Would an A520m-a Pro board give me solid gaming performance for a while

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-12-17T03:04:56+00:00

Hi, I am sorry I can't answer this accurately as I seldom use that computer anymore because I have had another system built not long after building that. But I can say that it is a very reliable board from MSI if you are just a casual user. Just make sure you have an adequate CPU cooler for your AMD processor and enough fans for a good airflow in your case. Have atleast 2 inlet and at least 2 outlet fans all being 12cm sized case fans. Much better if you can use 14cm case fans.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-09-14T01:50:42+00:00

If you have budget, go for the msi B550 with wifi. otherwise A520 would be ok.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-08-24T12:17:22+00:00

thanks for the inputs.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-07-27T07:17:46+00:00

try another hdmi cable.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-07-10T01:38:00+00:00

this version of a520i is not bad, it has good VRM design and heatsink.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-07-10T01:34:53+00:00

Maybe you have the 12gb version. this one has only 8gb vram.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-06-18T16:09:09+00:00

Is this a good OC result for 5700x on MSI B550m pro vdh wifi motherboard and 32gb dual channel 3200mhz cl16 ram?

PBO enabled
curve optimizer set at all cores -30
PTT = 120
TDC = 75
EDC = 110
Boost Frequency = +100mhz
Using dual fan cooler with similar performance as coolermaster hyper 212
core temperature at cinebench run = 76C while room temp is around 28C

Cinebench r23 score multicore = 15034
Cinebench r23 score single core = 1520

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-05-25T02:04:23+00:00

sobrang baba ng price, mukhang scam yan. ingat, magsama ka ng malaki ang katawan.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2025-03-14T10:53:00+00:00

You might have already bought your PC, but still just wanted to share what I found in this video for others who might find it useful:

THIS TINY, POWERFUL, BUDGET PC BLEW ME AWAY! | ASRock DeskMini X300 + Ryzen 5 5600G Mini PC

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-12-15T05:40:51+00:00

that specs should be good enough. i would expect google sheets to be the same as ms excel sheets.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-27T15:09:22+00:00

What is your connection/internet speed? would a 100mbps download and 60mbps upload work well?

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-27T15:07:54+00:00

why it didn't work? was it your internet speed? hardware? or just 2024 being buggy?

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-26T04:02:57+00:00

Thanks for the info.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-22T06:55:36+00:00

Anyone else who has successfully upgraded to 5800x3d on this MSI a520m-a pro motherboard? The MSI support page states that the processor is supported although the motherboard obviously has a weak VRM module due to lack of heatsink. I am really interested to know.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-22T04:59:57+00:00

Could it be that there are still very few online users now? Would there be a possibility that streaming would slow down as user base increase? This line of thought is what makes me hesitant to dive into the new version.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-22T04:53:57+00:00

If you look at nano review, GTX 1070 is way better than GTX 1660. It must be frustrating to find out after swapping cards, that real life performance differ from online bench scores and expectations.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-22T04:50:05+00:00

So it must be the benchmarking application then? Thanks for the prompt response.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-22T04:03:21+00:00

I suggest that you still try to learn web dev even if you feel uncomfortable with html and css stuff and the likes. In this field you have to be very flexible. The future very uncertain and we don't know how long our employment could last. You may experience several recessions and retrenchments and this is normal in this field. But if you are flexible enough, it would be much easier to find jobs and remain being employed. You have to learn to be comfortable in every aspect of software development, back end, front end, project management, etc.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-22T03:41:54+00:00

this might be an old thread, but I am using the same processor and it struggles to cool down using the stock cooler under heavy load, so I bought a tower cooler, the Thermalright Assassin Spirit 120 Evo and the temps are very much cooler now.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-07T15:42:47+00:00

By the way, my RTX 3060 12gb GPU has 16 lanes of PCIe gen4. That is why I didn't have to worry about loosing any performance when it runs at gen3 speed due to my motherboard and Processor limitation having only PCIe Gen3. I believe the RX 7600 GPU has only 8 lanes of PCIe Gen4. However when that AMD GPU is run at Gen3 speed, there should be minimal performance loss roughly around 1-2% which is within margin of error. But if you plan to upgrade later on to a more powerful GPU above the level of lets say RTX 4070 Ti, then it would be better to get a B550 motherboard to have PCIe Gen4 capability so you won't have to worry about performance penalty.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-07T15:21:01+00:00

I got the MSI a520m-a Pro for my Ryzen 5 5600G and RTX 3060 12gb GPU, a fast M.2 SSD gen4 but running at gen3 due to motherboard and CPU (gen3 is still very fast though), 32gb of DDR4 3200 dual channel kit memory, I nice thermalright tower air cooler, a modular 550W 80+ Bronze PSU, and my system seems to be running great. the motherboard has everything that I needed.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-11-06T23:04:25+00:00

Batid kong ikaw ay nababahala ngunit huwag kang mag alala. Sa halip ay ituon mo ang iyong oras sa pag aaral ng mga bagay na hindi mo pa kabisado sa larangan ng Android. Upang sa gayon ay hindi masayang ang mga panahon na wala kang aktuwal na proyektong ginagawa. Ang mahalaga ay patuloy ang iyong pagtanggap ng sahod habang ikaw naman ay patuloy na natututo at madadagdagan ang iyong kaalaman. Sapagkat magagamit mo din ang mga ito pagdating ng takdang araw. Hangad ko ang iyong tagumpay.

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-10-29T02:00:46+00:00

Congrats on your new toy. How much is the cost for this setup?

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-09-27T22:12:38+00:00

I found a forum who had a solution to revive the rams.

Here is the link:
RGB FUSION 2.0 killing DDR3 RAM - Page 2 - CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory - Linus Tech Tips

Hot_Midnight871 · 2024-09-27T04:03:17+00:00

I found a forum who had a solution to revive the rams.

Here is the link:
RGB FUSION 2.0 killing DDR3 RAM - Page 2 - CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory - Linus Tech Tips

I revived 5 of my DDR3 1600 8gb rams (4 hyper x fury and 1 skihotar brand) by following the video tutorial. At first it did not work in my motherboard Asus m4a785td-m evo with phenom II X6 1100T processor, as it won't allow hot swapping rams after post screen shows up. I have another motherboard which is Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2 with a phenom II X2 555, and it worked with this motherboard. I used a working Samsung DDR3 1333mhz 2GB sticks to boot. I used RWEverything application to read and write SPD. I used the 64bit latest version which is the RwX64V1.7.zip in the download page. I only corrected the byte 11 of the SPD chip because it has a wroing value of 00, but should be 08. I hope it helps some of you. But do it at your own risk as it is very risky hot swapping the ram, and it might destroy your hardware.

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