AM5 motherboards with midrange B650 and B650E chipsets are finally available, but the affordability many were hoping for hasn't materialized.
The cost of building a Ryzen 7000 PC is pretty high. The CPUs are expensive , DDR5 RAM hasn’t come down in price yet, and the only motherboards you could buy at launch were high-end X670 and X670E boards with features that most people didn’t need or want.
While the B650 and B650E are cheaper than the X670 and X670E, they barely get into the midrange territory that old B350, B450, and B550 boards were in and totally miss the promised $125 mark. ASRock’s B650M PG Riptide motherboard is the cheapest you can currently find on Newegg, and it costs $169. In fact, most B650 boards seem to cost between $200 and $300, which isn’t all that much lower than the X670.
Disappointing, but not entirely out of left field This isn’t the first time AMD has disappointed people with midrange motherboards. Back when AMD launched Ryzen 3000, the only new chipset available was X570, which was a high-end solution like the X670. It took nearly a year for the B550 to launch, and when it did, the really cheap models that were less than $150 sold out very quickly.
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