A little over a month has passed since the highly anticipated introduction of the Ryzen 7000, the new generation of AMD processors that, as you know, arrived on the market a few days ago and from which we were able to test the Ryzen 9. 7900X and Ryzen 5 7600X models, which as you can see They left us with a very, very good taste. and is looking forward to being able to face them against the already very close Raptor Lake when the arrival of the next generation of processors from both manufacturers is complete.

However, it happens that during this jump to a new architecture, users who want to adopt it they have to invest not only in the processoreven in other components such as the motherboard and if they didn’t have it before, in this case also in DDR5 RAM, well remember that this is the only type of memory compatible with Ryzen 7000. And depending on which cases, on all in the first moments, it is not always possible to have the most suitable options.

In the case of the Ryzen 7000, as we told you back then, There are three chipsets for AMD’s new platform: X670E, X670 and B650. In the case of the former, the E comes from Extreme, which no longer makes its market segment clear, which is none other than the top of the range where maximum performance is everything. The X670 is aimed at the higher end, and the B650 is aimed at the large consumer market, the middle class that wants to take advantage of the advantages of the next generation, but that is looking for a balance between moderate costs. and good performance.

It will happen that together with the sale of the first processors The first boards with the X670 and X670E chipsets arrivedwhich make perfect sense for users who have opted for a Ryzen 9 7950X or 7900X, but could balance the budget of a user who wants to build a mid-range system with a Ryzen 5 7600X, in which case the price of the motherboard may be the same or higher than the CPU.

If this was the case for you, the more than good news is that GIGABYTE, which already has a wide range of high-end motherboards for Ryzen 7000, has already introduced its motherboards with the B650 chipsetan offer made up of at least eight motherboards, of which seven from the AORUS family and the eighth from the AERO family, in three variants on the same chipset:

• B650E: top of the line in this family. It offers PCIe 5.0 support for storage and graphics.
• B650: standard within this chipset family. It offers PCIe 4.0 support for storage and graphics, and optional 5.0 for storage.
• B5650M: similar to the previous one, but in MicroATX format.

We made this clarification, let’s take a look at the boards presented by GIGABYTE:

B650E AORUS MASTER: Support up to 128 gigabytes (32×4) DDR5-6600(OC) with AMD EXPO and XMP support, 1 PCI Express x16 port (PCIe 5.0), 1 M.2 port (Socket 3, key M, type 25110/2280 ) PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, ATX format (30.5 x 24.4 centimeters).

B650 AORUS ELITE AX: Support up to 128 gigabytes (32×4) DDR5-6600(OC) with AMD EXPO and XMP support, 1 PCI Express x16 port (PCIe 4.0), 1 M.2 port (Socket 3, key M, type 25110/2280 ) PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, ATX format (30.5 x 24.4 centimeters).

B650 AORUS ELITE: Support up to 128 gigabytes (32×4) DDR5-6600(OC) with AMD EXPO and XMP support, 1 PCI Express x16 port (PCIe 4.0), 1 M.2 port (Socket 3, key M, type 25110/2280 ) PCIe 5.0, ATX format (30.5 x 24.4 centimeters).

B650 AORUS FOR AX: Support up to 128 gigabytes (32×4) DDR5-6600(OC) with AMD EXPO and XMP support, 1 PCI Express x16 port (PCIe 4.0), 1 M.2 port (Socket 3, key M, type 25110/2280 ) PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, ATX format (30.5 x 24.4 centimeters).

B650M AORUS ELITE: Support up to 128 gigabytes (32×4) DDR5-6600(OC) with AMD EXPO and XMP support, 1 PCI Express x16 port (PCIe 4.0), 1 M.2 port (Socket 3, key M, type 25110/2280 ) PCIe 5.0, MicroATX format (24.4 x 24.4 centimeters).

B650M AORUS FOR AX: Support up to 128 gigabytes (32×4) DDR5-6600(OC) with AMD EXPO and XMP support, 1 PCI Express x16 port (PCIe 4.0), 1 M.2 port (Socket 3, key M, type 25110/2280 ) PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, MicroATX format (24.4 x 24.4 centimeters).

B650M AORUS ELITE AX: Support up to 128 gigabytes (32×4) DDR5-6600(OC) with AMD EXPO and XMP support, 1 PCI Express x16 port (PCIe 4.0), 1 M.2 port (Socket 3, key M, type 25110/2280 ) PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, MicroATX format (24.4 x 24.4 centimeters).
B650 AERO G: Support up to 128 gigabytes (32×4) DDR5-6600(OC) with AMD EXPO and XMP support, 1 PCI Express x16 port (PCIe 4.0), 1 M.2 port (Socket 3, key M, type 25110/2280 ) PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, ATX format (30.5 x 24.4 centimeters).

More information: GIGABYTE