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Wow. This is not really related to the motherboard but this guy is so friendly and helpful. Been reading the comments section and he typically replies even to the basic ones.. And Im learning a lot more even after the video through the comments section. Keep it up!
I have the same config, using 3200 mhz hyper x predator 2x8gb, yeah works fine with the gtx1650 for everyday use just fine, tho i got a 180watt cooler lc cc 120 to keep the thing quiet
@@boomwithpeter623 Too Srbine!Lcc kod nas večiti best buy!Reci mi samo jesi li imao problema sa instalacijom tog kulera pošto se dvoumim između njega i deep cool gammaxx 400...Smara me samo što ima samo jedan PWM za hladnjak za kućište i što ne podržava overclock procesora,pošto imam r5 1600 ali sjajno je znati da podržava 3600 seriju!
budget board very limited, basic, very limited...... you make it seem that 16gb of ram with a ryzen 5, is only good enough for using microsoft word and a few media programs.
I don’t think that was the case? I was trying to get across the the fact the board is fine for pretty much every pc build but lacks some fancy features. Sorry if that isn’t what you got from it
sorry i didnt mean to sound rude, its just you didnt mention any gaming compatibility, only office use. as for mother boards yes it is basic when compared to other motherboards, but if it covers what someone needs then .. but you know better than me that with the right compatible cpu ram and graphics card you got yourself a decent machine.
@@adcamenica1551 I didn't take your comment as rude, it is fine :-) I actually really like this board and it's simplicity is also it's strong point. there is less to go wrong! A lot of OEM's use this board with very high end components with no problems at all and as a budget board it allows money to be spent elsewhere on more important things like extra ram or a faster GPU. I welcome comments on the videos we make as it helps to get a sense of what people take away from them. So in this instance maybe i should have given the board more praise? Anyway thanks for the comments i appreciate your input.
completely agree with you. yeah i mean you cant please everyone all the time and perspectives are expressed and understood differently. i am not much of a gamer type or anything like that, but i do play the odd game and use the odd applications so i like to build my own cheapish computer every 5 years or so,. if the motherboard is durable and reliable, and takes the cpu socket type i need and has two ddr4 ram ports, then i think it deserves praise. today i ordered a GIGABYTE B450M S2H Motherboard anyway. its similar enough. fit for purpose and at 60 euros i am happy.
I can't believe I read all 1.1k comments😂, I'm so glad to see you sir having time to reply all of them, it's so rare to see. You made me convinced to buy this mobo, thanks a lot! You got a sub!
A good overview. THis board came in my new pre-built PC with a 2700x, RTX 2070, 16gigs of RAM etc ... and I have to be honest - in use there are no problems. I use it heavily for music production (LOTS of very heavily CPU intensive virtual instrumetns such as those from the Roland Cloud) and it is light years ahead of my old i7 7700 computer for performance. For a budget board I would highly recommend it, it's very stable and in games I am getting very close to people who have spent 3-4x on their motherboard but with the same CPU and GPU so it's really not that under powered to be honest and leaps and bounds above an office or mediacenter PC. Also the new BIOS offers support for the latest 3rd gen Ryzen 7's and Ryzen 9 CPU's which is a huge surprise being a budget board.
@@mikesunboxing I couldn't agree more. Sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a high end board, but I have been pleasantly surprised by how it handles the 2700x and the RTX 2070 - did not expect that at all but you made a great video. You weren't biased because it was a cheap board and didn't look down on people for choosing it which a LOT of reviewers do. Mine just came with the build. I used to build my own but i'm legally blind now so I've gone from building my own to buying prebuilt ones for safety more than anything - don't want to be blown across the room LOL :)
@@zoolook3264 bias on a product is never a good my to start. Sure on some reviews my expectations are set lower, but i always try and find good in a product even if it isn't immediately obvious.
Got this mobo with my prebuilt 3 yrs ago and just got an upgrade today, the mobo is really small compared to my pc case today but it works perfectly if you're in for base clocks and not into overclocking.
I love how he still replies to the comment despite how old tbis video is, you are a hero to the pc building community, you got yourself a new subscriber, cheers!
Thanks for this review! I’m building a rig for the first time in seven years and I was choosing between this and the B450. I think I’ll go with the A320M-K after all! The rest of my build is Ryzen 5 3500, GTX 1630 (50% off, put down the pitchforks), 2x8GB Kingston Fury Beast, 480GB SSD and a 650W Bronze Rated PSU. I hope everything goes well! Cheers!
ok this is my first visit and i love the overview of the motherboard (which i plan to get for basic pc). No fuzz, no frills, no nonsense just straight up overviews. I see channels bashing on motherboards with just 4+1 (or 4+2 in this case) as generally junk. It takes experience to mix and match hardware depending on user needs (not because they WILL and spend more in your shop)
I know this video is YEARS old by now but I just thought it would be worth chipping in my two cents.. Got this board when I finally decided to get back into PC gaming again (after a good ten year haitus) as a "it'll do for now" component.. You know the sort.. I fully planned to upgrade this board within a matter of months as and when the money became available to do so. That was two years ago now and I've not even felt the need to pull the thing out. This board has been ROCK solid the entire time with absolutely 0 issues from the moment it went in the case. Currently running it with a Ryzen 5 3400G, 32Gb of Corsair RAM, 1Tb Crucial NVME and an RTX 3060Ti and it runs like a dream, I honestly have no complaints at all. All in all for the price, I couldn't fault this in the slightest!
i have this MB too since 2020 and no issues at all... one thing id like to add... this solid MB is capable of OC as per their website... afaik, I've OC ram to 3200mhz from default, bec im using 3200mhz ram
I got this mb for my backup pc and it fine. Combined with ryzen 3 1200 (non af) it does the job. Nothing to write home about, but it’s ok. Pretty much everything said in this video, nicely done!
Good video, thanks for posting. I bought one of those A320 M-K , I had an old desktop PC with 32 bit architecture, so I decided to upgrade it, so far so good, it's ok for my needs I'm not a gamer.
My b450m bazooka plus got fried, so bought this one.. Previous board had so many issues, the 4 ram configure didn't work so well. Lots of time I had problem with booting up then I had to undervolt my CPU otherwise it would crash, but this motherboard doesn't have any issues, works like a charm just plug and play type of motherboard.
I have the MSI A320M-A Pro Max with 16Gb of RAM, GALAX Geforce 970 and Ryzen 3400G. Its zippy, plays CS GO at 150+ FPS, smooth as silk. Coming from a 15 year old PC this is a huge upgrade for me, should have taken the leap sooner, but the business applications were my issue, change comes with lots of work, backups, copying and installations. Was watching a video where the guy was comparing 2 setups, one a A320M like mine to a X570 board but with the same GFX Card, RAM and CPU and found little difference in several games. If I find the video again I will post the link here, was quite interesting. Bought a second motherboard for backup down the line. How my old PC has lasted 15 years, I had 3 of the same motherboards in the cupboard. Its still going by the way.
I have the A320m-k with a ryzen 5 , 16gb 3200 memory , 1tb hdd and a Maxsun ax550 4gb card and for a low end board it works fine and plays most top end games all inside a Fractal Design blue case runs fantastic .
This type of mainboard is running in my livingroom, with a Ryzen 3 2200G. And 12GB RAM, and 3GB of this for VRAM. And 3GB of VRAM for a APU is only possible with Asus! So you can also play some newer Games or retro or something, or looking some good UA-cam stuff. I think for some people is this cheap board a good compromis to other expensive boards. When you have not the money for an overkill pc, or don´t need a high performance gaming machine for your games. Or you want only an HTPC!
Nice video. I have this motheborard, Ryzen 7 2700X, 16GB of ram and Radeon RX 580. If I replace the motherboard with good one what will be the plus what I can get? Please tell me what mother board will be ok.I use the computer for gaming. And second think...in the future I want to make streaming with games. What capture you recomand and if I instal that capture will afect my frame and ping rate on game.I look forward to your reply.Thank you
Thank you for the replay. Yesterday I ordered MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS AM4 DDR4 ATX Motherboard, PowerColor Radeon Red Devil RX 5700XT 8GB Graphics Card, Corsair TM30 Performance Thermal Paste and EVGA 750 GQ 80+ GOLD 750W Semi Modular EVGA ECO Mode Power Supply PSU. From my research the changes made by me are ok and will help me in the future. I had to change the power supply because the one I have is 550 watts and this video card requires a 700 watts source, thermal paste because I will have to I put the processor on the new motherboard. I haven't bought the capture card yet because I still don't know which is ok for me. I understand that it is good for the capture card to be in another computer.
