[Bon plan] Colorful B850I Mini-ITX motherboard at €129.99 delivered

You have wanted to set up a configuration for a while AM5 in format Mini-ITX with a recent chipset AMD B850 ? This is an interesting idea, but it is true that the cards in this format are expensive. They seem to make us pay for the fact that not many of them are marketed. The cheapest usually sold in France is around 200€, the ASRock Phantom Gaming B850I Lightning WiFi, then we almost immediately reach 250 € or more… If you have a small budget and your goal is not to set up a high-end configuration, this can quickly discourage and make the desire to go away. get into ITX.

However, here is an interesting alternative if you feel concerned by our introduction, because at an extremely competitive price. And if you considered the option Colorful CVN B850I GAMING FROZEN V14 ?

Colorful is almost not distributed in France, because the brand is aimed primarily at the Asian market and more specifically Chinese. However, here is this beautiful and well-offered motherboard on a site whose address ends with “.fr”, following the arrival of Joybuy in France. This allows you to purchase a product that we are not specifically supposed to see here, on a site that complies with French sales regulations. It’s always more reassuring.

And here the deal is really excellent, because we looked at what price this Colorful CVN B850I GAMING FROZEN V14 is currently selling for in China. The answer is the equivalent of approximately 170 or 175 € including tax, on the most popular sales platforms there, such as JD.com (which also owns Joybuy). With us, it is currently on sale at only €129.99, and with free delivery this motherboard. An unbeatable price, therefore.

In terms of characteristics, we are also on something complete and which does not suffer from any particular defect. Support for all current AM5 processors, with a very correct 9+2+1 phase power supply (Dr. MOS 60A), two DDR5 slots announced at 8000 MT/s in OC, a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot for the graphics card, two SSD slots, one in PCIe 5.0 and the other in PCIe 4.0 (on the back of the motherboard). No bad news on the connectors with for example 8 USB ports on the rear panel, a 2.5G Ethernet port and the card even has Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 despite its reduced price.

We remind you in passing that Colorful is not a “noname” brand, we are not sending you to the rescue over something unknown to the battalion. On the other hand, let us point out that this manufacturer is not known for monitoring its BIOS, even if the firm has recently made efforts with a BIOS graphical interface, which you will find on this model. It only prevents the latest BIOS, version 1025, from November 10, 2025 for example. We are talking to you about this in relation to the scalability which could be called into question, or at least delayed. If you are thinking, for example, of switching to a new AMD Zen 6 Olympic Ridge processor as soon as these become available in 2027, buy this Colorful motherboard is perhaps not the best advice to give you, with this BIOS tracking not guaranteed or in any case slow. If, on the other hand, you have in mind to build a current, well-established AM5 configuration, and only consider a possible upgrade much later, which will give Colorful time to update itself, then this purchase makes perfect sense in our opinion.

Colorful CVN B850I GAMING FROZEN V14 à 129,99 € livrée chez Joybuy

The official product sheet of the motherboard, to find out more about it