MSI Pro B650M-P Review: Value-minded Micro ATX


MSI’s Pro Series motherboards are designed for a wide variety of professionals. Aiming for impressive performance, high-quality components, and a positive user experience, these boards are tailored for users who care about productivity and efficiency. Priced at a budget-friendly $109.99 at the time of this writing, you get a Micro ATX form factor board with ample storage options, including two M.2 and four SATA ports, 2.5 GbE networking (Wi-Fi not included), a simple black-on-black appearance, and of course support for the latest AM5 processors including the 8000 series APUs and new Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors.

Performance with this board was a tale of benchmarks sharing a wide range of performance from the slowest to the fastest. For example, if your primary use is light to medium office work, the board does well in our Procyon tests. However, the board is limited to around 140W for the CPU out of the box, which limits performance in heavily multi-threaded work (think Cinebench, Blender, POV-Ray, etc.). If you’re a gamer and this board is on your radar, don’t fear as our results showed the B650M-P performant on that front. That said, a simple adjustment in the BIOS to raise the limits certainly helped get it back to being competitive in those tests. But this produces more stress on the paltry VRM implementation.



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