I can confirm that this board works really good after almost 1 years as a simple PC connected to the TV. Ryzen 2200g chips, 3200 (yes, clocked at this speed) ans a 256go samsung 970 evo m.2 ssd. In fact, I ended up using it quite often for basic web stuff, sat on the couch... with some drinks and nachos!
@@patricklebel1141 in suppport list show me is compatible I think is update bios not working . Same think say to me Sir Mike .Thanks you. Next week i will buy amd ryzen 2200 G
I have this board with a ryzen 3 3200g 16 ram 2666 mhz, and a rx 570 4 gb, powered by a 650w budged psu, works really well. Runs most games some on high some on low, its my first build, and im satisfied
You earned a subscriber just through the fact that you are very responsive. Love that! Wonder if this will work with a ryzen 5 3400g and an rx 580 8gb? Happy holidays!
2700x is probably pushing the limits a bit to be honest. A few more ££ and you can get the asrock b450 pro4 or steel legend which will be better or even the tomahawk max is low priced at the moment
Just to add to this, i currently own this board with an R7 2700X and RX580 with 8GB ram and it runs every single game on max settings at 60fps+, super quiet too but ive got a a few fans and a large heatsink installed.
Hi love the video. Exactly the info I was looking for. I have 16g ram, R3, and a GeForce 1650 and games work really good. Can u pls recommend me an upgrade of this motherboard. Will have to be a micro itx. Ty
1 yes that is going to be fine 2 the bottleneck is there but extremely minimal, you won't notice it except in some benchmarks 3 changing CPU normally resets the bios so settings need to be reapplied, they are not stored in the CPU or APU
Hello Mike, Im building a budget PC for gaming and I was wondering if you could give me an advice please. My setup on this MB would be GTX 1660 Super 6GB OC, AMD Ryzen 5 2600, Kingston HyperX 2x8GB 2666MHz DDR4 CL13 Predator, ADATA XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro SSD 512GB and Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD. For a case I will get NZXT H510. My questions would be - 1) What do you think about the synergy of this whole setup (any part possible bottleneck or overkill compared to the rest) ? 2) Is the stock CPU cooler enough in this specific PC case or should I consider water cooling like NZXT X62 for example ? Thank you in advance !
This is gonna be my first pc only have a budget of $310 :( I'm running a ryzen 3 3200g with a 240gb ssd 8gb ddr4 3200mhz and a extra cooling fan is that ok for a $300 pc ?
I have an athlon 200GE with decent cooler and 2 x 4GB ram at 2400mhz.This mobo has the ability to OC after a certain bios version(cpu and memory at 2667)?
Lol did u get it prebuilt i got this exact pc prebuilt and I hate it so I wanna get a ryzen 5 3600 and gtx 1650 super and also more and faster 2x8gb 3200mhz ram
Hello. I was interested in buying this to go in my new PC I'm building. I was wondering if I can use an AMD Athlon 3000g on it. (Because it's going to be a budget build)
Thanks forr the video. Very informative. I have had this board for over a year with a Ryzen 5 3400 CPU and it runs really well. Which GPU would you recommend for this board for gaming ?
@@OlettaLianoI do have to say, that with a $45 USD Mobo, you probably aren't looking for an upgrade path (why buy a $45 board to support a $400+ cpu?) It does support the new 3400G CPU - sounds like an excellent solution for a Home Theatre PC (would have been more ideal with an optical out).
@@OlettaLianoGreat point on "one PC to rule them all!" :) I have 3 PC's that I manage at home. Gaming laptop that I take on the road when I have to travel. Desktop that is my hobby/gaming rig (not much of a gamer anymore, but I still love hardware) and a gaming tablet that I made into a HTPC. It works well with a wireless mouse and keyboard for watching stuff that you can't get on our Smart TV or Apple TV (we watch some out of region stuff). Each machine has its purpose. I am a geek.
Gonna buy this board, most likely next week, for an A8-9600 build I've wanted to do for a long time. Just going to be a combined home-media server, DVD drive and light gaming console-emulator. Just gonna connect it to the TV, plug in a joypad and a small wireless keyboard/touchpad combo. Gonna get a hold of an old Lenovo SFF case, that's mATX compliant and a PSU of about 240W and I'll be golden. Have spare SSD, HDD and RAM, so... I even have a Radeon Pro WX 2100, that I bought for cheap 1½ year ago. xD
Really a nice video very helpful since a lots of builds on market ranging from price $400-$600 has an a320m motherboard paired with ryzen 5 or 3 And as for me a novice from this would like to ask if I should stick to a320 motherboard for the meantime or extend the budget for b450(most likely a biostar brand and it has mostly a negative reviews) for a ryzen 5 3400g Appreciate much and here is a like and a subscribe!!
Got this board with a ryzen 7 5700x and it’s smooth as butter with a 4060 ,will be upgrading though that’s just my sons starter set up for now while he gets used to using keyboard and mouse .
What do you think about this. I've been buying parts to build a gaming PC that allows me to play the best titles for the next, 3, 4 years. I don't care about 4k or 800 frames per second, I'm not a competitive gamer. As long as they run above 60fps, with great quality with a decent 1440p monitor, I'm happy. So, I decided to buy this A320 Mobo, it allowed me to buy the base for a gaming PC, all at once (it was a "it's now or never" descision) without geting evicted from my aparment and I believe I made a good investment: A320M-K MOBO Ryzen 3600 8GB 2936Mhz RAM Stick (I'll buy another 8GB stick later) EVGA 600B 80+ PSU 2TB Hard Drive 240GB SSD Boot Drive Now, I have it up and running on my dekstop with an old GTX 670, it's perfectly fine for good 2010 - 2016 titles at 1080p. But now all I have to do is finish saving for my RTX2070 and I'll have all the horsepower for good recent and upcming titles without having to worry about framerates anymore.
seems like a great combo to me. The graphics card is obviously holding you back at the moment but when you upgrade it will be a night and day experience
Nice video, Sir Mike, if I update a new bios that would fit for Ryzen 5 3500x, Do i really need to update it using ryzen 2000 series cpu or the 3500x is just enough for updating the bios? Im new and still learning.
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You're so helpful with replying to comments. Too bad I didn't found your channel earlier as I need to pick up my new PC tomorrow but being a computer dummy I don't know if what I've ordered is any good. 😟
@@mikesunboxing Thank you! I'll be sure to join. If you have time, please take a look at these specs: Acer Aspire A315-54-38WD i3-8145U Dual Core 2.1GHz (Burst do 3.9Ghz) cash 4MB 2 Core. RAM 12GB DDR4 SSD 256GB. Intel UHD Graphics 620. VS AM4 AMD A320M-K Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 4 cores 3.6GHz (3.9GHz) Box Memory: DIMM DDR4 8GB 2.133MHz HDD: WD 320GB WD3200AUDX SATA3 7200 32MB. Radeon™ Vega 11 Laptop is $440 and the PC is $270 but with a 27" monitor it'll be about the same price. I just want to do some light editing/colouring in Gimp or Photoshop. Which one would you choose?
@@gacomics5951 the pc without question. the extra monitor real estate will be great for editing and the PC can easily be upgraded when funds allow. Oh and of course AMD FTW :-)
Just checked this vid out as I was looking at one of these with an R3 3200g and 8gb of ram to replace a 10 year old system used for photoshop, desktop publishing, browsing etc... I went for it after seeing this vid, I don't need any bells or whistles, so cheers for the pointers mate...
Thanks for the great overview. I saw a prebuilt with this motherboard and wanted to do some research on it. Wow its a cheap board and I can see some PC websites still using this motherboard a lot in late 2022 :( The PC I was looking at has a 3200G in it, probably perfect for this board, but I was thinking of doing the bios update to allow it to have a 5000 series CPU and putting in a 5500 with a GTX 1070 for a 1080p gaming PC. Do you think the motherboard could handle a 5500 ?
Without doing a single bit of research I snapped up one of these boards today. The price was the key - I found it as a return at Amazon for less than $4. At that price how could I possibly go wrong? It obviously won’t replace my gaming rig but depending on the CPU it might make a fine upgrade for my i7 3770-based media center or a replacement computer for mom.
Mike thanks for the review. i also watched your MSI b450 gaming plus max review. Im currently using a 2700 on a a320m gigabyte board. And my vrm temps are going 60 degrees max is 70 on some instances. Should i upgrade to MSI gaming plus? Or my vrm temps are just fine?
