago and it's been doing well. He's 12 and has got it paired with a Ryzen 5 5500 and an RX 580. His birthday is coming up so I'm looking into grabbing him an RTX 2070 or 3060 as a nice upgrade as the RX 580 is finally beginning to show its age and his card constantly disables itself. I'm surprised this 50 dollar motherboard is still kicking tbh

[@SockyNoob]

I'm just glad the motherboard box brought back the trend of random CGI robots or people on the front. I miss that, especially the golden guy with the glowing eyes lol.

[@Knight_IV]

The part about the FAT32 sounds wrong. FAT32 doesn't need a 32Gb thumb drive, a 16Mb would be fine technically. FAT32 is just old with a 2GB file limit and some other limitations.

[@oldgangster4119]

I love the intro because of those plants

[@seanzhao5174]

A520m boards were never meant to run with Ryzen 1000 or Ryzen 2000 series The fact that you can do that alone is very good, hell I couldnt get my ASRock A520m to work with a Ryzen 5 2600x

[@StickyxFinga]

works fine for me bro, asus a520 and a 2600x running fine

[@StickyxFinga]

i lied, 320m

[@shaneeslick]

@@StickyxFinga 🤦‍♂DOH! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shaneeslick]

I had a similar problem where without checking compatability I got a B550M Aorus PRO-P for an AM4 Testbench & it doesn't support my Athlon200GE/Ryzen 2000G CPUs 🤦‍♂ ended up getting a MSI B450M PRO VDH MAX as like the Maxsun it also supports 1000-5000 including all G/GE APUs 🙃👎.

[@sheldonkupa9120]

I love your experiments! So i dont need to do it myself😂 Honestly, i would also consider the Asus Prime b450 boards. They are at 50 plus Euros at Amazon and deliver good quality. And they also support Ryzen 5000.

[@xShamanx]

Your humor is my cup of tea 😆 great content!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks for watching :)

[@mark-sk3do]

"like me at my year 6 school dance, it was rejection" that made me chuckle

[@gnarlin4964]

I bought this board. At the time you had to put a specific custom bios from the manufacturer to use Ryzen 2000's cpu's in. I did and put my old Ryzen 2700x in and it worked like a charm. The BIOS on this board is pretty great, especially for a A520 board.

[@Rmm1722]

Good work mate 😅🎉

[@CorrichetiLagga]

Love this budget pc components!

[@joepearson6644]

I bought my Asus Prime PRO X370 in 2017, and it's still going strong 💪

[@MagnonEntertain]

The 520 boards were really interesting since their release. I bought a gigabyte aurous one back then because the silently supported the 3400g and my dad just needed a cheap board to get it going. Been rock solid since then. Funnily enough, at some point AMD, I assume, officially gave the okay because now they officially list the compatibility on the gigabyte site

[@Betonoszlop]

Very very nice piece!

[@michaela831]

The message check romlayout fail at 4:08 doesn‘t sound good 😄 But the Video was interesting as always 👍🏻

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Random, While they seem usless these days with new USB Drives being over 100GB working old ones can still be useful, I have an old 1GB USB Thumbdrive for doing BIOS Updates & my 4GB/8GB ones are now my "Car Music" as my car Head Unit only supports 999 Songs per drive so anything bigger is a waste. WOW! 1000-5000 + ****G/GE support is not very often supported as when 5000 was added many BIOS Deleted Early Zen + APU support to have enough space on the chip, so nice find as it makes AM4 work less of a hassle. I went with a MSI B450M PRO VDH MAX for this same purpose, I had an eBay disccount making it $99AUD (£51.47 - $67.54USD) Delivered

[@neggyt]

My ASRock B350 Fatal1ty K4 updated it's bios for 5 series Ryzen. Still OC's well and handles all I have thrown at it. Rocking a 5900X because the 5800X3d was out of stock and I bent the pins on my 3700x upgrading my cooler. 😢

[@nesyboi9421]

You can get Asus b450m boards for like 60-70 dollars USD here in the states

[@sagorjaman6919]

its maxsun mother board, and i m proud to say that , I am a product development manager in Bangladesh and my company is the authorised and officially sole distributor of maxsun motherboard and graphics card, they are pretty good

[@MitcherSM]

I've been rocking a320m-k prime from asus with a 5800x3d for a longest time. No problems at all. Full boost.

