The official prices for MSI’s AMD B650 motherboards have seemingly leaked online, revealing what budget-oriented enthusiasts might be paying to get into AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 Series and AM5 platform. MSI’s cheapest B650 motherboard is the PRO B650M-A WIFI, which costs $189, while the most expensive is the MPG B650 CARBON WIFI at $329. The MPG B650 CARBON WIFI and MPG B650 EDGE WIFI feature a PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 slot, as noted in MSI’s press release from yesterday.
- MSI MPG B650 Carbon WIFI – $329.99 US
- MSI MPG B650 EDGE WIFI – $289.99 US
- MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI – $239.00 US
- MSI MPG B650I EDGE WIFI – $239.99 US
- MSI MAG B650M Mortar WIFI – $219.99 US
- MSI PRO B650-P WIFI – $209.99 US
- MSI PRO B650M-A WIFI – $189.99 US
Is this the real or final price?🧐🧐🧐#MSI_B650 pic.twitter.com/JIAluhA9fC
— chi11eddog (@g01d3nm4ng0) October 4, 2022
These prices are expectedly better than what MSI is charging for its higher-ended X670/X670E motherboards. Those would include the MEG X670E GODLIKE and MEG X670E ACE, which cost $1,299.99 and $699.99, respectively, according to Newegg’s listings. One of MSI’s cheapest X670 motherboards appears to be the PRO X670-P WIFI, which can be found for $289.99.
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Join Discussion →How much does a "budget" computer cost to build nowadays anyway?
With or without keyboard, mouse, and monitor. That seems to be what everyone forgets to price in builds lately.
Too true.
Seems like it wasn't that long ago that you could build a decent -- not top tier mind you, but decent, non-chinese knockoff actual name brand stuff -- rig for around $500-600. Without all that peripheral stuff. But that got you an entry level discrete card, a CPU that wouldn't really bottleneck you, a PSU that wasn't a ticking time bomb, a case that wasn't made of jagged razor blades or cardboard, and enough RAM to play any game you wanted to -- and it had decent upgrade paths to grow from: just pop in a better CPU or GPU and you could go from zero to hero.
Today? Would $1K even get you there? Could you even build something with a discrete card in that range?
Call me when they are a hundy
They arent making B650E boards. So all of their lower end B560 boards dont even have a PCIE 5.0 m.2 Slot. Its really a let down. Other brands at least have a 5.0 m.2 slot.