So I got this in a pre-built and I'm very happy with it, but what do you think is the farthest I can go with this board in terms of CPU and GPU power? (For future upgrades)
Hello Dear Sir, after watching your review ,i was so convinced that i chose the Asus A320 over the Gigabyte,MSI,AsRock and Galax a320 mobos.Thankyou for the wonderful and honest review Sir.
Hey bud I have a build on the way and used this board. Not an expert as far as PCs go but what is the max ram speed this can handle out of the box? I was told that if I wanted to use 3200mhz ram I had to overclock it to support it. Is this true? If so I would really appreciate if you could tell me the steps to doing so. Thanks for any feedback!
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CHEAP and really DURABLE! My PC was hit by a lightning surge and my Monitor's power supply got fried but my System with this motherboard is still working. That 5X Protection in the box is legit!
I got this board since I didn't have much money for build my pc at first. I built it with Ryzen 5 3400G with 16GB (2x8GB) 2666mhz and it worked perfectly. I used the APU for play and graphic design too and it was ok, but if you plan to do that you need at least 16GB of ram since the APU takes a lot for itself. Now I added a EVGA GTX 1650 Super and I can play most of the games at Ultra in 1080p. I know it's a cheap pc but for now it does the work I need. I'm waiting and saving for a major upgrade next year. Totally recommend this board if you don't have much money for start your proyect!
A great no-frills motherboard that's very stable. Current setup is a Ryzen 5 1500X CPU, 16GB RAM (2x 8GB Crucial CT8G4DFS824A @2400MHz), 500GB SSD, 1TB HDD & GTX1050Ti on Win 10. The CPU idles @ 3600MHz, 43-45 Celsius (with a fan speed of 800-900 RPM) and CPU utilisation of 2-3 % (I've yet to push it over 50% with any task - even gaming). Comes with the ASUS "AI Suite" which can automatically keep all of the drivers up to date and has an inbuilt PC Cleaner that removes Windows temporary / junk files - so you only need any other apps, other than antivirus software.
I have this board with the ryzen 5 3600, rx 590, 24gb ram and m2 ssd. It works perfectly ! Easy and cheap ultra gaming. Don't need any more than this board :)
Hey, I hope you don't mind the question, but I do own this board and just bought a 2600x along with 16 GB of 2666 ram. My question is will this board allow my cpu to operate to its fullest stock potential minus over clocking? or will there be limitations. Thanks!
Do you think ryzen 5 2600 will be fine with this board? Paired witha gtx 1660 super. Either buy a new b450m board and downgrade gpu to something like a rx 5500 xt 8gb or just keep the motherboard and buy gtx 1660 super/rx 5600 xt? Im upgrading from a320m-k and athlon 200ge vega 3
the 2600 and 1660 super will work fine on here but you can't OC the processor, upgrading the board and downgrading the CPU or GPU probably isn't a good trade off
I have this motherboard right now and run it with a Ryzen 5 2600,16gb 3200 and Rx5700xt and my question would be whether a better motherboard would provide more power and whether the 3600 would be able to run on this Motherboard. Or even the new 5000 series
Thank you for the unboxing.. a lot of great advice.. for an office use, would you recommand a 250wtt power, or a 500wtt? I would add those component AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Deepcool Beta 10-PWM Radeon Vega 8 OnChip 16 GB DDR4-RAM Dual Channel (2x8GB) 2666 Mhz Crucial 512 GB M.2 SATA SSD Kingston 24x Multiformat DVD-Brenner USB WLan 2TO HDD
would upgrading to the 3400G would make a great difference (there is an extra 65 euro) Thank you very much
@@mikesunboxing thank you for the answer, I mean 250, but I have finally chosen a ATX Seasonic S12II-430B 430W that should fit better.. I will stay with 3200G to stay cost effective, thank you again
Hello Mike, Im building a budget gaming build. Ive paired this with the Ryzen 7 3700x and a Geforce GTX 960. Why do you not recommend going over a Ryzen 2700x? Asus website says its compatible so even with a bios update what would be the bottleneck?
i am using it with Ryzen 2200g, 16gb DDR4 3000mhz, 512GB NVME, 2TB SSD, 2TB HDD, GTX 1060 6GB. mainly for Video Rendering, some games and word processing. built in sound quality pretty basic, not great. but it's run everything smoothly.
I have that motherboard and amd athlon 200ge 16gb ram ssd and hdd and i plan on getting a new radeon rx 550 or 570 gpu would you recommend? I have budget pc and with integrated 2gb vega 3 gpu it runs csgo at 130 never drops under 100 fps. Processor is really good since its integrated and i would like your opinion on new gpu.
is it worth it buying a b450 just to upgrade my cpu to ryzen 5 2600? or will it be fine for gaming and not VRM overheating? I wont be upgrading to ryzen 5000
Such a nice review. I did use the same board for my dad's office pc and paired it with a ryzen 3 2200g and 8gb ram in dual channel and a 240gb m.2 ssd. The board has been very great considering the price I got it for
Hello Im planning to buy this motherboard and with a AMD Ryzen 7 2700 in it, used for 250$.It comes also with a Power Box case with that Price.I plan to add an M.2 Sasmung Evo 500 and some Psu,maybe from asus.But I'm a little bit lost about what Ram should i buy and what Gpu.Could you maybe guide me here and also I would like to hear your opinion about this setup and the price, if it's reasonable.
not sure about the value there and it will depend on the country and dollar exchange rate, here in the UK the board is often seen for less than £50 and the cpu for £160 brand new so i would weigh up the options , maybe join our discord to discuss as there are many variables
I am thinking of getting this motherboard and pairing it with a placeholder CPU (AMD a 12 9800) and in the future upgrading to a Ryzen 5 1600 I have read a few news articles about the a320 motherboards getting support for 5th gen Ryzen CPUs. Should I get an a320 motherboard with 4 ram slots or should I save up more for a b450 motherboard?
an Athlon 3000g and an a320 motherboard is all I can afford where I live. Is there a B450 motherboard at this range of price so I can at least overclock the CPU? If not do you think I should go with an Athlon 200ge instead since it doesn't offer overclocking? btw, how about a320 motherboards from other brands like ASrock and Biostar? have you got your hands on those as well? if yes which one seems to have a better build quality? thanks
they all have similar build quality at the entry level just he features differ. hard to say what other options to recommend it depends on your region and availablity
My specs atm. Asus Prime A320m-k, 2x8GB of 3000mhz Ram, 550psu, Ryzen 3 3200g. I want to upgrade My CPU and install a CPU. What’s the best possible upgrades without changing anything other than CPU? I want to get a Ryzen 7 2700x but that’s not realistic I don’t think? So I was looking at getting a Ryzen 5 3600? And getting the best possible GPU like a RX 590? But think the RX 580 OC will be the safer option? Any help/suggestions would really be appreciated☺️
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depends a lot on the other components really, but if you what an in depth discussion head over to our discord and we can work out the best solution for you and your money
Great video, sir. You really explained a lot about this MB and it's features (or lack of haha). I've had this MB for a while now with a: -Corsair LED Vengeance 3000Mhz 1x8Gb -Ryzen 3 1200 -Gtx 1050Ti -430W EVGA 80+ White I upgraded some of my parts and currently have: -Corsair LED Vengeance 3000Mhz 1x8Gb -Corsair Vengeance 3000Mhz 1x8Gb -Ryzen 5 2600 -Gtx 1070 -Same PSU Well... I'm kind of a newbie and didn't know that two different sticks of RAM would cause some unstability issues on my system and had to buy a pack of 2x8Gb to get 16Gb ram on dual channel, they're currently both running at 2133Mhz (according to BIOS). Currently I'm thinking about selling my RAM sticks and buying a pack of two sticks.. but I'm afraid of commiting another mistake and having an unstable system (My computer kinda microstutters every once in a while and it's annoying af). Appart from changing the RAM, are my components too much for my motherboard to handle?, should I also upgrade my PSU?, I'd like your opinion on this since I'm really kinda lost and haven't gotten real advice anywhere else :) Thank you in advance
I order a brand new A320 M-K but it don't power on at all, no fan spin. Could that be unsupported hardware if I'm not getting anything. If no fan spin should I put the speaker in and see if I get a code or would this board be dead on arrival?
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Going to get a MB for casual gaming and not into overclocking. Will be using Ryzen 2200g. Which one will you choose Asus A320m-k or Asrock B450m pro 4?