[@pokokjantan]

Would you happen to know if the HDMI port comes HDCP support? If yes, this motherboard would be an excellent choice in building a media PC on the cheap. Just plonk in an APU and you’re good to go!

[@Djare915]

Good idea!I see where you come from.

[@kjjustinXD]

I have a few old A320 Mainboards from biostar. These Mainboards are from ~2016 with original support for the A Series chips like the A12 9800. For some reason biostar decided to update this boards BIOS for compatibility with every single generation that works on AM4. these boards cost 40€ brand new back then. I can test an A12 9800, Update the bios and go to a 5800X3D, all on the same board. You only have to switch between a few bios versions because the bios chip is a bit too small to support every chip at the same time.

[@white_mage]

personally i test motherboards by overclocking the ram as far a it will go on that board and underclocking the cpu as much as possible without errors. that, and then installing pci devices: a graphics card, sound card, sata controller, usb controller and network, followed by populating the m.2 slots with nvme drives for testing bandwidth when everything else is populated. works pretty good 👍

[@andyshtroymish4997]

Sounds surprisingly good actually. Of course you hava ti have an excuse of certain conditions to actually need this, just as you've mentioned the need to test various CPUs from different generations. What bothers me more though is this MoBo really fit for a 5700x in a long term without voltage/consumption tweaking? It clearly says "up to 65W TDP" on the box and "x"-es can draw up to 125 for a short time period...

[@xtianvi]

got also a Maxsun RX 580 2048sp and I already using it for 1 year with no issue like BSOD. I think Maxsun is a good brand

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

1 of my sons wanted a pc built after I had already built a 570, 550 and 450 in the house so I said okay but it would be a cheap af 320/ryzen 3600. The A520 we ordered ended up coming from Italy and was a total headache requiring a bios flash with no cheat flash button. Anyways it was £40 last year on Amazon. It was certainly a knock off mobo from somewhere in China but sold out of Italy.

[@youzernejm]

Maxsun Is also the owner of Soto. They make similar boards methinks, should be a pretty good manufacturer, much more dependable than Biostar. Hope you'll prove me right.

[@soniccdx]

that robot design on for the boxart , looks like similar to the one on the redmagic 9s pro default wallpaper

[@TrusteftTech]

I've been thinking of getting one of those cheap (but not necessarily low priced) X99 boards for my i7-5960X. Money is very tight so the idea of paying up to 120 euros for a motherboard which is of a decade old design and which might not even work, is not making me jump from happiness. Even more so as all these "no-name" motherboards seem to have some weird limitations, many of them have SATA-2 only, others only mSATA, others no USB 3.0 ports in the back, etc. Like red flags everywhere. I am glad at least this AM4 board seems to be ok for those who pick it up. I think I will just sell my hardware and be done with it.

[@SysadminJohn]

Ooooh! It comes with a serial port! Many of the Zen 4 / Zen 5 motherboards don't come with them any longer, making them less suitable for use in servers. I wonder if this MB supports ECC, like ASRock do.

[@quisqueyanguy120]

I'm seriously considering buying this board

[@truckerallikatuk]

I just bought a VGA only motherboard... brand new, and it cost £500! Then again server stuff is still usually on VGA.

[@leoj3008]

Fact note: That Ryzen 5 1600 appears to be the 'AF' version since CPU-Z reported it being built on 12nm while the original 1st gen Ryzen was on 14nm.

