I hope your channel becomes as big as Optimum's tech. I started my ITX Journey with an NR200 and your videos on how to orient the fans for optimal cooling! Thank you for the amazing videos!

Nice to see a thorough review of my board! I didn’t realize the M.2 heatsink had GPU clearance problems as I use a Meshroom S case so I have a riser cable. I did have some issues mounting an NH-L12S though. Thankfully I noticed before I damaged anything but it hit the M.2 heatsink and I had to flip the whole cooler around the other way to make it fit. Just a heads up for anyone trying a similar build.

Absolutely love the vibe of this channel

This videos and breakdowns on this channel are never disappointing.

Great review as always. I've removed the fan from the m.2 heatsink and I use the header for the top fans. My KC3000 hits a max temp of 56°C

Loving all the ITX mobo content lately!

Fantastic in depth coverage for SFF motherboards which is sorely lacking elsewhere! I hope you cover the new Asrock B650I ITX motherboard too!

Nice review as always!!!

thank you for these reviews!

Really appreciate the comprehensive review of AM5 ITX boards. There was a surprising lack of review coverage when I was buying a few months back. Got the ASUS B650 and have been very happy with it. Are you planning to review the upcoming Gigabyte A620 board? I tentatively recommended it to a friend, as it looks like it should be able to handle the 7000 series pretty well, especially the lower powered ones, and if the rumored price of ~$100 is accurate, I'm sure it will be a tempting option for many small AM5 builds.

Amazing. I subscribed. I am buying this board. Thank you.

Thank you for the review. I chose this board over the asus b650e-i even though the asus is cheaper in germany. The reason was the vrm fan and problems i had with the prior b550 variant. I just wanted to let you know that i observed the same clock frequency behaviour on my 7700x. Allowing the 200mhz boost fixed it as you suggested and it also fixed my stability issues. Thanks for the help!

Been looking forward to this review as it's one of the mobo manufacturers that are shipping direct into the UK, thus they will honour their warranty, unlike Gigabyte (which I have in writing from them as I made an inquirey). Now for the summary vid and hearing your thoughts on all these mobos, especially in regards to future AMD CPUs, such as a Zen 5 x3D and faster memory speeds. At present you are one of the very few channels that are doing a good job for the SFF market. Weird as a friend just dropped off an aging Dell Inspiron 660S which is ~40x28x10 cm, rocking a core i3, just to prove that SFF pcs have been in the mainstream market for quite a while.

I just finished a build with this board and am pretty happy with it so far. The motherboard flashes the power button during memory training to make up for no debug lights. This is the only AM5 board I have worked with but I noticed it defaulted in BIOS to prioritizing the iGPU which causes ReBAR to not function. Changing to prefer dGPU in BIOS fixed that issue. Not sure if that is a common issue or not on AM5. I used the 2a fan header to run 4 case fans while still using the M.2 Fan in a air cooled setup in a Sliger Cerberus. I like how many USB 2.0 ports this board has. Mice and audio interfaces have given me weird issues on higher spec ports for some reason, but work fine on USB 2.0.

The pricing in Canada for these is like this the last 4 months Asus X670E , 529 to 559 B650E , 429 MSI B650 , 419! Gigabyte B650 , 329 to 359 ASRock B650E , 349 I monitored all brands QVL Lists since June,and only Gigabyte and Asus regularly update them,Giga doing The best job,with bi monthly updates ! Asus being monthly,and minor at that. Only a few kits being added,8000+ Mts and mostly name brand big three, whereas Gigabyte has added all brands NEW Kits low end ,to ultra high end. I decided to go ASUS B650E + 2x32Gb 6000 this Black Friday and a 7600 non X, and or a 7800X3D depending on discounts for the X3D. Great video as always !

Very happy with mine. It's a UK-supply board, no chipset fan (which would drive me mad) and a decent not-over-the-top feaure set. I removed the m2 fan and used as a passive heatisnk as I don't see a need for active cooling on a Gen4 M2.

Fingers crossed for the same review of B760 ITX boards ;) I am going to build in Jonsbo D31 with 13600KF. It is an upgrade from Nr200 on 11600KF, maybe you can touch into mATX as well?

Thank you !

Thanks a lot. Finished a fractal design itx build yesterday and was looking for some answers on why it does not boot, respectively why the front light is flashing. Seems to be a ram issue and I will need to double check the slots. Any other ideas?

hello, thanks for the review but nex time could you please move the boards the botto left so we can see well how the audio ports are thanks in advance

If it wasn't for the colour scheme i would have probably gone with this one over the Asus board. This one definitely has some of the best feature set, layout and the m.2 slot doesn't have a dauhterboard so it's not raised up like on the Asus board, which can be annyoing for m.2 cooler compatibility.