Hey Mike, i dont know if you are going to see this but i'll try. I have ordered asus exa320m gaming mobo. I have very limited budget and now i think that if it will be a more wise move to buy b450m k. I will use ryzen 5 3400g w/ 16gb (2x8) dual team ddr4 3200 ram. Maybe 1 or 2 year later i will upgrade cpu w/ ryzen 5 3600. I want to know your opinion
Tough one as the 3400g will overclock quite well on the b450 but the 3600 maybe won’t go much over the PBO on either board so tough choice. I would probably go b450 I think
Sir, i really casual person and didn't know anything about overclock but i do a lot heavy work with video and motion graphic such as premiere pro, davinci resolve, after effect etc Consider moving to ryzen r5 2500 with older gpu gtx970ti and 16g of RAM..do you think this motherboard can handle my "hardcore" work?
Hi, what do you think of using it with a ryzen 3900x just as a temporary solution, would it handle it ? even for some gaming and some video editing?...of course not even trying OC or stuff like that, just to be able to use my PC mainly with Corel, Illustrator till I find the board I want to really have. Thanxs in advance
Would you recommend this over the Gigabyte A320M-S2H board? Also what are the pros and cons of each? I want to know someone's opinion rather than just the board's specs. Thanks in advance!
Hello Mike. What do you think what is better option with this MB R7 2700x or R5 2600. If I use same gpu, what cpu will give me best value. I will use it for some casual gaming in 1080p, and some web browsing and yt and movie watching. I dont intend to do OC.
It would depend on the difference in price between the two Seaview is the rise in five 2600 should be retailing round by 100 UK pounds And we are seven 2700 X is approximately 150 at the moment with Black Friday deals et cetera so if you got the extra money I would say go with the 2700 the extra course will be helpful but if you wanna put the money into something else on your break like more RAM or something then that might be the better way to go specially for use a lot of the chrome tabs
Hey Mike I know this is off topic but I can't find any help I have an asus tuf b450m-plus gaming motherboard and I want to upgrade from a ryzen 3 2200g to a ryzen 5 3600 but do you know if I would be able to have a ryzen 5 3600 on my current motherboard and my other question is would a 550 watt psu be good enough all that aside great video 👍
Thanks for watching and liking the video hopefully it was useful for you to answer your question I would say the power supply should be enough but that would depend on what are the components you're planning to use such as graphics card extra fans hard drives etc and it would seem that with the latest BIOS ryzen 5 3600 is supported although you will need to do the BIOS update before you install the chip. There are numerous updates planned very shortly with a new micro card update so be on the lookout for that and good luck with your upgrade let me know how it goes
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Damn bruh this man is really replying everyone in the comments even after one year of uploading....that's nice and rare
Thanks for noticing it is what I consider to be polite and shows that we value our viewers regardless of the comment good or bad
Thanks for noticing it is what I consider to be polite and shows that we value our viewers regardless of the comment good or bad
We need more people like u 🙂
Wow. This is not really related to the motherboard but this guy is so friendly and helpful. Been reading the comments section and he typically replies even to the basic ones.. And Im learning a lot more even after the video through the comments section. Keep it up!
Glad I could help!
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I have this board with r5 3600 works fine out of the box
Thanks for the feedback
I have the same config, using 3200 mhz hyper x predator 2x8gb, yeah works fine with the gtx1650 for everyday use just fine, tho i got a 180watt cooler lc cc 120 to keep the thing quiet
@@boomwithpeter623 ja je koristim sa rx 580 trentno veliki deo igara na ultra preko 80 i vise
Once the 3500/3500x will my 3200mhz ddr4 kit be supported outright?I bought hyperX
@@boomwithpeter623 Too Srbine!Lcc kod nas večiti best buy!Reci mi samo jesi li imao problema sa instalacijom tog kulera pošto se dvoumim između njega i deep cool gammaxx 400...Smara me samo što ima samo jedan PWM za hladnjak za kućište i što ne podržava overclock procesora,pošto imam r5 1600 ali sjajno je znati da podržava 3600 seriju!
budget board very limited, basic, very limited...... you make it seem that 16gb of ram with a ryzen 5, is only good enough for using microsoft word and a few media programs.
I don’t think that was the case? I was trying to get across the the fact the board is fine for pretty much every pc build but lacks some fancy features. Sorry if that isn’t what you got from it
sorry i didnt mean to sound rude, its just you didnt mention any gaming compatibility, only office use. as for mother boards yes it is basic when compared to other motherboards, but if it covers what someone needs then .. but you know better than me that with the right compatible cpu ram and graphics card you got yourself a decent machine.
@@adcamenica1551 I didn't take your comment as rude, it is fine :-)
I actually really like this board and it's simplicity is also it's strong point. there is less to go wrong! A lot of OEM's use this board with very high end components with no problems at all and as a budget board it allows money to be spent elsewhere on more important things like extra ram or a faster GPU.
I welcome comments on the videos we make as it helps to get a sense of what people take away from them. So in this instance maybe i should have given the board more praise?
Anyway thanks for the comments i appreciate your input.
completely agree with you. yeah i mean you cant please everyone all the time and perspectives are expressed and understood differently. i am not much of a gamer type or anything like that, but i do play the odd game and use the odd applications so i like to build my own cheapish computer every 5 years or so,. if the motherboard is durable and reliable, and takes the cpu socket type i need and has two ddr4 ram ports, then i think it deserves praise. today i ordered a GIGABYTE B450M S2H Motherboard anyway. its similar enough. fit for purpose and at 60 euros i am happy.
i play games with rx 570 and ryzen 5 3600 in this motherboard XD
I can't believe I read all 1.1k comments😂, I'm so glad to see you sir having time to reply all of them, it's so rare to see.
You made me convinced to buy this mobo, thanks a lot!
You got a sub!
So nice of you - welcome to the Channel :-)
I have this last December 2019 and still using it with ryzen 3 3200g :3
nice setup
Same
Legends say he still reply’s to this day
yep still will do as long as i am able to
Can anyone tell can you put a aio cooler on this motherboard
@@penguin1548 yes you can
Just want to say you replying to all the questions and comments here creates a good community for pc builders, hope you grow big!
Thank you! We try and answer all comments as we appreciate our viewers for watching and their help in growing the Channel. Have a great day!
A good overview. THis board came in my new pre-built PC with a 2700x, RTX 2070, 16gigs of RAM etc ... and I have to be honest - in use there are no problems. I use it heavily for music production (LOTS of very heavily CPU intensive virtual instrumetns such as those from the Roland Cloud) and it is light years ahead of my old i7 7700 computer for performance. For a budget board I would highly recommend it, it's very stable and in games I am getting very close to people who have spent 3-4x on their motherboard but with the same CPU and GPU so it's really not that under powered to be honest and leaps and bounds above an office or mediacenter PC. Also the new BIOS offers support for the latest 3rd gen Ryzen 7's and Ryzen 9 CPU's which is a huge surprise being a budget board.
This board is used by a lot of OEM manufacturers, they need it to be good quality and reliable. Why spend more if you don't need to?
@@mikesunboxing I couldn't agree more. Sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a high end board, but I have been pleasantly surprised by how it handles the 2700x and the RTX 2070 - did not expect that at all but you made a great video. You weren't biased because it was a cheap board and didn't look down on people for choosing it which a LOT of reviewers do. Mine just came with the build. I used to build my own but i'm legally blind now so I've gone from building my own to buying prebuilt ones for safety more than anything - don't want to be blown across the room LOL :)
@@zoolook3264 bias on a product is never a good my to start. Sure on some reviews my expectations are set lower, but i always try and find good in a product even if it isn't immediately obvious.
I gave this board a try with a Ryzen 5 2600 and a 580 and it runs like a dream. I had more problems with my former B450 from ASRock compared go this.
Nice glad it worked out for you and you probably save some money
@@mikesunboxing Well yeah ofcourse, i had a limited budget at the time. Only thing is that you can't overclock but yeah
Got this mobo with my prebuilt 3 yrs ago and just got an upgrade today, the mobo is really small compared to my pc case today but it works perfectly if you're in for base clocks and not into overclocking.
true overclocking on this is wishful thinking
@@mikesunboxing Yep I learned the hard way😂
I love how he still replies to the comment despite how old tbis video is, you are a hero to the pc building community, you got yourself a new subscriber, cheers!
Thanks buddy appreciate it. I fully believe that the way to grow a channel and community is to engage with the viewers it makes sense to me
*gets hearted* lmao
@@rabzz1904 you blind?
