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MSI Reveals a Single AMD A620 Chipset Based Motherboard

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Unlike its competitors, MSI has only revealed a single AMD A620 chipset based motherboard today and it's extra underwhelming, even though none of the boards are exactly what we'd call appealing. The Pro A620M-E only sports a pair of DDR5 DIMM slots and it has a single PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and a single PCIe 3.0 x1 slot, as well as a single PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 NVMe slot. Internal connectivity is equally sparse, with a single USB 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps header and four SATA 6 Gbps ports.

Around the back you'll find an HDMI 2.1 port, a VGA port, two PS/2 ports, four USB 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps ports, two USB 2.0 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet jack and three audio jacks behind the ancient Realtek ALC897 audio codec. MSI appears to have gone for potentially slightly better power regulation than its competitors, but it's hard to tell from just looking at the board, but you don't get a VRM heatsink here. The chipset heatsink also looks like something from 20 years ago, but hopefully the AMD A620 chipset doesn't run too hot. This should hopefully be a very affordable board, but judging by ASUS' pricing for its A620, it might not be under $100.


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Those specs would be more than enough, if it sold for 75 bucks or less.
 
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looks like a board for 50$, oh i forgot with AM5 its a Premium Board for 100$:laugh:
 

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This MB would have to be really, really cheap to be worth purchasing. At 75 USD, sure, I'd consider it. But anything even close to 100 USD, the value disappears out the window.

I know A620 is bottom of the stack, but maaan. Many areas of the PC component game is in a price-to-performance freefall.
 
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