A520 VS B550

[IHFyrz2812]

Why is people dont recomended A520,am i missing something?

 

i want to build a budget build and i see A520 is a great price but people say that A520 is a bad motherboard,what is the bad thing about this motherboard?

 

[sorry bad english]

[dizmo]

It's not bad, it just doesn't have nearly as many features and lacks overclocking.

[Fasauceome]

Some people think it's as bad as A320. But, most A520 motherboards have a VRM heat sink so they can actually maintain higher core count CPUs.

 

The only feature that a B550 has over an A520 is CPU overclocking. If you don't plan on overclocking your CPU, an A520 motherboard would be fine.

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Some people think it's as bad as A320. But, most A520 motherboards have a VRM heat sink so they can actually maintain higher core count CPUs.

 

The only feature that a B550 has over an A520 is CPU overclocking. If you don't plan on overclocking your CPU, an A520 motherboard would be fine.

Do keep in mind that it's really up to the board. Still enough bad a520 AND b550 boards out there sadly. (with bad I mean a 6core is their hard limit for stability).

[thepoorgamer]

Because B450 boards cost about the same as a520s and are unlocked and sometimes have better power delivery. 

[mariushm]

A520 boards have less overclocking support, they're limited to 2 memory slots, and they have fewer USB slots and - if my memory is correct - only 6 pci-e lanes offered by chipset (so you tend to not have a 2nd m.2 connector, or the second m.2 connector is only sata or maximum pci-e 3.0 x2)

 

If you don't care about these minuses, then they're OK boards.

[Rhebucks]

if you want m.2 bluetooth card you won't have a m.2/pcie ssd

[Fasauceome]

1 hour ago, Rhebucks said:

if you want m.2 bluetooth card you won't have a m.2 ssd

m.2 bluetooth and M.2 storage is not the same. Adding bluetooth via PCIe also would not impede the M.2 storage because ryzen has 4 dedicated lanes for NVMe

[mariushm]

9 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

m.2 bluetooth and M.2 storage is not the same. Adding bluetooth via PCIe also would not impede the M.2 storage because ryzen has 4 dedicated lanes for NVMe

And one can get a m.2 to pci-e adapter card or m.2 to usb adapter card if the bluetooth is pci-e / usb based .... so it can run in a pci-e x1 slot.