Thanks for this review! I’m building a rig for the first time in seven years and I was choosing between this and the B450.
I think I’ll go with the A320M-K after all! The rest of my build is Ryzen 5 3500, GTX 1630 (50% off, put down the pitchforks), 2x8GB Kingston Fury Beast, 480GB SSD and a 650W Bronze Rated PSU. I hope everything goes well! Cheers!
hope it all goes well
ok this is my first visit and i love the overview of the motherboard (which i plan to get for basic pc). No fuzz, no frills, no nonsense just straight up overviews. I see channels bashing on motherboards with just 4+1 (or 4+2 in this case) as generally junk. It takes experience to mix and match hardware depending on user needs (not because they WILL and spend more in your shop)
Thanks for watching and commenting on the video. Glad to hear it is helpful or useful
I know this video is YEARS old by now but I just thought it would be worth chipping in my two cents.. Got this board when I finally decided to get back into PC gaming again (after a good ten year haitus) as a "it'll do for now" component.. You know the sort.. I fully planned to upgrade this board within a matter of months as and when the money became available to do so.
That was two years ago now and I've not even felt the need to pull the thing out. This board has been ROCK solid the entire time with absolutely 0 issues from the moment it went in the case. Currently running it with a Ryzen 5 3400G, 32Gb of Corsair RAM, 1Tb Crucial NVME and an RTX 3060Ti and it runs like a dream, I honestly have no complaints at all. All in all for the price, I couldn't fault this in the slightest!
awesome feedback, thank you
i have this MB too since 2020 and no issues at all...
one thing id like to add... this solid MB is capable of OC as per their website... afaik, I've OC ram to 3200mhz from default, bec im using 3200mhz ram
@@johnadams2409 you have the mobo do you know if it is compatible with the ryzen 5 5600x ?
@john Adams , you answered my question. I'm going to upgrade ram with this board and I wanted to use 3200 isntrad of 2666.
I got this mb for my backup pc and it fine. Combined with ryzen 3 1200 (non af) it does the job. Nothing to write home about, but it’s ok. Pretty much everything said in this video, nicely done!
Thanks for the info!
Eyy what graphics card did you Ehh Buy?
Good video, thanks for posting. I bought one of those A320 M-K , I had an old desktop PC with 32 bit architecture, so I decided to upgrade it, so far so good, it's ok for my needs I'm not a gamer.
Glad I could help!
My b450m bazooka plus got fried, so bought this one.. Previous board had so many issues, the 4 ram configure didn't work so well. Lots of time I had problem with booting up then I had to undervolt my CPU otherwise it would crash, but this motherboard doesn't have any issues, works like a charm just plug and play type of motherboard.
Nice and Detailed Review. You earned a Sub.
Which one should I go with: MSI A320M-A Pro Max or This One?
The pro max has a better bios but both are pretty much the same spec wise
I have the MSI A320M-A Pro Max with 16Gb of RAM, GALAX Geforce 970 and Ryzen 3400G.
Its zippy, plays CS GO at 150+ FPS, smooth as silk.
Coming from a 15 year old PC this is a huge upgrade for me, should have taken the leap sooner, but the business applications were my issue, change comes with lots of work, backups, copying and installations.
Was watching a video where the guy was comparing 2 setups, one a A320M like mine to a X570 board but with the same GFX Card, RAM and CPU and found little difference in several games.
If I find the video again I will post the link here, was quite interesting.
Bought a second motherboard for backup down the line. How my old PC has lasted 15 years, I had 3 of the same motherboards in the cupboard. Its still going by the way.
Hello there, I wanted to ask if the mobo support m.2 nvme sad? Great review by the way!
Yes it does the full info is here www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/PRIME-A320M-K/specifications/
I own this with an amd Ryzen 3 3100 and 2x8gb ddr4 ram and a 1050ti. Works absolutely fine for everything I use it for, mostly light gaming.
good - love these boards
I have the A320m-k with a ryzen 5 , 16gb 3200 memory , 1tb hdd and a Maxsun ax550 4gb card and for a low end board it works fine and plays most top end games all inside a Fractal Design blue case runs fantastic .
happy days
This type of mainboard is running in my livingroom, with a Ryzen 3 2200G. And 12GB RAM, and 3GB of this for VRAM. And 3GB of VRAM for a APU is only possible with Asus!
So you can also play some newer Games or retro or something, or looking some good UA-cam stuff. I think for some people is this cheap board a good compromis to other expensive boards.
When you have not the money for an overkill pc, or don´t need a high performance gaming machine for your games. Or you want only an HTPC!
I still think this board is a good choice for the budget minded. Thanks for the feedback
Hi can i mix single 8gb ram channel and 4gb?(ddr4 same) With same frequency
Can two of 8gb single ram(ddr4) with same frequency but not same type of brand it will work on this mob?
Should be fine if the cas ratings are the same
Nice video. I have this motheborard, Ryzen 7 2700X, 16GB of ram and Radeon RX 580. If I replace the motherboard with good one what will be the plus what I can get? Please tell me what mother board will be ok.I use the computer for gaming. And second think...in the future I want to make streaming with games. What capture you recomand and if I instal that capture will afect my frame and ping rate on game.I look forward to your reply.Thank you
lets discuss this on the discord as you have asked a few questions
Thank you for the replay. Yesterday I ordered MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS AM4 DDR4 ATX Motherboard, PowerColor Radeon Red Devil RX 5700XT 8GB Graphics Card, Corsair TM30 Performance Thermal Paste and EVGA 750 GQ 80+ GOLD 750W Semi Modular EVGA ECO Mode Power Supply PSU. From my research the changes made by me are ok and will help me in the future. I had to change the power supply because the one I have is 550 watts and this video card requires a 700 watts source, thermal paste because I will have to I put the processor on the new motherboard. I haven't bought the capture card yet because I still don't know which is ok for me. I understand that it is good for the capture card to be in another computer.
Should i go for Ryzen 5 4500 & Asus Prime A320M-K OR I3 10105f & B460M Steel Legend/B560M Pro4?🤔
probably the AMD route
Thanks so much for the vid i will be getting a better one now
No problem 👍
I can confirm that this board works really good after almost 1 years as a simple PC connected to the TV. Ryzen 2200g chips, 3200 (yes, clocked at this speed) ans a 256go samsung 970 evo m.2 ssd.
In fact, I ended up using it quite often for basic web stuff, sat on the couch... with some drinks and nachos!
awesome! need some nachos or doritos now
Been using it for 2 months. And not working 😒 even technicians cant repair it
Brother I try with AMD athlon X4 970 not working is because of bios ? Can You help
@@gabiionut91stan14 Probably as theis processor is not on the cpu support list.
@@patricklebel1141 in suppport list show me is compatible I think is update bios not working . Same think say to me Sir Mike .Thanks you. Next week i will buy amd ryzen 2200 G
I have this board with a ryzen 3 3200g 16 ram 2666 mhz, and a rx 570 4 gb, powered by a 650w budged psu, works really well.
Runs most games some on high some on low, its my first build, and im satisfied
very nice!
You earned a subscriber just through the fact that you are very responsive. Love that! Wonder if this will work with a ryzen 5 3400g and an rx 580 8gb? Happy holidays!
Thanks for the sub! and yes it will work fine with those although you are wasting some of the APU in that configuration
Do you think this motherboard would be a good place holder for a pc running vr/rhythm games with a 2700x and a rx580?
2700x is probably pushing the limits a bit to be honest. A few more ££ and you can get the asrock b450 pro4 or steel legend which will be better or even the tomahawk max is low priced at the moment
@@mikesunboxing would it work with r3 2200g rx570 8gb
Kaneki Uchiha it would work fine
Yes
Just to add to this, i currently own this board with an R7 2700X and RX580 with 8GB ram and it runs every single game on max settings at 60fps+, super quiet too but ive got a a few fans and a large heatsink installed.
Hi love the video. Exactly the info I was looking for. I have 16g ram, R3, and a GeForce 1650 and games work really good.
Can u pls recommend me an upgrade of this motherboard. Will have to be a micro itx.
Ty
asrock b450 pro4-f is a good option
Just build a HTPC this week on this board with a 1200AF... Works great, no complaints....
Awesome 👏
Hi Mike thanks for the great video!
