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we decided to buy the cheapest rice on motherboard on Amazon and as of November 15th that was at the gigabyte a 320 M s 2h this video is sponsored by world of warships naívi haven't already heard of this game you are missing out it's so cool to be able to support something like this well the four ships has the perfect balance of action and strategy with a heavy dose of true to life graphics ship design and physics command a massive naval fleet with over 200 unique ships and play across 11 different nations it doesn't hurt to try and I've got a feeling you'll be hooked best of all you don't need to pay anything to play join now by the link below and register with the code play war ships 2018 to receive 252 balloons 1 million credits of premium ship and more this motherboards a peculiar one falling into the micro ATX subset the board is also physically slimmer than conventional ATX counterparts meaning you might have some extra space between your 24 pin and the cable routing cutouts in your case aesthetically it isn't the sharpest tool in the shed I mean this is a $50 board but at least it doesn't look like this we've got a black PCB for starters one full 16-lane gen 3 PCIe slot and two smaller single-lane slots just below the s2h does not support crossfire or SLI not that you could manage to make it work anyway with this slot config the board also lacks integrated Wi-Fi only has two DIMM slots two fan hubs and a barebone audio interface with the ALC 8 8 7 codec not all is bad however one pleasant surprise is that this board supports 2nd gen rising processors out of the box including Rison 22 and 2400 gaap use with either you'll be able to make use of the HDMI port not sure which gen we're looking at here since it isn't listed meaning it's probably 1.4 this is disappointing seeing as though rising AP use openly support hdmi 2.0 configs for 4k 60fps playback though with 1.4 you'll be locked to 4k 30 this was confirmed with my 4k panel you'll need discreet graphics if you intend to use this board for an HT PC which is a bit disappointing why would you buy a micro ATX in the first place but if you aren't an HD user just yet you'll still find DVI and D sub ports on the s2h additional rear i/o includes two ps2 ports for USB 3.1 ports two USB to ports and an rj45 port packed with the realtek Gigabit LAN driver the remainder of the board's layout is it's fairly straightforward the a320 chipset resides under this small heatsink doesn't really do much for SATA three ports are staggered to the right and the 24 pin sits in its usual spot along with an 8 pin EPS up near the top left another peculiar feature of this board is MDOT to support if you plan to use an Athlon processor for this board you'll be locked to the state or interface but horizon processors can drive a PCIe based connection for use with significantly faster solid-state drives this is something I did not expect to find and a $50 board but I'll take it no heatsink is included but you know it's still cool that it's there now if you're worried about power delivery yeah it really shouldn't I mean not that you could conventionally overclock with this chipset anyway I actually found that the BIOS will make it seem as though you're overclocking but you really can't and like I said earlier buyers of these boards should be those concerned with very tight budgets so overclocking probably isn't at the top of your priority list with that said let's take a look at the vrm anyway the a 220 M utilizes an is l9 5 7 2 which is actually the same chip gigabyte uses and it's B 350 and X 370 motherboards it relies on a 4 plus 3 phase array nothing on this board is doubled meaning that we've got two phases up top for SOC and 4 down to the left of the socket for v core for core CPUs it shouldn't have a problem with this board and because this is a lock tips that we don't expect anything approaching 10 watts of heat from the vrm itself for C 10 in MOSFETs on the high side for Co 6 is on the low side and we do have 2 of those per face no vrm heatsink is included with this board however which again complements the locked aspect of the chipset all in all despite a subpar power delivery system we've got going on here this is actually pretty good one seen in the context of other first gen rising boards from gigabyte you'll actually find that a lot of B through 50 boards use a very similar set up from a power delivery standpoint so I'm actually I'm kind of impressed here in the nine five seven one two is the same Intersil PWM generator regulator I should say that is used in those higher-end boards too so Oh No kind of cool now in our testing the soc VR I managed to fare sixty degrees Celsius of via probing keep in mind actual temps were likely hotter but we'll use the same testing methodology going forward a top mounted CPU fan config certainly does play a role into our VR M's peak temperature so expect this to change if we switch to something a little more aftermarket like maybe a hybrid 212 Evo or a cryo rig age 7 our 65 watt 1300 X while under an identical load managed to pull almost as exact TDP about 64 watts as measured with our clamp meter over hot lines in our EPS the CPU reached a comfortable 71 degrees and our stock cooler managed to stay under 40 decibels thanks in large part to the CPUs low TDP now with respect to the s to HS BIOS it's pretty much what you've come to expect from most gigabyte boards at this point I'm not the biggest fan of this style UEFI but it does get the job done fan curves can be configured here boot drives can be selected here and XMP profiles can be toggled here that's pretty much all you need to know about this a320 BIOS given the fact that the chipsets you know boasting a very