AMD has grandly launched the A620 chipset motherboards with its partners to help users transition to the DDR5 era without digging a big hole in the wallet.
Of course, being at the lowest tier of the hierarchy against the X and B series boards, the A620 focuses on delivering value right here and now because PCIe 5.0 is already out of its reach so no futureproofing here. Only 1 GPU lane of the PCIe 4.0 x16 is available alongside one M.2 NVMe slot which makes up a total of 32 PCIe 4.0 lanes. And yes, CPU overclocking is disabled in this board, and although technically it can support any class of CPU (with supported AGESA versions of course), AMD rates all A620 boards for 65W TDP and lower for the most ideal condition.
According to official slides, it supports even the Ryzen 7 7800X3D albeit no overclocking can be done but hey, the rise of AMD EXPO means that one can manually overclock the RAM or apply those one-click OC profiles for an instant performance boost.
Brands such as MSI, ASUS, GIGABYTE, ASRock, and BIOSTAR are pushing their models into the market as of now so your local PC shop should be ready to make you a new budget build upon request.