1 yes that is going to be fine
2 the bottleneck is there but extremely minimal, you won't notice it except in some benchmarks
3 changing CPU normally resets the bios so settings need to be reapplied, they are not stored in the CPU or APU
@@mikesunboxing thanks a lot mate! i really appreciate it ☺❤
Quick question. Can i add a gtx 1660 super in it? Because i want to upgrade my GPU and this is the motherboard my PC has.
Yes you can
I added a 2060 super rtx to it and it works greatt
I just won this on Ebay today. I'm only using it for a home/media/one game (Fallout 4) pc. So it will work for me.
You will be pleased with it I'm sure
Hello Mike, Im building a budget PC for gaming and I was wondering if you could give me an advice please. My setup on this MB would be GTX 1660 Super 6GB OC, AMD Ryzen 5 2600, Kingston HyperX 2x8GB 2666MHz DDR4 CL13 Predator, ADATA XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro SSD 512GB and Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD. For a case I will get NZXT H510. My questions would be - 1) What do you think about the synergy of this whole setup (any part possible bottleneck or overkill compared to the rest) ? 2) Is the stock CPU cooler enough in this specific PC case or should I consider water cooling like NZXT X62 for example ? Thank you in advance !
looks like a good setup and the stock cooler should be fine
This channel is underrated..i hope it will blow up mate. Respect👌
thanks that is very kind of you to say
This is gonna be my first pc only have a budget of $310 :( I'm running a ryzen 3 3200g with a 240gb ssd 8gb ddr4 3200mhz and a extra cooling fan is that ok for a $300 pc ?
Do u have a graphics card
Sounds good
Bmuzii 1 3200g has on board graphics
Motherboard?
U need dual chanel for vega integrated gpus it wont run good without dual chanel
I know this motherboard isn't ideal for my other parts but is it safe to pair this mobo with a ryzen 7 2700 and rtx2070
Yes! You loose the ability to direct OC the CPU but otherwise it is a great board with everything you need to build a rock solid system
Moustapha Diallo is it windows 10?
@@lordkuso1582 yes
Moustapha Diallo thanks
any b450m motherboard would do better
Bro, thanks for answering my questions, you are amazing, keep it up 👍
Thanks and thank you for watching :-)
This motherboard is perfect. I have it with an Ryzen 3 2600x 8gb ddr4 ram rx570 4gb and 600w psu. It works perfectly fine and it is amazing
It is a good board no doubt
@@mikesunboxing yea
Did u have to update the bios out of the box?
That is the setup I am basically looking at buying. Can you OC the CPU?
I have an athlon 200GE with decent cooler and 2 x 4GB ram at 2400mhz.This mobo has the ability to OC after a certain bios version(cpu and memory at 2667)?
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Ye i have a 200ge its trash so im upgrading the pc but keeping thw motherboard. Gpu is a ventus xs 1660ti oc and a ryzen 5 2600x or 2600
Lol did u get it prebuilt i got this exact pc prebuilt and I hate it so I wanna get a ryzen 5 3600 and gtx 1650 super and also more and faster 2x8gb 3200mhz ram
@@AJ-og4ru I got that pre built as well I'm gonna get a rx 570 soon
Hello. I was interested in buying this to go in my new PC I'm building. I was wondering if I can use an AMD Athlon 3000g on it. (Because it's going to be a budget build)
yes you can
Thanks forr the video. Very informative. I have had this board for over a year with a Ryzen 5 3400 CPU and it runs really well. Which GPU would you recommend for this board for gaming ?
Great to hear! i would maybe go with a 1660 super that would be a good match
@@mikesunboxing would you recommend a 1050 ti with it?
@@pakbetgaming969 i have a 1050 ti i with it and it works just fine
What do you think sir if i use this motherboad with r5 2600 16gb ram and 1050ti??
And it can support nvme m.2?
Thanks greetings from philippines.
Sounds good to me
will it work on ryzen gen 2 ( 2200g ) without bios update ?
Maybe depending on the seller but be cautious I it has a really old bios it wont
EX-A320M could be your choice. Same price with ryzen 2nd gen ready bios
Trash. A320 can't overclock it and you can't upgrade to Ryzen 3000 cpu's
One of those statements is true 😉
@@OlettaLianoI do have to say, that with a $45 USD Mobo, you probably aren't looking for an upgrade path (why buy a $45 board to support a $400+ cpu?) It does support the new 3400G CPU - sounds like an excellent solution for a Home Theatre PC (would have been more ideal with an optical out).
@@OlettaLianoGreat point on "one PC to rule them all!" :) I have 3 PC's that I manage at home. Gaming laptop that I take on the road when I have to travel. Desktop that is my hobby/gaming rig (not much of a gamer anymore, but I still love hardware) and a gaming tablet that I made into a HTPC. It works well with a wireless mouse and keyboard for watching stuff that you can't get on our Smart TV or Apple TV (we watch some out of region stuff). Each machine has its purpose. I am a geek.
Considering it can take a ryzen 5 3600 I think your wrong Oletta
Upgrade path is uncertain as they might change to am5 at any point but still a solid choice at the budget end of the market
Gonna buy this board, most likely next week, for an A8-9600 build I've wanted to do for a long time.
Just going to be a combined home-media server, DVD drive and light gaming console-emulator.
Just gonna connect it to the TV, plug in a joypad and a small wireless keyboard/touchpad combo.
Gonna get a hold of an old Lenovo SFF case, that's mATX compliant and a PSU of about 240W and I'll be golden.
Have spare SSD, HDD and RAM, so...
I even have a Radeon Pro WX 2100, that I bought for cheap 1½ year ago. xD
sounds like a great project! hope it goes well
Really a nice video very helpful since a lots of builds on market ranging from price $400-$600 has an a320m motherboard paired with ryzen 5 or 3
And as for me a novice from this would like to ask if I should stick to a320 motherboard for the meantime or extend the budget for b450(most likely a biostar brand and it has mostly a negative reviews) for a ryzen 5 3400g
Appreciate much and here is a like and a subscribe!!
for a 3400g there is actually quite a lot of extra horsepower you can get with a few bios tweaks so i would look at a b450 if possible
@@mikesunboxing thank you this is really helpful.... waiting for your mext content!
@@elainacelesteria42 Thank you!
Got this board with a ryzen 7 5700x and it’s smooth as butter with a 4060 ,will be upgrading though that’s just my sons starter set up for now while he gets used to using keyboard and mouse .
nice! glad you like it
What do you think about this.
I've been buying parts to build a gaming PC that allows me to play the best titles for the next, 3, 4 years. I don't care about 4k or 800 frames per second, I'm not a competitive gamer. As long as they run above 60fps, with great quality with a decent 1440p monitor, I'm happy. So, I decided to buy this A320 Mobo, it allowed me to buy the base for a gaming PC, all at once (it was a "it's now or never" descision) without geting evicted from my aparment and I believe I made a good investment:
A320M-K MOBO
Ryzen 3600
8GB 2936Mhz RAM Stick (I'll buy another 8GB stick later)
EVGA 600B 80+ PSU
2TB Hard Drive
240GB SSD Boot Drive
Now, I have it up and running on my dekstop with an old GTX 670, it's perfectly fine for good 2010 - 2016 titles at 1080p. But now all I have to do is finish saving for my RTX2070 and I'll have all the horsepower for good recent and upcming titles without having to worry about framerates anymore.
seems like a great combo to me. The graphics card is obviously holding you back at the moment but when you upgrade it will be a night and day experience
Just bought this new excited to find whats in it....mike what is the next model of asus prime A320M-K?
should be a520m-k soon i think
Nice video, Sir Mike, if I update a new bios that would fit for Ryzen 5 3500x, Do i really need to update it using ryzen 2000 series cpu or the 3500x is just enough for updating the bios? Im new and still learning.
This is maybe easier to fix or at least advise if we can ask more questions and get direct answers, so feel free to join our Discord chat and we can go over it in more detail discord.gg/gaeeDPw
You're so helpful with replying to comments. Too bad I didn't found your channel earlier as I need to pick up my new PC tomorrow but being a computer dummy I don't know if what I've ordered is any good. 😟
Well if you have any questions you can ask them in our live stream or join our discord chat server
@@mikesunboxing Thank you! I'll be sure to join. If you have time, please take a look at these specs:
Acer Aspire A315-54-38WD
i3-8145U Dual Core 2.1GHz (Burst do 3.9Ghz) cash 4MB 2 Core. RAM 12GB DDR4 SSD 256GB. Intel UHD Graphics 620.