[@zahadou]

the Mighty Ryzen 5 1600 brought to it's knees by StarrShytte

[@zShavo]

Hello! As someone who just sold a pack of 10 B550M motherboards from Maxsun, i'd like to remind you that There are versions with PCIe 3.0 and 4.0; Their VRM arent the best , but hey

[@leightaylor8069]

Always like you videos. Please could you talk a bit slower as I find it hard to understand when you talk fast. Also you don't need a 32GB driver/parition for FAT32, a smaller one will do.

[@Gravstein]

Slow down buddy! I like the normal Steve where ever you are.

[@SerdceDanko]

Looks very similar to my Asus Gaming A320 board.

[@wildnshortz5213]

Great video as always! I've heard many people saying that higher end 5000 series processors will damage a low end a520 board and just wont reach intended clocks. I currently have an Asrock a520m hdv from a prebuild, it is essentially one the cheapest most basic am4 boards out there. Looking to upgrade the cpu and the 5700x seems like a solid option for me, 65w tdp and affordable. Would my board be able to handle it at full gaming load? I would really appreciate it if someone with prior experience could help me out.

[@Dtr146]

Okay, I might have to buy one of these because I have a couple of ryzen chips land around.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Go for it :)

[@AlexHusTech]

They are decent done a fair few builds with them.

[@mcid47]

never underestimate Maxsun/Soyo stuff, they'll gave you the weirdest quirks motherboards with cheapest price you would find, also made with solid internals actually I'm still rocking Maxsun A88 and also H610 from Soyo and they're still as good as new

[@BReal-10EC]

Did you test its ability to run fast ram? IIRC, fast ram in dual channel is important for a basic iGPU build. Though a better build would be this $50 board, something like a used Ryzen or big discount new one (like the 5500- only 87 bucks at best buy right now!!!!!), and a used GPU like maybe a rx 5700 xt?

[@Zerbey]

I've had a similarly priced ASRock AM4 board sitting on my Amazon wish list for a while for an older 3800X I have sitting on a shelf waiting for a job to do. Maybe I'll buy this one instead since I know it'll work.

[@Gn3ral1]

Is this a good gaming pc CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X GPU: AMD RX 6700 Sapphire pulse £400 second hand

[@samserious1337]

How much RAM? How many sticks? Latency?

[@Gn3ral1]

@@samserious1337 Thanks for the help Full specs on ad. CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X GPU: AMD RX 6700 Sapphire pulse (still have box) SSD: Kingston SKC3000S1024G 1TB RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3600 C18 2x8GB MBD: MSI MAG B550M MORTAR MAX WIFI (MS-7C94) Power unit: 650M Case: Fractal designs

[@samserious1337]

@@Gn3ral1 seems rather cheap, sure the PC is working?

[@antongrekov7710]

go for it

[@asdfqwerty-u9n]

Did you test with the 1 gen ryzen ?? I assume it wont work with a Bristol cpu but intresseting if it would

[@PunkXone]

Are you hopped up on sugar lol? Coming from your normally calm, soothing tone, this sounds jarring.

[@kitsune7919]

Love the 5700x tbh still a great gaming cpu

[@Nico99993]

I am in the process of building 3 office PC's with Asrock A520_HDV Motherboard. The Ryzen 5 5500GT is only supportet after Bios update wich means to put a supported CPU in to update the Bios to P3.3 (P2.3 from 2021 is installed)) in my case a Ryzen 5 4600G from a Pc i built last Year. Keep that in mind when combinig Modern AM4 CPU with low end Motherboard.

[@rzpogi]

My asus a320m-k prime mobo is also compatible from Ryzen 1000-5000 series since 2022. However, with the update aadd compatibility to Ryzen 5000 series was removing compatibility to AM4 non-Ryzen CPU such as the A-series, but really, the cheap Athlon 300ge easily smokes the top of the line A-series APUs.

[@brianjay9357]

Have been planning to get one of these motherboards they actually don't seem that bad.

[@straybricks]

Wild that it needs the newest bios to use the oldest Ryzen. Usually it’s the opposite problem, need to update bios to use 5000 series.

