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Maxsun B650 ITX Motherboard US$105.75 (~A$167) Delivered @ Maxsun Store AliExpress

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Very cheap AM5 ITX motherboard from a decently known motherboard manufacturer.

I pulled the trigger a few days ago @A$205, it's just popped up significantly cheaper again. Currently building a bargain ITX build and absolutely think this is worth it. It's an affiliated product so cashbacks will work with it, use the app for their in-app cashback, get coins, drive your dollar further.

Maybe I would put a $1200 CPU in there, maybe I wouldn't. Frankly it's a price range I could do without.

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  • josepet on 26/03/2025 - 19:09
    +13

    Buying a motherboard from Aliexpress…

    https://shorturl.at/qxZS5

    • Hornpub on 26/03/2025 - 19:17
      +2

      not for the faint-hearted for sure

    • Dan24 on 26/03/2025 - 20:01
      +4

      My jginyue night devil b650i is still going hard since August 2024.

    • Shootinputin89 on 26/03/2025 - 21:29

      eh, I've done it before. And just ordered a used X570 off there to replace a B550M in a secondary UnRaid build. Risk is worth it.

      Although, if I could go back in time to 2020 - I would not have purchased an MSI X570 motherboard (MEG Unify), since they seem to be the only vendor that doesn't allow for the error-correction functioning of ECC ram. Thank goodness for vendors like Asrock.

    • bcYield on 27/03/2025 - 03:31

      Buying a motherboard from Temu…

    • maybe a bot on 26/03/2025 - 19:23
      +22

      maxsun are a legit oem, this board is stocked at centercom / jw

      https://www.centrecom.com.au/maxsun-esport-b650itx-wifi-ice-…

      • bag on 26/03/2025 - 19:29
        +9

        And worth noting its $110 cheaper on AliExpress than Centre Com and $70 cheaper than the next AM5 ITX board.

        • Billybob94111 on 26/03/2025 - 19:57
          +11

          If you know how to use aliexpress its not that hard to recognise a risky, no review seller from an established well review seller lol.

          • Ozzster on 26/03/2025 - 20:38

            @Billybob94111: Yeah, 8 reviews is very trustworthy. At least, this is what on the posted link.

        • freefall101 on 26/03/2025 - 20:05
          +1

          It's a Maxsun dedicated store on Aliexpress that has been around for ages. Also, pretty sure no one is selling fake phones with legit Apple CPUs, where did you get that idea from?

          Also what do you mean by "losing BIOS", it falls out or something?

          Plenty of motherboards are manufactured in China (whether by Chinese companies or otherwise) and Maxsun have been around for decades. I don't know where you got your ideas from on this.

          • Ozzster on 26/03/2025 - 20:32
            -5

            @freefall101: Its not obvious what is fake if it has original cpu on non-original everything else. I know not only the idea, but also who, how, makes it, and how sells it. Ask a specific question if interested.

            BIOS just gets damaged and needs re-flashing. What exactly ideas you don't get?

            • freefall101 on 26/03/2025 - 21:07
              +3

              @Ozzster:

              Its not obvious what is fake if it has original cpu on non-original everything else. I know not only the idea, but also who, how, makes it, and how sells it. Ask a specific question if interested.

              How do they manage to build a phone with an Apple SoC? That would involve compatible hardware all the way through the stack and drivers to support it. It also includes most of the hardware to actually run as an iPhone.

              BIOS just gets damaged and needs re-flashing. What exactly ideas you don't get?

              How does it get damaged? The BIOS is just a simple set of instructions on how the computer is configured, if it works it's extremely rare for it to "break" and it's not an expensive component.

              Look, I know you're just making this stuff up, but I'm curious to see where this goes.

              • Ozzster on 26/03/2025 - 21:23
                -5

                @freefall101: How do they manage to build a phone with an Apple SoC?

                They don't build a phone as such, but the amount of components taken from another phones or actually manufactured nearby can be over 50% easily. Like another battery, another screen, case, everything that doesn't get checked properly by the system. In result you get a Frankenstein no one knows made of what % of used/repaired/nonoriginal components. Just glue it properly and will look like new :)

                How does it get damaged?

