Gigabyte announced new X370, B350, and A320 chipset-based AM4 motherboards ready for AMD’s Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 processors.
Ryzen 5 CPUs have hit the market place along with the A320 chipset. Gigabyte highlighted the new chipset in its press release along with the new GA-A320M-HD2 motherboard .
AMD said in its own blog post that A320 boards are “specifically addressing the needs of mainstream PC gaming customers looking for a feature-rich, robust, and affordable platform for gaming PCs.”
The A320 drops five USB ports, four PCI-E lanes, and overclocking capabilities from the X370 flagship. AMD said this is supposed to help drive costs of A320 boards down to about $5. ,Right now Gigabyte’s GA-A320M-HD2 costs $70 from Newegg. The board also boasts two DDR4 DIMM sockets with support for up to 32GB of dual-channel memory system memory.
The next step up from A320 is B350, which adds two more PCI-E 2.0 Gen 2 lanes and a USB 3.1 Gen 2 port, as well as the ability to overclock unlocked CPUs. Gigabyte previously announced the GA-AB350-Gaming, GA-AB350-Gaming 3, and GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 motherboards for the B350 chipset. Now it seems to have added a few more boards to that list with the new GA-AB350M-DS2, GA-AB350M-D3H, and GA-AB350M-HD3.
There are also the new X370 chipset boards – the GA-AX370-Gaming K5 and GA-AX370-Gaming K7. X370 is the flagship Ryzen-compatible chipset, with two more PCI-E lanes and SATA-III ports than B350. Plus it supports overclocking
