Msi b350m gaming pro
Although most manufacturers have a primary focus on X470 chipset motherboards, AMD has made it clear that the B350 chipset will be sticking around for a long time. The MSI B350M Gaming Pro aims khổng lồ offer gamers a low-cost option on the smaller mATX khung factor, without all the glitz & glamour of RGB LEDs và over zealouspower delivery configurations.
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The MSI B350M Gaming Pro Motherboard Overview
The MSI B350M Gaming Pro targets the more budget conscientious game thủ looking to use the B350 chipset, not just for an entry-level price, but also with a mATX size factor. While the appeal of the mATX size factor offers a smaller alternative khổng lồ the regular ATX sized boards, the khung factor usually allows for up lớn two graphics cards lớn be installed on the more premium boards; the MSI B350M Gaming Pro omits a secondary full-length PCIe x16 slot for a less bandwidth hungry & small PCIe x1 slot. Given the price point of around $80 at Newegg, the B350M Gaming Pro sits as not only one of the cheapest AM4 socketed mATX motherboards on the market, but as one of the cheapest AM4 offerings completely.
With its low price, MSI has gone with a relatively basic layout across the majority of the PCB, which is inline with it being a budget board with a ‘less is more’ mantra; this is especially attributed lớn this particular model primarily due lớn the price. The heatsinks feature a stylish và futuristic looking pattern with a red & black design, with silver accents around the edging. Another important aestheticfeature is the all-black PCB with a red pattern predominantly located around the socket; this pattern largely resembles circuit traces & tracks.
When motherboards get labeled up as gaming, this can usually signify multiple things such as the màu sắc scheme, usually red or with red accented heatsinks, as well as featuring high-end features such as uprated audio codecs và networking capabilities. This can also includes software marketed to give an advantage during gaming. In order to lớn keep down costs, the B350M Pro Gaming makes use of the Realtek ALC887 audio codec which is commonly featured on boards in this price range. The codec is complimented by a quadruplet of Nippon Chemicon audio capacitors as well as featuring a degree of PCB separation. The networking is driven by a Realtek RTL8111H which consists of a single Ethernet port located on the rear panel.
The storage options consist of four SATA 6GBs ports controlled by the AMD B350 chipset with RAID 0, 1 và 10 arrays being supported. Also included is a single M.2 slot located directly below the single full-length PCIe 3.0 x16 slot which does itself feature the MSI Steel Armor slot protection. The M.2 slot supports PCIe 3.0 x4 capable drives, as well as SATA; a maximum of M.2 2280 (22 x 80 mm) are officially supported.
The board has a single DVI-D port, an HDMI 1.4 port & a đồ họa port giving users the facility lớn use older monitors. The rest of the rear panel houses the boards USB capabilities with a total of six. These are split into two USB 2.0 and four Type-A USB 3.0 ports; due lớn the budget nature of this board, there are no Type-C or USB 3.1 Gen2 ports present. The rest of the rear panel consists of a single PS2 keyboard/mouse full bộ port, a single LAN port and three 3.5mm audio jacks for the onboard audio.
Just lượt thích with mITX motherboards, the B350 Pro Gaming has two RAM slots with dual channel DDR4 support, with a maximum capacity of up khổng lồ 32GB installed. While X470 does have improved memory compatibility with faster modules over the first generation AM4 motherboards such as this one, the B350M Pro Gaming does offer support for DDR4-3200 (OC) which is good for a board at the entry màn chơi price point.
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The B350M Pro Gaming has a modest power nguồn delivery setup consisting of a 3+2 phase configuration with a Richtek RT8894A PWM controller leading the charge of the components. The VRM cooling comes via a single heatsink which is rather unassuming for users wanting to vì chưng run higher levels of voltage for overclocking on the AMD Ryzen processors such as the Ryzen 7 1700 ($220) used in our demo bed, or the newer second-generation Ryzen 7 2700 $299 which with an updated BIOS, does tư vấn the newer chips.