I ended up buying this board after weighing the pros and cons versus the Asus B650E. It just had the better overall featureset for my needs, the main one being Intel LAN and wifi chips. So far I’m quite happy with it.

When I was considering the 7800X3D this was the board I was going to get just because of how many usb ports it had. There weren't really any other options if you need 6-7 usb ports when i was looking to upgrade. Just decided to skip this gen all together though.

Thanks for the informative video .Motherboard is out of focus. I cant see where you are pointing at.

I really enjoyed the music in this video. What is the song in the beginning?

Any chance you could test stock wifi performance of the b650 itx boards?

It's not like there is much of a choice but the PG is my fav AM5 Mini ITX board thus far. The m2 fan is trash but easily taken care of...

Great review. Few questions. 1. For gaming only builds do you think users would notice the low speed rear USB? 2. Have you thought about doing any type of air cooler compatibility test? The asus and asrock boards seem to be more centrally located where the gigabyte appears to be a further north. Probably would be more noticeable on top down coolers. 3. Any thoughts on a long term follow up in regards to bios support as we all hope AM5 is as long lasting as AM4.

I just put together a build in the NR200 with a 7800X3D and a 6950XT and I used this motherboard. It's been absolutely killing it so far.

I hope ASRock will release another good 'e' chipset in iTX. Strong sources say the next generation CPUs will be officially revealed and released this year.

Nice

Hi great channel. Do you know if the bios can be updated with an incompatible cpu like 7800x3d installed to enable compatibility? Or will you need another none x3d, 7000 series cpu at hand for bios update?

I got the MSI MPG B650I, and I think that was the best choice outside of the very expensive ASUS offerings, not because of its features but it's lack of weirdness like that cable for the M.2 Fan, why did they do that!?!?

Honestly all the Ryzen 7000 mini itx boards have been a big let down imo. Also that m.2 fan cable is atrocious 😅😅😅

As much as i disliked the X3D scandal surrounding Asus, the asrock would've cost me 50€ more in my region. I found the config/ features would be enough for a gaming rig (and possible ROG resale value).

If it's not weird it's not ASRock. Quirky but often good.

Cant you just leave the cover off and remove the fan and cable and just add an M.2 with a heat sink?

is it safe to remove the m.2 heatsink and use an m.2 ssd with built in heatsink? + at the end you are only able to use 3 fans?

I bought this motherboad. To me this is the best motherboard available in EU. Great to see it covered. You might ask why I said this is great, let me explain: -MSI motherboard has CMOS issues for ITX where most come with empty CMOS battery because of the long button for reset CMOS hitting the box and consuming the battery. Bought one and after building it had to dissasemble it to return it. Waste of time and effort. -Asus scared me off because of the burning CPU issues. Its a huge NO-NO. -Gigabyte is the winner if you can buy it, sadly not available in EU or craaaazy expensive in EU. -Asrock keeps the PCIE Gen 5 and a good price and stable. Solid as-a-rock 😂 Built my NR200 Ryzen 9 7900 server with 64GB DDR5 and 7 fans (2 top, 2 bottom, 2 middle and 1 in noctua NHC14-S heatsink)for homelab proxmox with it and runs PERFECT and silent. Specially because Vmware and other Virtualization solutions only support Intel NIC. So yeah great!

I think I'll stay with Z690 for now. The MSI Z690i unify really checks every box. Maybe AM5 boards will have a decent refresh with Zen 5.

I have this motherboard. My RTX 4080 runs at PCIe 4.0 x8, not x16 like it should. Anyone seeing this issue?

Woth mentioning: the fan on asus does not kick in.. at least mine doesn't at 60degrees.

almost half of review is about heatsink... Does it really matter?

i have Dell Alienware Rtx 3090 MSI x570 godlike Ryzen 5800x overclock to 4700 corsair vengeance rgb pro sl 64gb 4x16 3600mhz Power evga 850 + 80 custom loop 2 x 360 is this good or not for 2k and one thing more can you tell me best overclock for Ryzen 5800x ..😊 Thx .. you are the best ❤

Understanding is that current generation of pcie5 nvme drives (especially the faster ones) get very hot==> the apparently ridiculous cooler is actually very justifaiable 🤨🤨

Asus coil whine goes Bzzzz

That M.2 heatsink is too big and the tiny fan is loud. Stupid idea all around.