Cheap cool, fast chinese AM5 MoBos - JGINYUE and what else?

[Leaky_Lamp]

I was quite surprised by some Chinese PC motherboards.

For example, JGINYUE’s B650I “Night Devil”.
AFAIK, it has no peers western brands. Not at that price.

It’s a mini-ITX MoBo that was reviewed well in the west and can run RAM smoki’n fast ( people have reported 8400MHz).
And it cost €100 or less. I’ve found links in China for €55.

Fits like a glove to something like 8700G or upcoming Zen5-based APUs that we are to see in 2026.

But now they have models with much beefier VRM that can feed even an overclocked 16-core.And PCIe5 GPU slot and M.2.
Something like B650E “Snow Dream”.

Unfortunately, this one has 4 RAM slots, so memory overclock might not go as high as 2-slot boards.

But this is where B850M Aurora-B comes in.

Unfortunately, Aurora doesn’t have that big VRM.

I sure hope they do B650E μATX version of “Night Devil”.
Existing B650M “Night Devil” looks GREAT, except that it has PCIe4 only.

I haven’t checked the prices on any of these yet, but I’d be surprised if they are more than €120 in China.

Given that this doesn’t quite fit all of my needs yet, I’m still looking.

Questions:

• Are there other Chinese names worth knowing about WRT interesting, fast, cheap MoBos ?
• Are there other cool, cheap Chinese MoBos that can do PCIe5, both for dGPU and M.2 ?
• Does anyone have recent hands-on experience with these things?
• Where is best to get them ?
• People have been reporting on first Chinese DDR5 chips and sticks. Does anyone have more data on that ? These sure could come handy now…

[EniGmA1987]

My main concern with cheapo chinese boards like this is bios updates and security, but looking at Jginyue’s website it looks like they have substantial bios updates for the board.

When I go mini-ITX or even smaller, I typically want something low power draw as well so I am partial to the ones with soldered on laptop CPUs to the board. These are typically good pricing as well compared to adding a desktop CPU into them.