limited set of functions I mean you can't do much other than maybe overclock a ram and like I said change pan configs and select your pooch I don't know what else you'd want to do on an a320 BIOS but that's about all I was interested in now one thing I do want to show you in real time I have seen a few instances and forums where people have claimed they've been able to overclock on a 320 chipsets and I think what they're actually seeing here is the fact that they can like I said in the video manually toggle the multiplier right the CPU clock ratio this is what gigabyte calls it so you can change this to whatever you want look I can change this to I can change it to 55 boom I got a 5.5 gigahertz overclock right on paper but then we go to save this and this setting will hold by the way this will show up again if we if we reboot it'll it'll act as though it's stuck now but we'll go to save and exit and I'll show you in CPU Z what the system is actually reporting the CPU frequency is operating at and it is nowhere near 55 actually it will cap at around 3.6 which i think is what the cpu out of the box essentially turbos to its am version of just automatic overclocking so we're opening up cpu-z and obviously if the 5.5 gigahertz overclock actually stuck there's no way we put into the operating system there's I have not come across any CPU that will just you know allow me to Auto voltage manually overclock multipliers 55 and let it boot stable so that's the that's the first red flag second is that CPU Z is saying that we're running at every now and then it Peaks to three point eight but when we run an all core benchmark let's say night of 64 which is what we did in the video then you'll see this core speed will cap out at roughly thirty six hundred megahertz that's 3.6 gigahertz and that is essentially the cap for the CPU without any manual overclock set which tells us that anything we're doing in the BIOS or the bio says that we're actually overclocking is not actually sticking in the system so I have a feeling that most if not all of those people claiming their a320 chipsets allow them to overclock or actually just falling for the placebo effect if we ran Cinebench before and after a manual overclock in our BIOS then we would probably see no gain at all because we're not actually changing anything the BIOS just says we are and also for those wondering there is no base clock toggle anywhere in here it seems this was disabled blood fall which would also indicate that gigabyte does not want you to do any manual overclocking at all that would be our second resort right basically overclocking was something we did heavily with locked Scylla excused from Intel there is no toggle for that that I can find in this BIOS here so here's a synopsis on the DL as bare-bones as this thing is gigabytes actually included a few decent features including the 10.2 port we addressed earlier along with pwm fan support usually just see voltage control but pw support is nice you'll still find a USB 3 hub as well something i forgot to mention earlier just know type-c support but all in all for 50 bucks CA through 20mm s2h is too shabby I mean now now listen for the question of kebaya bility which i want to talk about next that's a different story the a320 chipset is packed full of compromises including but not limited to obviously CPU overclock ability all rise in CPU support unlock multipliers so it seems kind of like a waste to pair them with locked chipsets especially the higher-end skis it's a bit like on intel side purchasing an i5 8600 k and then pairing it with a B 360 chipset in my opinion those two just don't add up and to be honest 2 gigabyte sells a nearly identical be 350 boards for something in the realm of like 5 to 10 bucks more so the idea that 80/20 chipsets have a place in the market at these current price points seems a bit far-fetched I would say this this should be priced more in the realm of 40 bucks or less my advice is spend a few extra bucks on the better board maybe even a better vrm than the one gigabyte recycled through pretty much its entire first gen rise and lineup nothing performance wise was really an issue here but the lack of native overclocking support is a real kick in the teeth in my opinion there may be occasional BIOS updates that support overclocking in the future you know base clock overclocking but as a general rule these chipsets are locked because their power delivery layouts aren't rated for higher wattages I mean come on imagine like running at 2700 X overclocked on this port here the vom doesn't even have a heatsink and when you're dealing with a hundred amps right under load things can get quite toasty and that's dangerous so if you're intent going into this video was to give the a320 chipset a chance you don't for most if not all gamers on a budget the be 350 or 450 chipsets will go a long way for just a few extra bucks again the overclocking is a huge part of that but you may also get onboard Wi-Fi crossfire and SLI support additional SATA ports RAM slots I mean two Ram slots are you kidding me the list goes on I did have a lot of fun creating this video though and I do appreciate you taking time out of your day to indulge and you're a morbid curiosity like I did here cheap stuff is always fun to test maybe next time I'll throw 2,700 ex into this thing and overclock it until the chokes melt away I don't know I might want to try that outside we shall see if you guys like this video thumbs up thumbs down if you feel the complete opposite if you hate everything about it you know what to do red subscribe button is down below if you want to click that I would appreciate it stay tuned for the next video this is science studio thanks for indulging in your curiosities with me