Yesterday we told you which is the best gaming processor of the moment, which hit the market on April 6, today we bring you good news. And it is that the setup that you can mount with this CPU as the protagonist can be much cheaper than you initially expected. And it is that the Ryzen 7800X3D on A620 they have almost nothing to envy to use it on an X670 motherboard
One of the peculiarities of the A620 chipset is that some motherboards support processors with a TDP of up to 120 W instead of the usual 88 W. This is precisely the TDP that the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D has and those lucky enough to have this processor have not hesitated for a moment to see how it performs with the recently launched motherboards within the AM5 family, those that carry the A620 chipset and the results they are better than expected.
This is how an AMD Ryzen 7800X3D processor performs on an A620 motherboard
We have to start from the fact that even if we have the standard version of the board, we can connect an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D to an A620, however, the consequences of this is that the clock speed of the processor will drop to adapt to the 88 W TDP and so as not to overload the VRM of a motherboard designed for less powerful processors. So the clock speed is cut, and most likely also the voltage, so it suffers an automatic undervolting and, therefore, the processor does not perform at 100%, but at 95% of its power.
That is why we recommend you look for motherboard models with A620 chipset that support the 120 W TDP, which have better VRM configuration and cost 10 to 20 euros more. A marginal price that will allow you to get the whole game out of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D on an A620 motherboard. The only bad thing? What is not prepared for the future and, therefore, we will not be able to use NVMe PCI Express 5.0 SSD drives or graphics cards with said interface, but we will be able to assemble a good enough cheap gaming equipment.
Although our advice is that if you have the economy, go for a motherboard with the B650 chipset, more than anything to opt for greater expansion options in your computer, since they are usually limited in that regard to really ridiculous levels as long as we buy motherboards. of higher ranges. So take into account the expansion capabilities that you will need in your PC before opting for one board or another for your Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
Beware of overclocking
As a last notice we have to remember that the A620 motherboards are not pressed to overclock with the Ryzen 7000, in any of the models. So if you are looking to give your processor a little more speed, we recommend that you do not opt for this motherboard. However, if what you are looking for is to have a setup for top games without breaking the budget on the motherboard, the combo of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and an A620 motherboard can help you save a few hundred euros.