                Ask vendors. I do repairs, not designs. My best guess is that not properly protected from shorts, spikes, low quality mem and other chips, poorly made selfrefresh with ME and IC, etc. I only can tell for sure that some brands and models don't have such issues, but chinese ones do have it. And when you go to the seller to ask for BIOS there may be no reply.

      • perfectlydark on 26/03/2025 - 20:06
        -5

        cool, ill pass

  • HandsomeMonkey on 26/03/2025 - 19:59

    I'm curious to know why motherboard manufacturers don't put SoDimm slots in the ITX motherboard instead of UDimm?

    • tephra on 26/03/2025 - 20:05

      probably lots of reasons, but if space is a concern (ie the difference between SODIMM and UDIMM) then things like the 12v power connectors should be the first thing to be revised.

      its crazy (to me) that the PSU needs 24+8 connections to the motherboard…

      • HandsomeMonkey on 26/03/2025 - 20:49

        Ahh yeah, the PSU motherboard connector.

    • vid_ghost on 26/03/2025 - 20:22
      +6

      Its hard to find SODIM with large sizes and low timings :).. they always cost more and are slower

      • LilSlip on 26/03/2025 - 21:23
        +3

        Instead of being an (profanity) about it, why not be actually helpful?

        OP, ITX motherboards with Sodimms exist- see minisforum's bd795i, or most n100 nas boards. But they're not as viable due to what vid-ghost mentioned.

        • Ozzster on 26/03/2025 - 21:28
          -6

          There was a question only, nobody asked help.

    • Wayne7497 on 27/03/2025 - 03:06

      They do search Google for cwwk

  • CHUNITHM Luminous on 26/03/2025 - 20:18
    +1

    Seems like a pretty good board, I've seen testing with 9900X running at 200W+ with PBO without much issue. Of course this board is probably suited more towards something with lower TDP like 9700X or 7700. Compared to something like the Jginyue B650i it has more frequent BIOS updates and better memory support. Plus Maxsun is probably a more trustworthy brand than Jginyue

  • buffalo bill on 26/03/2025 - 21:04
    -1

    Not that Maxsun is bad but damn building in ITX is shiiiit. You probably get an MATX like an MSI PRO from your corner Centrecom for this coin with warranty support and less chance of component compatibility issues. Everything ITX costs more, runs hotter and its crap to build in.

    • LilSlip on 26/03/2025 - 21:25
      +3

      Just curious, when was the last time you built ITX? A lot of what you're saying doesn't reflect the experience I've had.

      • CHUNITHM Luminous on 26/03/2025 - 21:27
        +1

        Yeah would depend on the case and components you use. Most aren't going to be too hard to build in compared to mATX.

      • buffalo bill on 27/03/2025 - 03:17

        Recently. An Intel system LGA1700 where all i had to choose from sub 200 were maxsun and on low featured asrock board. mATX had all brands in that price range. Then you're limited on coolers (possible ram issues), gpus etc

        • MrChumps on 27/03/2025 - 21:44

          Cooler Master NR200 is an ITX case that cost about $99

          Can fit air coolers up to 155mm in height, 158mm without the side bracket so you can slap in a Thermalright Peerless Assasin,Phantom Spirit or a 240mm/280mm AIO. Has 3 expansions slots so you can fit a reference 5090 and some 4090's into it.

          Yes ITX motherboards cost more due to them packing in more features and its a niche product which can drive up the price.

          • buffalo bill on 28/03/2025 - 15:07
            -2

            @MrChumps: Cases are not the issue. If you're building ITX you're compromising everything else for the case.

      • scottySK on 27/03/2025 - 06:19

        He's still living in 2005

    • CHUNITHM Luminous on 26/03/2025 - 21:26

      The average mATX build is going to much, much bigger than a good ITX build. Of course the thermals are going to worse and the cases are harder to build in. It's a trade off for the space savings of going ITX.