With the performance, the results given in comparison to other boards on demo were lớn be expected, with the weakest showing coming from the audio testing; a case of a Realtek ALC887 versus the ALC892/1220 offerings on the other boards being a stretch too far to lớn compete with. The strongest aspect of performance on the B350M Gaming Pro came in our 3d point movement calculations test, 3DPM, with further strong showings in our Handbrake encoding tests. The board also displays good figures in nguồn consumption for both idle, & our long idle tests, only with this coming undone at full load to produce one of the highest results seen on an AM4 motherboard.
It's clear that the primary use for this board comes through budget gamers looking khổng lồ shave off unnessacary features and overzealous packages lớn drive the overall price down. Where the Realtek ALC887 và Realtek RTL8111H controllers are more than ample for anyone looking to bởi vì general computing related tasks and gaming, they don't exude the màn chơi of premium other boards ingest into their lower tier offerings. The mATX khung factor segment is rather crowded on the B350, B450,X370, & X470 chipsets.
Ryzen 7 1700 Overclocking
Whilst the stripped-down versions of the cheaper chipsets on hãng sản xuất intel motherboards such as B360 features a lockdown on overclocking, AMDs B350 is fully unlocked to tư vấn overclocking on the Ryzen range of processors. Focusing on the MSI B350M Pro Gaming motherboard, it does have a rather unadorned nguồn delivery consisting of a 3+2 phase setup, which in turn wouldn’t make this as suitable for higher voltages than perhaps other models of a more premium nature than this. The MSI Click BIOS 5 resembles most other MSI BIOS versions of recent times and although the B350M Pro Gaming sits at the lower kết thúc of the market in terms of price, all the relevant and core settings are available to bởi some overclocking. The BIOS itself is easy to lớn navigate around, with a simple press of F7 allowing for switching between the basic & advanced BIOS screens. The OC section has all the core settings for changing CPU core frequency, various voltage settings and memory too, including DRAM latency timings, as well as the ability khổng lồ enable compatible memory’s XMP profiles. The CPU vi xử lý core Voltage within the BIOS is hard locked to lớn a maximum of 1.4 V; I am assuming this is to not overload the nguồn delivery và at the end of the day, 1.4 V is more than enough for most overclocks without going overboard which will result in considerably higher nguồn consumption và thermals. Users looking khổng lồ go past 1.4 V on this board will have khổng lồ resort to lớn the AMD Ryzen Master Overclocking Utility which will allow for a maximum of 1.55 V, but this is not recommended at all.
The best Ryzen 7 processors on ambient cooling can hit around 4.2 GHz while our sample can hit around 4.0 to lớn 4.1 GHz depending on the unique of the board with between 1.375 and 1.40 volts.
Methodology
Our standard overclocking methodology is as follows. We select the automatic overclock options and test for stability with POV-Ray & OCCT lớn simulate high-end workloads. These stability tests aim to lớn catch any immediate causes for memory or CPU errors.
For manual overclocks, based on the information gathered fromprevioustesting, starts off at a nominal voltage and CPU multiplier, and the multiplier is increased until the stability tests are failed. The CPU voltage is increased gradually until the stability tests are passed, và the process repeated until the motherboard reduces the multiplier automatically (due to lớn safety protocol) or the CPU temperature reaches a stupidly high màn chơi (100ºC+). Our chạy thử bed is not in a case, which should push overclocks higher with fresher (cooler) air.
Overclocking Results
Although our Ryzen 7 1700 chạy thử bed sample has a limitation of around 3.9 and 4.0 GHz on all but the most overkill of boards, the B350M Gaming Pro performs as expected given the relatively inexpensive cost of $80. An overclock of 3.9 GHz was achieved with the boards allowed maximum of 1.4 V on the CPU voltage core và even though the load voltage jumped up khổng lồ 1.44 V, it remained unstable during our POV-Ray testing. Users looking to overclock their Ryzen 7 processors whether that be the first or second iteration of the chips should only expect to apply overclocks with moderate voltages as the power nguồn delivery cooling on this particular model is somewhat poor for overclocking and during the testing, the svelte heatsink did warm up considerably. I am not confident the heatsink would hold up over long durations & with higher ambient room temperatures, there could be overheating problems down the line.
