A YouTuber has compared the Ryzen 7 7800X3D on motherboards both cheap and fancy, with interesting results.
For a long time, your choice of motherboard has had very little impact on your CPU’s performance. That’s changed recently with the growing popularity of >150W CPUs; buying a cheapo mobo could sharply limit your CPU’s clocks due to the manufacturer having skimped on the power delivery hardware. Thankfully, that doesn’t seem to be an issue with the new Ryzen 7 7800X3D.That information comes from Korean YouTube channel minteger, which tested the eight-core X3D CPU on a Gigabyte A620M Gaming X motherboard. Systems using AMD’s A620 chipset don’t support Precision Boost Overdrive, and minteger did record lower clock rates while gaming on the lower-end board than on an MSI X670-P; about 4.4 GHz on versus 4.
