BIOSTAR Intros Racing B650EGTQ Micro-ATX Motherboard

BIOSTAR today introduced the Racing B650EGTQ, a Socket AM5 motherboard based on the AMD B650E chipset, in the Micro-ATX form-factor. The board offers a premium feature-set, including PCI-Express Gen 5 for both the x16 PEG slot, and the M.2 NVMe slot wired to the CPU. The board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, and 8+4 pin EPS. It uses a 14-phase VRM with 90 A DrMOS to power the processor. The processor is wired to four DDR5 DIMM slots, a PCI-Express 5.0 x16, and two M.2 NVMe slots with PCI-Express 5.0 x4 wiring. Other expansion slots include a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 (electrical Gen 4 x4) wired to the B650E chipset.

Storage connectivity on the BIOSTAR Racing B650EGTQ includes two M.2 NVMe Gen 5, one M.2 NVMe Gen 4, and four SATA 6 Gbps ports. This is one of the very few motherboards to wire out both Gen 5 x4 GPP interfaces of the Socket AM5 SoC as M.2 NVMe slots. Network connectivity include a 2.5 GbE driven by a Realtek 8125B controller; and preparation for a WLAN card, although the board doesn’t have any M.2 E-key slots. The onboard audio soludion features a premium Realtek ALC1220 CODEC. The company didn’t reveal pricing.