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Biostar B650M Motherboard Review – All The Basic AM5 Features In A Sub-$100 Design

Hassan Mujtaba

Test Setup

For testing, I used the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and a range of B650 series motherboards for the performance evaluation.

AMD AM5 Motherboards Test Setup:

ProcessorsAMD Ryzen 9 7950X
Motherboard (BIOS)Biostar B650MT (B65CQ426.BSS)
ASRock B650E Taichi LITE (1.28)
ASRock X670E Taichi (1.09)
X670E AORUS Xtreme (F6a)
X670E AORUS Master (F8a)
ASUS X670E ROG HERO (0705)
MSI MAG B650M Mortar WIFI (7D76vA1)
ASRock B650E Taichi (1.11)
ASRock B650E PG ITX (1.11)
B650 AORUS Elite AX (F3b)
Power SupplyASUS ROG THOR 1200W
Solid State DriveSamsung SSD 980 PRO M.2 (1 TB)
MemoryG.SKILL Trident Z5 32 GB (2 x 16GB) CL36 6000 Mbps (DDR5 Platforms)
Video CardsMSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X
Cooling SolutionsCorsair H115i (With LGA 1700 Mounting Kit)
OSWindows 11 64-bit
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Our test rig includes the Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB SSD that boots up our main OS while a 2 TB Seagate HDD is used for the storage of games and applications. In addition to these, we are running an MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X graphics card and an ASUS ROG Thor 1200W power supply. For this specific review, we used G.Skill's latest Trident Z5 NEO DDR5-6000 memory kit running at CL30 timings. We also got an AM5 mounting kit for the Corsair H115i to use as a cooling solution for our test setup.

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About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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