No, not comfortably: the MSI PRO B650M-P has one x16 slot plus two x1 slots, and the Elgato 4K Pro needs PCIe 2.0 x4. Evetech sells the board at R2,499, and a graphics card fills the x16 slot.
The MSI PRO B650M-P has one full-length x16 slot and two x1 slots, and the Elgato 4K Pro needs a PCIe 2.0 x4 connection. Put a graphics card in the only x16 slot and nothing left on the board gives the capture card the four lanes it wants. That is the whole problem in one sentence, and it decides whether this pairing works.
Not comfortably. The MSI PRO B650M-P has a single physical x16 slot and two x1 slots, and your graphics card will occupy the x16 one. The Elgato 4K Pro needs PCIe 2.0 x4, which neither x1 slot can provide. Evetech sells the board at R2,499, and the sensible fixes are a board with a spare x4 slot or a different capture route.
The B650M-P is a micro-ATX board on the AM5 socket. Its slot layout is one PCIe x16 slot wired to the processor at PCIe 4.0, plus two PCIe x1 slots at PCIe 3.0 that connect through the chipset. It also carries two M.2 slots for SSDs.
With a Ryzen 7000 or 9000 processor, the x16 slot runs at full x16. With a Ryzen 8700, 8600 or 8400 series chip it drops to x8, and with the 8500 or 8300 series it drops to x4, which matters if you are tempted to look for a way to share it.
Elgato lists the 4K Pro's interface as PCIe 2.0 x4. That is a four-lane card, so it needs a slot that is wired for at least four lanes and is physically long enough to seat it. The x1 slots on the B650M-P are neither: they have one lane each, and a standard x4 card edge does not fit in a closed x1 slot.
The graphics card takes the x16 slot. Even if you wanted to run the capture card there instead, you would be left with no graphics card slot. On this board the choices narrow to either a graphics card or a four-lane capture card, not both.
Do not cut a slot open, and do not buy an unverified riser or adapter to force the fit. Cutting a closed slot ruins the board and invites damage to the card. A cheap adapter can drop the link speed or fail altogether, and you would lose the clean 4K signal you bought the card for.
If you would rather stay with this motherboard, look at capture devices that connect over USB instead of PCIe, or move the 4K Pro to a board with a spare x4 or x16 slot below the graphics card. Check the exact slot layout before buying anything, because it varies by board.
Before spending, write down the three numbers that matter: the lanes the card needs (4), the slots the board has that can carry them (0 once the graphics card is installed), and your budget for a replacement board or a USB device.
The PRO B650M-P board alone is R2,499 at Evetech, and it also appears inside upgrade kits that bundle a Ryzen processor and 16GB of DDR5 memory from R8,999. Some of those kits state that a discrete graphics card is required, which is the very slot conflict this article describes.
In a small case, the problem has a second layer: even with a free x4 slot, a double-width graphics card can cover the neighbouring slot. A Pretoria streamer building a compact box for a spare room should check slot spacing as well as the slot count. The streaming essentials shelf and the microphones range cover the rest of the setup, and the guide on what a new streamer needs is a decent checklist.
Not comfortably. The board has one x16 slot, which the graphics card uses, and two x1 slots that cannot supply the four lanes the 4K Pro needs.
It uses PCIe 2.0 x4, so it needs a slot wired for at least four lanes.
We would not. Cutting risks the board and the card, and adapters can limit the link or fail. Choose a board with a suitable slot or a USB capture device.
The board alone is R2,499.
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It can be, because compact cases tempt you to use micro-ATX boards with few slots. Count the lanes and slots before choosing the case.
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Not comfortably. The board has one x16 slot, which the graphics card uses, and two x1 slots that cannot supply the four lanes the 4K Pro needs.
It uses PCIe 2.0 x4, so it needs a slot wired for at least four lanes.
We would not. Cutting risks the board and the card, and adapters can limit the link or fail. Choose a board with a suitable slot or a USB capture device.
The board alone is R2,499.
The streaming essentials range spans R199 to R6,799 and takes in Stream Deck dials and microphone accessories.
It can be, because compact cases tempt you to use micro-ATX boards with few slots. Count the lanes and slots before choosing the case.
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