Ryzen 3 2200G Motherboard VRM

[DemISser]

Hello everyone, i am thinking of buying the components needed for a Ryzen 3 2200G based system. But i'm concerned about the VRM's of the motherboard im buying with the Ryzen 3 2200g, i won't be doing any overclocking and i was wondering if this motherboard https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/A320M-PRO-E.html could do the trick without any issues, i would appreciate it greatly if you guys would have any thoughts on this. Thanks in advance

[mariushm]

The 2200g consumes around 40-50 watts, so even the cheapest 3 phase VRM would handle it. So literally ANY motherboard you could possibly buy would handle the 2200g just fine.

However, you should not buy a motherboard that's based on the A320 because it has terrible value - it blocks overclocking, it restricts maximum DDR4 frequencies, it has only 2 slots for memory, it has limited SATA and USB ports and it does not have support for Ryzen 3xxx series processors.

 

Motherboards with B450 chipset are often just a few dollars more expensive but most support even the latest processors released by AMD these days.

Also, keep in mind that using dual channel (TWO memory sticks) is A MUST and Ryzen processors love high frequency memory... try as hard as possible to get memory sticks running at least 3000 Mhz, ideally 3200 Mhz.

 

[Slottr]

Don't buy an A320 board, they're all trash. If you're looking for a cheaper board grab a Pro4 from asrock

[Jurrunio]

Expect it to run hot every time the CPU gets heavily loaded. There's not even a bad heatsink, it just doesn't have one. There's very little surface area when all you get are the mosfets package for heat dissipation.

[TheBean]

buy atleast b-series

anything... literally anything in b-series or above

[BigRom]

Avoid A320 chipset like the plague unless you're just building office PCs with Athlons.

 

Get a B450 chipset board.