Question Question Does anybody know if a Gigabyte a520m s2h is compatible with a 3200g? I have read it boots, but games or 3d tasks, crash the system.

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It's for my parents, my dad would game sometime, light games, maybe civ V, civ VI, stuff like that. The rest would be Netflix, Office type stuff, video calls etc.
Would it crash without a DGPU? I already have the 3200g, ordered the motherboard, but can still cancel.
I know it is an old mobo and an even older cpu, but maybe you guys know if Gigabyte a520 mobos are compatible with 3rd gen Ryzen APUs or not.
 
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That's a very low end motherboard. But, the 3200g is a very low TDP processor and while it's not a great board, should be fine for that processor. It's only a 45-65w part.

Somebody having crashes was likely somebody running a low quality crappy power supply or running PBO and overheating the VRMs, or simply had a bad board.
 
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if it's any help, I bench tested a spare gigabyte A520I AC a few weeks ago, I've had that mobo lying around since I bought it for a different project last year (and ended up not using it), I tested it with the Ryzen 3 3200G from my main machine because that's what I'm planning on running it with in my next build, it booted to bios first time with no problems, I didn't do anything to the bios, just what the mobo had on it straight out the box

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dan1991Ro said:
This guy
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMf3JvqLFQs
did a video after the bios that claims to support it, for a different a520 motherboard from Gigabyte, yes, but it had the same bios update and it didnt work with the gpu part of the APU in games.
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just watched the video you linked, he says it specifically says on the box that it won't work with the two CPU's he mentions, I can't find anything like that printed on the box for mine, so I don't know if that in-comparability is only a thing with the exact mobo he has? if it is it might just be to do with the boards architecture and not the chip set

I will look into it some more (partly because I don't want any nasty surprises with my Christmas project) and I'll let you know
 
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dan1991Ro said:
This guy
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMf3JvqLFQs
did a video after the bios that claims to support it, for a different a520 motherboard from Gigabyte, yes, but it had the same bios update and it didnt work with the gpu part of the APU in games.
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That's probably because the iGPU didn't meet the minimum requirements of the games he was attempting to play, or because the iGPU on that CPU had problems not related to the board itself. Or the board itself had problems. Wouldn't be surprising on a board that cheap. Garbage in, garbage out. But for a Ryzen 3, the requirements for VRM and cooling can't get much lower compared to other options.
 
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RAIDGoblin said:
just watched the video you linked, he says it specifically says on the box that it won't work with the two CPU's he mentions, I can't find anything like that printed on the box for mine, so I don't know if that in-comparability is only a thing with the exact mobo he has? if it is it might just be to do with the boards architecture and not the chip set

I will look into it some more (partly because I don't want any nasty surprises with my Christmas project) and I'll let you know
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He is saying that any graphically intensive activities, that run on the GPU part of the APU, without a DGPU, crashes the system, even though the system booted fine. Its not on this video, I thought it was. . He was starting CS GO back then, and the system was crashing. He was saying he tried every bios since then, but no go, and different ram sticks in the commenets. But maybe they fixed it with additional AMD drivers and BIOS updates.
 
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Coming back after more research, the mobo the guy is talking about in the video has this on it's box:
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it specifically says it's not compatible with the 5 3400G and the 3 3200G, the motherboard you have ordered (A520M S2H) has the exact same warning on it's box, so it's likely running it using onboard graphics with the 3200G will yield the same results

If you plan to use a GPU I don't think you need to worry about it, but if not perhaps you should cancel your order?

From what I've read it appears to be the board architecture that has this issue, not the chip-set it's self, there is no warnings of this kind* in the manual for my 520 mobo, even tho I'm mostly sure it's the same series, just a different size so I would expect it to be exactly the same compatibility wise

*[edit] seems I'm wrong, this warning does appear on gigabites website, perhaps they only recently started printing it on the box, looks like I need to find a spare GPU 😱
 
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dan1991Ro said:
It's for my parents, my dad would game sometime, light games, maybe civ V, civ VI, stuff like that. The rest would be Netflix, Office type stuff, video calls etc
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for alternatives, I've been running the 3 3200G with Gigabyte B450M Gaming, until recently I didn't have a GPU, it was stable on internal graphics under quite high demand ruining minecraft, I just ended up with an awful FPS, it never crashed, for civ, streaming and office it would be more than good enough

to get the same one as me you would have to go second hand, but you can still buy B450 motherboards new, that might be a better option

(apologies for the double post, I couldn't work out how to get the quote in through editing)
 
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RAIDGoblin said:
Coming back after more research, the mobo the guy is talking about in the video has this on it's box:
amd.png

it specifically says it's not compatible with the 5 3400G and the 3 3200G, the motherboard you have ordered (A520M S2H) has the exact same warning on it's box, so it's likely running it using onboard graphics with the 3200G will yield the same results

If you plan to use a GPU I don't think you need to worry about it, but if not perhaps you should cancel your order?

From what I've read it appears to be the board architecture that has this issue, not the chip-set it's self, there is no warnings of this kind* in the manual for my 520 mobo, even tho I'm mostly sure it's the same series, just a different size so I would expect it to be exactly the same compatibility wise

*[edit] seems I'm wrong, this warning does appear on gigabites website, perhaps they only recently started printing it on the box, looks like I need to find a spare GPU 😱
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At this point, Im really curious if it will work. If it doesnt I'll just return it and get a b450.
 
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