This is great news for the latest AMD platform, which was having a little trouble getting off the ground.
Only a few days ago, we mentioned the possibility of a new Ryzen 7000 compatible chipset from AMD. A possibility for which we used (and abused?) the conditional because the only proof of such a chipset came from an ASUS BIOS dated October 14th. We think that since the fall of 2022, water has flowed under the bridge and that AMD may have moved on. On the contrary, since this leak, things have been rushing. The site Videocardz has learned of a model based on this future A620 chipset from ASRock and an availability date has even emerged: " during April ".
Still thanks to Videocardz, we now know a little more. Indeed, the said ASRock motherboard is called ASRock A620M-HDV/M.2. It is a micro-ATX model and it will logically be the first price of the AM5 offer from the Taiwanese company. It is designed around socket LGA1718 of course and has only two slots for DDR5. Attention, economy obliges, the PCI Express Gen 5 is not on the menu. In fact, the PCIe x16 slot dedicated to the graphics card only works in PCIe Gen 4 and the same goes for the two M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs. A look at the motherboard photo highlights its stripped-down look.
We don't have any details on the price of this board yet, but retailers around the world have already listed another model, this time from MSI. We don't know much about this MSI PRO A620M-E, except that it is also in micro-ATX format. Resellers Edis Computers (Slovakia) and BuyIT (Poland) quote a price of 87.4 euros and 437.36 zlotys (93.25 euros) respectively: this is indeed a low-priced AM5 motherboard, well below the price of the B650 models. Finally, a South Korean store(DCInside) announces that the MSI board will be released next week.