    • FujinShu on 26/03/2025 - 21:50
      +3

      Economies of scale. ITX systems are a bit of a niche compared to ATX, so of course ITX boards will cost more since there is lower volume than mATX.

    • Wally Simmonds on 26/03/2025 - 21:52
      +3

      Agree, I've gone down the path with a Dancase A4 a few years back (3700x 2080TI build from memory) and went back to full ATX as it was just a pita any time I wanted to do something. Noise levels were a bit crap as well.

      I've since built a Dancase A3 build with MATX and it just gives you so many more options. I doubt I'll be going back to ITX again in a hurry

      • Dealf Hunter on 26/03/2025 - 22:13

        Got my A3 pre-built yesterday from Nebula and it's 👌

      • buffalo bill on 27/03/2025 - 05:03
        +1

        A3 is a nice compact mATX, and there are some other nice ones on the market. Clearly there are ITX enthusiasts but for most situations your are paying extra cost and compromising the outcome for a tiny amount of volume which is often nessessary around components so you do not have one great thermal mass.

      • buyerbee on 27/03/2025 - 22:02
        +1

        Tend to agree with these sentiments. Whilst it is awesome to have a supercharged compact little box it can be a nightmare to deal with at times, especially if you want to have any kind of decent CPU cooler stacked in there on top of everything.

    • LilSlip on 26/03/2025 - 21:26
      +1

      To summarise a loaded and complex topic, it is much harder to get a Sodimm to operate at the speed and latency of a regular DIMM.

  • GordonD on 26/03/2025 - 21:44
    +1

    Damn, when I thought I was clicking to abandon my edit to my previous post because someone else has already responded, I was unpublishing it. And I can't figure out how to un-un-publish it.

    So I'll have to write it again.

    I just bought an ASRock B850 ITX motherboard to replace my previous ASUS A620 MATX motherboard. Transferred the 8600GE CPU and DDR5-6000 RAM over. I only bought the A620 MATX board as an interim solution until I could get a 8K series chipset ITX motherboard that would give me 40 Mb/s USB4 with my CPU.

    But the ASRock B850 board only runs the EXPO DDR5-6000 RAM at 4800, and there doesn't seem to be any setting in the BIOS to select full speed, or even to turn on EXPO. I've tried the dealer, but you can't expect them to know the ins and outs of the BIOS for every board they sell. And I've tried ASRock support but they don't respond. I'm not sure if that's better or worse than with my last ASRock board where they insisted a certain important feature worked, when it didn't.

    If that's what a buyer gets when they buy a mainstream name brand board, claimed features that don't work, and unhelpful or no support, why not buy cheap Chinese.

    (PS: I'm another one who'd prefer ITX boards to be available that use SO-DIMMs rather than full-sized DIMMs to make room for more important things, rather than have inconvenient silliness like putting M.2 sockets on the back of the board where you've got to pull the PC apart to get at them. If other people want the biggest amount of RAM and the fastest they can buy the ones with DIMMs, but some of the rest of us would prefer SO-DIMMs.)

    • scud70 on 26/03/2025 - 21:57
      +1

      Well on my NR200 I really appreciated that the m.2 was at the back, in my initial build I put my OS drive in the top m.2 and when I got a bigger drive for my game storage I didn't have to do anything other than open the back panel and put the nvme in… I actually had to take most of my build apart to change the OS drive when I got a better one … So in my case i appreciated the m.2 at the back. If SO-DIMMs were at the same speed and not much more expensive id be all for them.

      • buyerbee on 27/03/2025 - 22:00

        Agreed, it can be super convenient and an extra m2 slot is always appreciated

  • Wiadro on 26/03/2025 - 23:24

    looks good for my intel

    • realrift on 27/03/2025 - 15:30

      Good upgrade from intel

  • Mcfatthegiant69 on 27/03/2025 - 16:00
    +1

    Thanks, got one for $156 with coins and $20 discount. Perfect for my ryzen 7700 and 7800xt ;)

  • elcheapoinoz on 27/03/2025 - 16:12
    +2

    Maxsun is a solid brand. They make good ITX mobos and GPUs.

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