I know it's already too late to ask, but is the Asus strix B850-F any upgrade from an MSI B650-P?
I know it's already too late to ask, but is the Asus strix B850-F any upgrade from an MSI B650-P?
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Yeah
Read the specs and then you tell us…
Really the only difference from a regular consumer standpoint is AMD requires B850 to have at least 1 M.2 slot with PCIe 5.0 support. B650 CAN have it, but I don’t know if that specific MSI board does. Also, while it’s not required, most B850 boards have PCIe 5.0 for the graphics card slot, while B650 doesn’t. The only cards right now that it really makes any difference for is the 5080 and 5090, and it’s negligible, so it doesn’t matter that much currently.
Upgrade how? There is no point in upgrading your motherboard unless the one you have lacks something that you need. Otherwise you are just wasting money because you most likely won’t seem any tangible difference in performance, assuming your current board doesn’t have issues.
Besides some b650 non e (like tomahawk) do even support pcie 5 despite not being stated