AMD AM5 Mini-ITX Motherboard Roundup for Ryzen 7000/8000/9000

[Steve]

A roundup of all the AMD AM5 Mini-ITX motherboards we could get our hands on, from the likes of Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, and MSI. Compared and benchmarked.

Read the full article here.

AMD AM5 Mini-ITX Motherboard Roundup for Ryzen 7000/8000/9000

 

[WizTekNet]

Thanks for the article! ASRock in a 3d printed case here I come... Or even the gigabyte for a smaller CPU.

 

[godrilla]

I found a B650e Strix I itx board on sale for $249 for the next 5 hours on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ROG-B65...963021948-B0BP9LJBP8-&hvexpln=73&gad_source=1

FYI

 

[Atmajaya2020]

Thanks.. its a great article..
its nice to see many budget option of AM4 motherboards in itx form..
an a620 itx from asrock is good.. especially for my limited budget diy pc..

 

[Mjsun]

Thanks for the roundup! I secretly know all I need is mITX and keep planning a more compact build. What surprises me is that the mITX boards do not seem to cost much less than larger boards. I guess PCB and connector costs are insignificant in comparison to chipset and VRM components which dominate the BOM.

 

[phxrider]

Who the heck is going to run a 170w 7950x in a small form factor mini-ITX system? This tells me very little about how these boards would work with something someone would actually run in real life, like a 65w part or 7800x3d (which pulls nowhere near the 120w it's rated at, under any circumstances).

 

[phinn888]

Great review thanks. Going to do ITX for my next build (9700X or 9800X3D) will use this as a go by even though there should be new chipsets out by then.

 

[VengefulAncient]

Please add and test the Asus ROG Strix B650E-I - the filters on Asus website are messed up and it doesn't show when you filter for Mini-ITX AM5 boards, but it exists. Way nicer board layout than the Strix X670E-I (or especially Gigabyte B650I Aorus Ultra - whoever came up with its front panel audio routing is a lunatic), and no annoying daughterboards or add-on devices, but I wonder how well its 70A power holds up.

 

[phxrider]

Another vote for "I can't believe you left out the Asus B650E-I". It has the right amount of more than enough VRM for any AM5 processor, PCIe 5.0 on the x16 and M.2 slots, excellent audio section (ALC4080 and Savitech amp, and lit up color coded audio jacks), good USB including 20Gbit Gen 2 2x2 USB-C slots and 10Gbit/sec USB-A, no goofy daughterboards or external parts, it's solidly built, and doesn't cost $450 like their X670E board. I'm super impressed with mine, it's the perfect ITX board and only a little on the expensive side. Stable as an anvil too.

 

[BlackSwan]

Shame that the backplate shot of the Auros is missed. For me, as I run all my audio externally via spdif, the only option it seems is the asrock B650E (which is a decent board thankfully). I'd have to go check the Gigabyte page for the Auros to see if it has optical out.