[@shaneeslick]

🤔I think it's because A520 like B550 doesn't normally support 1000-2000 or their APUs so Maxsun have Modified the stock BIOS to include these

[@danielgoodrum1991]

jheez you alright? too many e numbers was it 😂 sounds like your on speed hahaha 😅

[@amnottabs]

man, I cheaped out on a B550 motherboard from Biostar and the fcker didn't had an m.2 slot so this seems like quite the luxurious bargain for me

[@zextakamania2086]

Seriously, a b550 with no m2? I haven’t even seen an ITX AM4 board without at least one m2 slot

[@amnottabs]

@@zextakamania2086 yeah I just assumed it had an m2 slot and bought it unseen; but it's not even like some low end variants of a product where there's an unpopulated space for said slot, there's simply no such thing on the board's design

[@digitaljon1109]

I like benchmarking CPU's, and might just need to get one of these. I recently bought an LGA 1366 motherboard for $58, and it came bent up like a taco or a banana, so I had to return it. Maybe I should get an AM4 board instead.

[@CallMeTonyga]

solid board for ebay CPU test bench

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Exactly

[@tonkatoytruck]

Have you ever tried to find a cheap AM4 motherboard that still has SPDIF audio out? What used to be common has become a unicorn under $200-$250usd.

[@blakedmc1989RaveHD]

just a quick note, DO NOT ENABLE RESIZABLE BAR OR SECURE BOOT IF YA WANT TO RUN A OLD SCHOOL CAPTURE CARD like me, my AverMedia C027 was a perfect example of it but good video tho

[@buzzrot]

Am currently trying to update the BIOS on an ASRock x570 Phantom Gaming 4 mobo to the latest BIOS. It says you can do it on the Matisse codename CPUs like the Ryzen 5 3600 which I borrowed from a friend, but it didn't even post. Not sure if the board is cooked or if I should try another CPU in it

[@manurz1]

bro was roasting a cheap mobo

[@buildyourcomputer]

amusingly the asus prime b650m that's part of the 7600x combo at microcenter has those same mesosiac era ports.

[@Woodnsus]

Nice.

[@commiewhacker64]

I wonder if the bios has a backdoor. I’d like to use these boards, but I can’t trust the bios’s security on that board.

[@barrycheesemore2928]

I got an ASUS A520M-K mobo recently (low budget) and its got a VGA port and PS/2 ports, and like you I do wonder why manufacturers still do this. There can't be a high percentage of people who use these ports, can there? To be honest the board is fine, no issues whatsoever, it's paired with a Ryzen 5 4600G and Kingston Fury Beast 3200MT/s DDR4, and a PowerColor RX6600 GPU and it runs really well, and I get decent performance, if not outstanding. I do run Linux 99% of the time, I do a little bit of gaming here and there, but mostly older titles like Fallout 4 and Diablo 3 as I love them....

[@StickyxFinga]

i think its mainly to add compatability and failsafes for troubleshooting but most people will use a dedicated gpu anyway

[@oliverhoschi6135]

I find the AM4 plattform the most confusing. If i go out and buy an new 520 or 550 with Ryzen 5000 series support out of the box, it will mostly not accept ryzen cpus from the first gen. It is a miss or hit in most cases. And even after a bios update it is not guranteed that first gen ryzens will be supported. Its weird to me. My logic tells me, if the 3000 or 5000 series are supported, the 1000 series must be also, because it has way newer bios on it. But no. that logic fails. So in order to make most boards working, you need an array of ryzen cpus to make an bios update, since not all boards have an update feature without a working cpu.

[@smokegames1179]

That cooler is bigger than the mobo damn 😂

[@FOGoticus]

Question: Why not go for an old A320 motherboard? It seems like this A520M motherboard doesn't even support 3200Mhz which is supported on the A320 natively.

[@AhmedHassan-en4jo]

Also share your long term review for maxsun b550m

[@stevenchan3822]

That massive heat sink

[@Nick_R_]

For a FAT 32 partition, 32gb is your maximum. You can use smaller drives...