The first b450 motherboards arrive in stores
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The first Asus, ASRock and Gigabyte B450 motherboards are already reaching major retailers. These new models will make the second generation Ryzen processors even more attractive, allowing the possibility of configuring a new equipment more economically.
Asus, ASRock and Gigabyte offer you B450 motherboards from 70 euros, an excellent opportunity to jump into the Ryzen 2000
Despite being a mid-range chipset, most of these new Asus, ASRock, and Gigabyte B450 motherboards maintain at least one 32GB / s M.2 slot for a high-speed SSD, and four DIMM slots for DDR4 memory, making it that allows us to assemble a moderate amount right now that is so expensive and easily apply it in the future. We also highlight that the AMD B450 chipset maintains the possibility of overclocking the processor and memory, something that does not happen with Intel's mid-range platform. Full support is also maintained for technologies such as XFR2, Precission Boost 2, and RAID 0/1/10 in both SATA and NVMe.
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As for specific models, the Gigabyte B450M DS3H is listed for a price of only 80 euros. Asus goes even further, with a starting price of 70 euros. The main limitation of the B450 chipset is that it only supports AMD CrossFire technology, making it impossible to use multiple Nvidia graphics cards in SLI. Another limitation is that it only offers six PCI Express 2.0 lines instead of the eight of the X470 chipset.
| X470 | X370 | B450 | B350 | A320 | X300 / B300 / A300 | Ryzen CPU | |
| PCIe 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | twenty |
| PCIe 2.0 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbit / s) | two | two | two | two | one | one | 0 |
| USB 3.0 | 6 | 6 | two | two | two | two | 4 |
| USB 2.0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| SATA 6 Gbit / s | 4 | 4 | two | two | two | two | two |
| SATA / NVME Raid | 1/1/10 | 1/1/10 | 1/1/10 | 1/1/10 | 1/1/10 | 0/1 | - |
| Overclocking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - | X300 Yes | - |
| CrossFire / SLI | Yes Yes | Yes Yes | Yes / - | Yes / - | - | - | - |
What do you think about the arrival in stores of the first AM4 motherboards with mid-range B450 chipset? Do you think they are more interesting than the X470?
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