No reviews at all for this model, it is a b650e on the asus wesite, anyone want to shout their experience with this one?
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could you link it for me I can't see it
Type ASUS PRIME B650EM-A into Google and it should pop up
im seeing the one without the E
Also just had a quick look, supposedly the VRMs get pretty hot.
Latest HUB video indicates Asus Prime B850 boards are complete shit, technical term. I'd just avoid their whole range tbh
The VRM will only get that hot for 1% of its normal user workloads in its lifetime, will be fine, too much focus on 100% load not real life load
Different models, different chipsets.
the prime series B650 boards are pure garbage. overcooking VRMs / throttling
https://www.techspot.com/review/2861-amd-b650-motherboards-p…
https://www.techspot.com/review/2828-amd-b650-motherboard-bu…
pretty much the same as the prime b850 boards as well..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLMTT7-rfeM&t=1517s
I would be buying this…
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/motherboards/amd-socket-…
$231 with the OCAU discount..
No reviews around.. but all the tuf series b650 boards have been decent so far..
instead of 231 ASRock B850M Pro-A WiFi for 259 seemed pretty decent
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/motherboards/amd-socket-…
does have good reviews as well
There's been quite a few AMD CPU dying in Asrock boards,
they claimed to have fixed it.. but there are still reports of cooking AM5 CPUs in asrock boards..
At the moment, its still a stay away for me….. especially if buying thoese OEM CPUs from Aliexpress with no retail warranty..
damn did not know that, I was going for the aliexpress cpus as well lol thanks for the shout I think the tuf one should be good
@Al Mawsil: Should be fine ive tested this an no problems good luck, u did ask for experience and others are 'claimed' good luck on deciding.
Not sure if you've personally tested this, but ive built one with this and not seeing smoke coming from Motherboard, nor do i smell anything cooking, or garbage anywhere?
N=1…
read the reviews on the Prime B650 / B850 series unacceptably hot running.. compared to most other offerings.. from their competititors..
strangely enough the Prime X870/X670 are decent for the price…
You need to test for yourself, nothing abnormal here…
This is also an option
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/911795
I think theres a $20 USD steam voucher.. with purchase. which may or may not have expired…
PCI-express 5.0 is currently working on this.. and addendum sheet in the box, confirms. asus support PCI-express 5.0 on the GPU slot..
I went with this board recently, no issues so far.
I've seen bad reviews for that one for both this model the 2.0 update, via hardware unboxed b850 sub 200 lineup
and it doesn't have PCI-express 5.0 support on the GPU slot.
An the Asrock Killing CPU issues, whcih, we don't know if its been fixed properly.. and unstability issues..
Its mainly with the X3d chips..
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/like-intel-before-it…
https://www.slashgear.com/1913097/why-asrock-am5-motherboard…
https://www.thefpsreview.com/2025/05/09/reports-of-dead-amd-…
Why is the warranty period listed as 1 year? Don't Asus motherboards come with 3 years warranty?
https://www.asus.com/me-en/motherboards-components/motherboa…
On AM4 currently and I'm holding out for AM6
The VRM is fine, perfect for browsing ozbargain.com.au since its all everyone will be doing anyway…
Don't get this 2dpc ewaste with garbage VRM cooling (prime B650EM-A), it's worse than even some budget A620 on the market and outright fails VRM testing @ 104c… (an a620i lightning for example passes the test @ 80c…)
https://www.techspot.com/review/2633-amd-b650-motherboards/
https://www.techspot.com/review/2867-amd-am5-mini-itx-mother…
Get the B650M-HDV/M.2 instead around $220aud - it has the headroom to hit former world records for 7950x @ 357w OC (in the hwbot submission screenshot, hwinfo64 package 362w) - nearly double the required power of a stock 9950x3d @ 200w PPT.
CPU Record Run: https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/7-zip/submissions/5474988
By far the best AM5 OC board under $800 (yes, that's not a typo), it's one of the rare 1DPC boards with an optimized trace layout, at a certain point it held the 2nd place for AMD memory speed record @ 11000mhz…
RAM Record Run: https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/memory_frequency/submissions/56…
You will not find a better board until x670 tachyon / x870 crosshair hero @ $1200+ with proper nitro modes and eCLK, unless you can find a used x670e gene for $800-900.
Even the 1DPC X870-I Strix @ $800 is outright worse than this B650M-HDV on memory / overclocking headroom.
It's better than any of the mid to high-end $400-600 4dimm ATX B850 or X870 boards in terms of OC performance.
All the 2DPC based slop (strix, aorus, tomohawk etc.) have latency and stability penalties from the 4dimm layout and be outright unstable on higher speed ram kits (7200-8800) that the B650M-HDV or any other decent 2dimm board would be garunteed to run with headroom to spare on looser auto / EXPO timings, whereas the former needs manual tuning to even go above 6000-6400.
https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/asrock-b650m-hdv-m-2-mic…
best built AM5 board under $1000, this unicorn is good enough to run world records (and beats out nearly all of the high end x670/x870 lol, it's the current go-to for 10000mt/s+ in the OC space)
newegg is a bit suboptimal, we had local stock a while back below 300 :(
100 dollar shipping lol
Easily worth it, everything am5 at this price range maybe except a620i lightning and the maxsum esport can barely even run low-bin EXPO kits.
1DPC is so hard to find except for the top of the range boards (x670 gene, x870 apex, all $1000) these days.
@Al Mawsil: I mean it's pretty well known in the OC community, before the HDV released your only option for running higher quality RAM was basically to get the X670E gene or one of the other halo tier boards lol
Recently (this month) Gigabyte launched a B850M Force that's also 1DPC but it's a bit too new that people are struggling to run 8600+, might need some more microcode updates before it's viable over the HDV/M.2.
Does it fry the cpu like the other asrock boards?
If you're getting a CPU from Ali without warranties then i would get a board that has bullet-proof reliability. These MSI boards are imo the best when it comes to that. They are also great value.
@deebee8: Yeah thanks, I keep going around in circles trying to find a motherboard for a reasonable price. I do see this one come up a lot, do you happen to have any recommendations for an ATX board?
@Hoddi: All of the full size ATX boards within a reasonable budget are outright significantly less stable than the Micro-ATX / ITX options due to having 4 dimm slots, it's just how it is.
B650 HDV/M.2, B850 Force, B850 Edge TI, X670 Gene, X870 Apex in terms of cheapest to most expensive.
If you want to avoid ASRock you can go with the B850 Force, but It's only garunteed to 8200-8600 or so and 9000 is difficult, whereas the HDV/M.2 can do 9000+ pretty easily.
(and the board being more stable at high freq indicates that you will have tigher auto-trained timings on 6000 EXPO etc and much faster boot times).
Same story on the Edge TI if you want MSI specifically, it's better than any ATX options below 1k but still not as good as the HDV.
v3.25 BIOS onwards is fixed.
It's a function of board overshoot on TDC / EDC under PBO, which has been resolved for a while.
The only MSI board that's ahead of this one for performance would be the X870 GODLIKE, and that's $2100.
The B650M-HDV is better for signal integrity and memory stability than the $800 X870E carbon, don't compare it to the MAG or Gaming Plus… bruh…
$179 at Scorptec, $177 at Umart….