We acquired to take a look at MSI’s new ‘Venture Zero’ vary of motherboards at Computex 2023 earlier this yrand when paired with the corporate’s compact and classy Venture Zero suitable case and new slimline GeForce RTX 40 Sequence GPUs, it was exhausting to not be impressed.
MSI B650M PROJECT ZERO for AM5 and Ryzen, picture credit score: MSI.
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Like initiatives from ASUS and GIGABYTE, Venture Zero seems to be to revamp the standard PC motherboard by putting the entire connectors (the stuff that wants cables) to the underside of the motherboard. The result’s a cleaner and extra eye-catching construct – particularly within the age of PC instances with tempered glass panels.
The excellent news is that it seems to be just like the launch is true across the nook, with product pages with full specs and particulars for 2 Micro-ATX Venture Zero motherboards popping up on-line – the MSI B650M PROJECT ZERO for AM5 Ryzen 7000 Sequence processors from AMD and the MSI B760M PROJECT ZERO for LGA1700 Intel Core 14th, thirteenth, and twelfth Gen CPUs.
Each boards characteristic 4 x DDR5 reminiscence slots, with the B650M supporting as much as 128GB capability and DDR5-7600 and the B760M supporting as much as 192GB capability and DDR5-7800. Each Venture Zero boards additionally characteristic two M.2 slots for PCIe Gen 4 storage, Wi-Fi 6E, LAN, PCI-E x16 slots for GPUs, and loads of USB ports, together with Kind-C.
MSI B650M PROJECT ZERO for AM5 and Ryzen, MSI B760M PROJECT ZERO for Intel Core 14th, thirteenth, and twelfth Gen, picture credit score: MSI.
Each sound spectacular relating to construct high quality, with a six-layer PCB with two ounces of thickened copper. Along with an prolonged heatsink, there’s one for the VRM and the M.2 SSDs to forestall throttling. Once more, the massive draw card is the entire connectors – together with motherboard energy, CPU energy, fan pins, SATA, and different interfaces have been moved to the again of the motherboard.
MSI notes that along with being supported by its “coming quickly” MSI MAG PANO 100 PZ case, the brand new MSI B650M PROJECT ZERO and MSI B760M PROJECT ZERO motherboards will be put in in sure instances from Lian Li, Sama, SilverStone, and Thermaltake.
There is not any phrase on the precise launch date or pricing for the primary two Venture Zero boards from MSI, so keep tuned on that entrance.
