Colorful quietly put a new AMD B850 small motherboard on their Chinese website. They named it the Battle-AX B850M-E Wi-Fi V14. This board works great for cheap computer builds, unlike their fancy CVN B850I Gaming Frozen model. It measures 244 mm x 235 mm and runs all the newest AMD AM5 chips from the AMD 7000, 8000, and 9000 families.
The board holds up to 96 GB of DDR5 memory with its two slots—each slot takes 48 GB max. When pushed beyond normal limits, your memory can reach speeds of 7600 MHz, and it works with both XMP and EXPO memory settings. You'll find two M.2 slots for fast storage drives—one uses the blazing PCIe 5.0 x4 path, and the other uses PCIe 4.0 x4. Plus, you have one PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and one PCIe 4.0 x4 slot for video cards or other extras.
For the internet, the board gives you a Realtek RTL8111K chip that handles wired 1GbE connections and an Intel AX200 for Wi-Fi 6 wireless and Bluetooth 5.2. The look stays basic with a blackboard and almost no fancy parts. It has just one 8-pin EPS plug for CPU power, no built-in back panel shield, and no cooling parts in the power areas. The only heat sink covers the AMD B850 chipset.
The power system uses a simple 7+2 phase design that matches the board's budget focus. The back panel has an old PS/2 port that seems strange on a modern board. You also find six USB ports (four slow USB 2.0 and two faster USB 3.2 Gen 1), DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 2.0, a network jack, two Wi-Fi antenna connections, audio plugs, and a button that resets or updates your BIOS.
We don't know how much the Battle-AX B850M-E Wi-Fi V14 will cost. Colorful hasn't said if they'll sell it in America or Europe, either.
The board holds up to 96 GB of DDR5 memory with its two slots—each slot takes 48 GB max. When pushed beyond normal limits, your memory can reach speeds of 7600 MHz, and it works with both XMP and EXPO memory settings. You'll find two M.2 slots for fast storage drives—one uses the blazing PCIe 5.0 x4 path, and the other uses PCIe 4.0 x4. Plus, you have one PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and one PCIe 4.0 x4 slot for video cards or other extras.
For the internet, the board gives you a Realtek RTL8111K chip that handles wired 1GbE connections and an Intel AX200 for Wi-Fi 6 wireless and Bluetooth 5.2. The look stays basic with a blackboard and almost no fancy parts. It has just one 8-pin EPS plug for CPU power, no built-in back panel shield, and no cooling parts in the power areas. The only heat sink covers the AMD B850 chipset.
The power system uses a simple 7+2 phase design that matches the board's budget focus. The back panel has an old PS/2 port that seems strange on a modern board. You also find six USB ports (four slow USB 2.0 and two faster USB 3.2 Gen 1), DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 2.0, a network jack, two Wi-Fi antenna connections, audio plugs, and a button that resets or updates your BIOS.
We don't know how much the Battle-AX B850M-E Wi-Fi V14 will cost. Colorful hasn't said if they'll sell it in America or Europe, either.