VS
AM4 AMD A320M-K
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 4 cores 3.6GHz (3.9GHz) Box
Memory: DIMM DDR4 8GB 2.133MHz
HDD: WD 320GB WD3200AUDX SATA3 7200 32MB. Radeon™ Vega 11
Laptop is $440 and the PC is $270 but with a 27" monitor it'll be about the same price. I just want to do some light editing/colouring in Gimp or Photoshop. Which one would you choose?
@@gacomics5951 the pc without question. the extra monitor real estate will be great for editing and the PC can easily be upgraded when funds allow.
Oh and of course AMD FTW :-)
@@mikesunboxing Great! I did go for a PC yesterday and got myself a 27 curved Philips monitor. Yea much better then a 15" laptop xD Thank you!
Just checked this vid out as I was looking at one of these with an R3 3200g and 8gb of ram to replace a 10 year old system used for photoshop, desktop publishing, browsing etc... I went for it after seeing this vid, I don't need any bells or whistles, so cheers for the pointers mate...
no problem, hope you enjoy it
Thanks for the great overview. I saw a prebuilt with this motherboard and wanted to do some research on it. Wow its a cheap board and I can see some PC websites still using this motherboard a lot in late 2022 :(
The PC I was looking at has a 3200G in it, probably perfect for this board, but I was thinking of doing the bios update to allow it to have a 5000 series CPU and putting in a 5500 with a GTX 1070 for a 1080p gaming PC. Do you think the motherboard could handle a 5500 ?
Yes easily
Without doing a single bit of research I snapped up one of these boards today. The price was the key - I found it as a return at Amazon for less than $4. At that price how could I possibly go wrong? It obviously won’t replace my gaming rig but depending on the CPU it might make a fine upgrade for my i7 3770-based media center or a replacement computer for mom.
Wow! $4 that's an amazing price!
Mike thanks for the review. i also watched your MSI b450 gaming plus max review. Im currently using a 2700 on a a320m gigabyte board. And my vrm temps are going 60 degrees max is 70 on some instances. Should i upgrade to MSI gaming plus? Or my vrm temps are just fine?
vrms can get to 100c before they are in the danger zone so i wouldn't be too concerned
@@mikesunboxing thank you Mike! Btw should i replace my a320 with msi gaming plus max? Or im fine with this?
So I got this in a pre-built and I'm very happy with it, but what do you think is the farthest I can go with this board in terms of CPU and GPU power? (For future upgrades)
a ryzen 5 3700 is about where i would see the sweet spot, gpu wise anything at all
@@mikesunboxing Wow, that's actually pretty amazing, thanks for the reply!
Hello Dear Sir, after watching your review ,i was so convinced that i chose the Asus A320 over the Gigabyte,MSI,AsRock and Galax a320 mobos.Thankyou for the wonderful and honest review Sir.
Great 👍
I have a 5700xt and ryzen 5 3rd gen/32gigs of ram.
Zero issues so far
Hey bud I have a build on the way and used this board. Not an expert as far as PCs go but what is the max ram speed this can handle out of the box? I was told that if I wanted to use 3200mhz ram I had to overclock it to support it. Is this true? If so I would really appreciate if you could tell me the steps to doing so. Thanks for any feedback!
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CHEAP and really DURABLE!
My PC was hit by a lightning surge and my Monitor's power supply got fried but my System with this motherboard is still working.
That 5X Protection in the box is legit!
that is great
"If you're building a very low end PC"
my RTX 3060 paired with this board:
😂
why spend that money on a PCIe gen 4 GPU with all the other features that it has and then dump it in a A320? that is a real shame
hey i ordered this mobo with a ryzen 5 1600. will i be able to use the cpu out of the box or will i have to update bios? good video btw
Will work straight away
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wait i’m sorry I made a mistake, I got the ASRock a320, will it still work or should i get a b450??
I got this board since I didn't have much money for build my pc at first. I built it with Ryzen 5 3400G with 16GB (2x8GB) 2666mhz and it worked perfectly. I used the APU for play and graphic design too and it was ok, but if you plan to do that you need at least 16GB of ram since the APU takes a lot for itself. Now I added a EVGA GTX 1650 Super and I can play most of the games at Ultra in 1080p. I know it's a cheap pc but for now it does the work I need. I'm waiting and saving for a major upgrade next year. Totally recommend this board if you don't have much money for start your proyect!
thanks for the feedback
Hehehe thank you because I'm also buying the same you have
A great no-frills motherboard that's very stable. Current setup is a Ryzen 5 1500X CPU, 16GB RAM (2x 8GB Crucial CT8G4DFS824A @2400MHz), 500GB SSD, 1TB HDD & GTX1050Ti on Win 10. The CPU idles @ 3600MHz, 43-45 Celsius (with a fan speed of 800-900 RPM) and CPU utilisation of 2-3 % (I've yet to push it over 50% with any task - even gaming). Comes with the ASUS "AI Suite" which can automatically keep all of the drivers up to date and has an inbuilt PC Cleaner that removes Windows temporary / junk files - so you only need any other apps, other than antivirus software.
Nice setup hope you get many years out of it
I have this board with the ryzen 5 3600, rx 590, 24gb ram and m2 ssd. It works perfectly ! Easy and cheap ultra gaming. Don't need any more than this board :)
nice setup
@@mikesunboxing Dos work withe r5 3400g ??
Hey, I hope you don't mind the question, but I do own this board and just bought a 2600x along with 16 GB of 2666 ram. My question is will this board allow my cpu to operate to its fullest stock potential minus over clocking? or will there be limitations. Thanks!
Yes it will be fine in that board just you can’t use pbo or overclocking
@@mikesunboxing Thank you.
nice video.
which is better between asrock a320 hdv 4.0 or asus a320m-k mobo.pls suggest.i want to build a budget system with ryzen 3 3200g.
nothing in it really they are pretty much the same
Do you think ryzen 5 2600 will be fine with this board? Paired witha gtx 1660 super. Either buy a new b450m board and downgrade gpu to something like a rx 5500 xt 8gb or just keep the motherboard and buy gtx 1660 super/rx 5600 xt? Im upgrading from a320m-k and athlon 200ge vega 3
Or buy i5 10400f + b460m + gtx 1650?
the 2600 and 1660 super will work fine on here but you can't OC the processor, upgrading the board and downgrading the CPU or GPU probably isn't a good trade off
I have this motherboard right now and run it with a Ryzen 5 2600,16gb 3200 and Rx5700xt and my question would be whether a better motherboard would provide more power and whether the 3600 would be able to run on this Motherboard. Or even the new 5000 series
3600 would run just fine on there the 5000 won't
Thank you for the unboxing.. a lot of great advice.. for an office use,
would you recommand a 250wtt power, or a 500wtt? I would add those component
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
Deepcool Beta 10-PWM
Radeon Vega 8 OnChip
16 GB DDR4-RAM Dual Channel (2x8GB) 2666 Mhz Crucial
512 GB M.2 SATA SSD Kingston
24x Multiformat DVD-Brenner
USB WLan
2TO HDD
would upgrading to the 3400G would make a great difference (there is an extra 65 euro)
Thank you very much
500w watt would be better or did you mean 450w? depending on the amount of apps you are using or likely chrome tabs the 3400g might make more sense?
@@mikesunboxing thank you for the answer, I mean 250, but I have finally chosen a ATX Seasonic S12II-430B 430W that should fit better.. I will stay with 3200G to stay cost effective, thank you again
Good psu and hope all goes well
Hello Mike, Im building a budget gaming build. Ive paired this with the Ryzen 7 3700x and a Geforce GTX 960. Why do you not recommend going over a Ryzen 2700x? Asus website says its compatible so even with a bios update what would be the bottleneck?
it just might not boost as high as you would like and for maybe not so long
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Thank you for the nice explanation. Greetings from Algeria
thanks! lovely country
i am using it with Ryzen 2200g, 16gb DDR4 3000mhz, 512GB NVME, 2TB SSD, 2TB HDD, GTX 1060 6GB. mainly for Video Rendering, some games and word processing. built in sound quality pretty basic, not great. but it's run everything smoothly.
Good to hear pun intended 😍
I was wondering does it support r7 3800x
what Ram you use in this mashine . I ask ,because compatibility Ram /Mb?
so this motherboard supports gtx 1060 6gb?
