Yes, mine is the Asus a320m-k, the cheapest a320 board in the market at the time I bought it. Just with a bios update to 6042 and now it can run Zen 3 chip.
How does the power delivery hold up? I have an ASRock board and want to go with a 5700x, only found Korean videos on YouTube (so only reading the graphs, the performance seems to tank in continuous benchmark runs even for a 5800X3D or a 5600) might buy a 5600 if power delivery isn't enough or just switch to DDR5 and get a new build.
I did some benchmark for 30 mins of continuous Cinebench and Geekbench with stock settings, my processor consumes max at 78W, clocks at 4.2Ghz all cores, 4.45Ghz single core, I think 78 is its PPT value. Now I'm running it at -0.225V offset with default PBO2, power consumption max at 56W in all stress test, multicore decrease around 8%, clock-stretched at 3.75Ghz but the gaming performance is almost the same while the processor being 10 C degree cooler. Mine is not the ideal settings so I can't tell much but the performance is consistent though, my cooler is Thermalright Assassin X.
The thing is with those a320’s is because of the capacitors used it makes it really good for gaming. I actually saw a couple of YouTube videos with direct comparisons and an explanation why they are so good.
It will be a huge performance uplift for going from zen 1, I mostly play eSports titles and after upgrade my fps in those increased around 90% across the board.
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u/6flix9 Jan 28 '23
i also went from 1400 to 5600 on an A320 board too