I have that motherboard and amd athlon 200ge 16gb ram ssd and hdd and i plan on getting a new radeon rx 550 or 570 gpu would you recommend? I have budget pc and with integrated 2gb vega 3 gpu it runs csgo at 130 never drops under 100 fps. Processor is really good since its integrated and i would like your opinion on new gpu.
either is a good choice, it will depend on what is available and pricing
@@mikesunboxing thanks
i used this mb and work fine with ryzen 3500x with gtx 750ti :), gaming and video editing was no problem at all
Thanks for the feedback - have a great weekend!
is it worth it buying a b450 just to upgrade my cpu to ryzen 5 2600? or will it be fine for gaming and not VRM overheating? I wont be upgrading to ryzen 5000
2600 will be totally fine
Hi sir. I am wondering if 8Gb ram with 3200mhz speed compatible with this motherboard? Thanks and nice video by the way, very informative.
It should but it will mostly be down to whatever cpu you are using
Such a nice review. I did use the same board for my dad's office pc and paired it with a ryzen 3 2200g and 8gb ram in dual channel and a 240gb m.2 ssd. The board has been very great considering the price I got it for
yes they are brilliant value for money
did you need to update the bios for the 2200g?
@@wunkah no in fact it was updated out of the box
Hello Im planning to buy this motherboard and with a AMD Ryzen 7 2700 in it, used for 250$.It comes also with a Power Box case with that Price.I plan to add an M.2 Sasmung Evo 500 and some Psu,maybe from asus.But I'm a little bit lost about what Ram should i buy and what Gpu.Could you maybe guide me here and also I would like to hear your opinion about this setup and the price, if it's reasonable.
not sure about the value there and it will depend on the country and dollar exchange rate, here in the UK the board is often seen for less than £50 and the cpu for £160 brand new so i would weigh up the options , maybe join our discord to discuss as there are many variables
I am thinking of getting this motherboard and pairing it with a placeholder CPU (AMD a 12 9800) and in the future upgrading to a Ryzen 5 1600
I have read a few news articles about the a320 motherboards getting support for 5th gen Ryzen CPUs.
Should I get an a320 motherboard with 4 ram slots or should I save up more for a b450 motherboard?
personally i would look for a b450 board but it will be a little more expensive
an Athlon 3000g and an a320 motherboard is all I can afford where I live. Is there a B450 motherboard at this range of price so I can at least overclock the CPU?
If not do you think I should go with an Athlon 200ge instead since it doesn't offer overclocking?
btw, how about a320 motherboards from other brands like ASrock and Biostar? have you got your hands on those as well? if yes which one seems to have a better build quality?
thanks
they all have similar build quality at the entry level just he features differ. hard to say what other options to recommend it depends on your region and availablity
My specs atm. Asus Prime A320m-k, 2x8GB of 3000mhz Ram, 550psu, Ryzen 3 3200g. I want to upgrade My CPU and install a CPU. What’s the best possible upgrades without changing anything other than CPU? I want to get a Ryzen 7 2700x but that’s not realistic I don’t think? So I was looking at getting a Ryzen 5 3600? And getting the best possible GPU like a RX 590? But think the RX 580 OC will be the safer option? Any help/suggestions would really be appreciated☺️
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Since i saw you replying to evetyone which is amazing thanks! help me what to choose between 16ram with A320M or 8ram with b450M thanks !
depends a lot on the other components really, but if you what an in depth discussion head over to our discord and we can work out the best solution for you and your money
@@mikesunboxing Ryzen 5 3400g
Vega 11
240 ssd
For this motherboard do you think I could
add a GeForce gtx 1660 overclocked edition to it?
Yh
yes no problem
thanks for answering Hinda
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Great video, sir. You really explained a lot about this MB and it's features (or lack of haha). I've had this MB for a while now with a:
-Corsair LED Vengeance 3000Mhz 1x8Gb
-Ryzen 3 1200
-Gtx 1050Ti
-430W EVGA 80+ White
I upgraded some of my parts and currently have:
-Corsair LED Vengeance 3000Mhz 1x8Gb
-Corsair Vengeance 3000Mhz 1x8Gb
-Ryzen 5 2600
-Gtx 1070
-Same PSU
Well... I'm kind of a newbie and didn't know that two different sticks of RAM would cause some unstability issues on my system and had to buy a pack of 2x8Gb to get 16Gb ram on dual channel, they're currently both running at 2133Mhz (according to BIOS). Currently I'm thinking about selling my RAM sticks and buying a pack of two sticks.. but I'm afraid of commiting another mistake and having an unstable system (My computer kinda microstutters every once in a while and it's annoying af). Appart from changing the RAM, are my components too much for my motherboard to handle?, should I also upgrade my PSU?, I'd like your opinion on this since I'm really kinda lost and haven't gotten real advice anywhere else :) Thank you in advance
I think you should definitely look at changing that PSU! It isn't a bad PSU but under powered for that setup for sure.
@@mikesunboxing thank you!!!
I order a brand new A320 M-K but it don't power on at all, no fan spin. Could that be unsupported hardware if I'm not getting anything. If no fan spin should I put the speaker in and see if I get a code or would this board be dead on arrival?
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Going to get a MB for casual gaming and not into overclocking. Will be using Ryzen 2200g. Which one will you choose Asus A320m-k or Asrock B450m pro 4?
pro4 easily but it is a lot more expensive
Can I use a ryzen 5 3600,16gb of ram, rtx 2060, 250gb ssd, 500g hdd? With out updating my bios
if it is a new board it should be fine but a b450 or b550 would be a better choice
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Hey Mike, i dont know if you are going to see this but i'll try. I have ordered asus exa320m gaming mobo. I have very limited budget and now i think that if it will be a more wise move to buy b450m k. I will use ryzen 5 3400g w/ 16gb (2x8) dual team ddr4 3200 ram. Maybe 1 or 2 year later i will upgrade cpu w/ ryzen 5 3600. I want to know your opinion
Tough one as the 3400g will overclock quite well on the b450 but the 3600 maybe won’t go much over the PBO on either board so tough choice. I would probably go b450 I think
@@mikesunboxing I have decided to sent ex a320m gaming mobo back and order gigabyte b450m s2h.I believe it is a wise move 😄
Sir, i really casual person and didn't know anything about overclock but i do a lot heavy work with video and motion graphic such as premiere pro, davinci resolve, after effect etc
Consider moving to ryzen r5 2500 with older gpu gtx970ti and 16g of RAM..do you think this motherboard can handle my "hardcore" work?
sounds fine. anything with 8 cores or more starts to challenge this board under loads
Hi, what do you think of using it with a ryzen 3900x just as a temporary solution, would it handle it ? even for some gaming and some video editing?...of course not even trying OC or stuff like that, just to be able to use my PC mainly with Corel, Illustrator till I find the board I want to really have. Thanxs in advance
should be okay but under some loads it may not boost to the higher clock speeds and if it does it won't stay there long
Would you recommend this over the Gigabyte A320M-S2H board? Also what are the pros and cons of each? I want to know someone's opinion rather than just the board's specs. Thanks in advance!
I’ve not had a good look at the s2h board to be totally honest so it would be unfair to comment
True. But would you recommend the asus board with a r5 2600 and rx 570? Only as a starter board tho. Is it reliable?
@@bsit-1cservidadmarktimothy276 Yes the board is running well and is a good workhorse board
Hello Mike. What do you think what is better option with this MB R7 2700x or R5 2600. If I use same gpu, what cpu will give me best value. I will use it for some casual gaming in 1080p, and some web browsing and yt and movie watching. I dont intend to do OC.
It would depend on the difference in price between the two Seaview is the rise in five 2600 should be retailing round by 100 UK pounds And we are seven 2700 X is approximately 150 at the moment with Black Friday deals et cetera so if you got the extra money I would say go with the 2700 the extra course will be helpful but if you wanna put the money into something else on your break like more RAM or something then that might be the better way to go specially for use a lot of the chrome tabs
@@mikesunboxing What about Asus Prime B450M-K with R7 2700x. Do You have video about this mb?
Hey Mike I know this is off topic but I can't find any help I have an asus tuf b450m-plus gaming motherboard and I want to upgrade from a ryzen 3 2200g to a ryzen 5 3600 but do you know if I would be able to have a ryzen 5 3600 on my current motherboard and my other question is would a 550 watt psu be good enough all that aside great video 👍
Thanks for watching and liking the video hopefully it was useful for you to answer your question I would say the power supply should be enough but that would depend on what are the components you're planning to use such as graphics card extra fans hard drives etc and it would seem that with the latest BIOS ryzen 5 3600 is supported although you will need to do the BIOS update before you install the chip.
There are numerous updates planned very shortly with a new micro card update so be on the lookout for that and good luck with your upgrade let me know how it goes