First (Good) impressions of Asrock's B550 motherboard line up.
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I'm looking forward to a video where you list the best B550 boards for every price point like you did with B450!
From the 100k video it sounds like he's not, but hopefully he'll do one for us anyways. :)
Like a Shopping with BZ video or like the summary one he did with GamersNexus?
Bullzoid: Instead of making multiple videos I am going to make one really long video
Me: *falls asleep with the video on loop*
Bullzoid: *wondering how this turned profitable video*
I'm just surprised and really excited for the fact that they made B550 Taichi.
@Timothy Gillis where would you pre-order? I can't see it available for pre-order anywhere.
@@MashmanMusic Also curious, this board looks amazing.
Ikr, the x570 Taichi was already great for 300 bucks, the b550 needs to be even cheaper to make sense, thats a really great deal.
@Timothy Gillis Thats really weird.
In Germany the X570 Taichi goes for around 350€, the B550 Taichi is now avaible for preorder for 310€. The price will probably go down a littlebit over time, but not that much. If it would be around 250€ I would consider it, but currently it is a littlebit to high for me.
So this is ASRock proving they still know how to make a good motherboard, they just didn't feel like it with Z490.
and x570 imo. i look at you x570m pro.
Z490 may not sell that well. I think they are just putting the resources toward the more popular socket. And AM4 is definitely more popular among DIY enthusiasts.
Except the B550 PRO4 has worse IO than the B350 version i have.... that's sad
@@everythingfeline7367 That only applies to the full ATX B550 Pro4; the micro ATX B550 Pro4 has the exact same IO as the B350 Pro4 except that it replaces the B350's DVI port with DisplayPort.
Asrock be like: Umm eyah intel yeeet. B550 go prprpr
Someday BZ will learn about the middle-click on the mouse.
I'm kinda losing hope.
I literally thought that!, maybe... someday
or zooming (ctrl+mouse wheel). at least he's on FOXFIRE (sic) rather than IE/Edge/whatever 🤢
@@plonk420 he is using chrome in this video
And Ctrl+Shift+T to restore the closed tab.
I’ve been waiting for B550 videos
After watching your stuff on GN for a while I'm glad I found my way over here eventually. I know nothing about VRMs and haven't even overclocked a CPU once, but I still find these videos really interesting
Buildzoid on "how VRMs work" is a pretty good starting point th-cam.com/video/oDRHV3qtSWc/w-d-xo.html
@@ujiltromm7358 Thanks man! Now I'll have to go through his entire back catalogue for other primers as well :D
MSI and Asrock seems to have made great B550 motherboards that are well feature
Gigabyte and ASUS is missing front USB-C for most of their line up but has pretty good power layout (though i am not an expert)
like MSI-A PRO seem like the budget board to get if it actually is "cheap"
Msi already realized some of the price of their boards. I think for that MSI A-PRO the price is 139$ , or a little bit more expensive because i’m from europe . But indeed the both msi a-pro and asrock b550m pro 4 looks like interesting “cheap” b550 boards
I'm genuinely surprised that people are all over MSI, gigabyte and ASUS and ASrock is still not widely known, despite being a good brand for so many years.
@@Tyanu_Khah not really. ASRock has had pretty bad boards in general, sparing a few. It's not that ASRock isn't known, it's just that ASRock isn't trusty. Maybe they can make a comeback with B550s.
@@mahnamejeff7586 Hi have an ASROCK at the moment and I regret not getting the opposite MSI B450i instead. It's such a crappy board performance wise (memory clocks).
I genuinely believe Asrock doesn't care about Z490. Just look at Z490 Taichi vs B550 Taichi...
The whole Intel 10th gen line up is just a place holder. The Z490 platform is designed for next gen, a real new generation. They can wait until 11th to take Z490 seriously.
Finally, some decent-looking mATX for Ryzen 3000 series! I've been waiting 11 months for this.
11:34 AMD Ryzen CPUs get 4 dedicated NVMe lanes, so these boards with a GPU and an M.2 in the top slot will get full 16 from CPU to GPU and 4 from CPU to storage. Pretty sure the second SSD is chipset.
@CAZIBOY the Only downside is the chipset's limited bandwidth. If you were doing some mass read or write on a bunch of SATA SSDs at the same time, the 665p would have some reduced performance, but the 970 evo and GPU would remain at full bandwidth. But that's never really gonna happen in a gaming PC and if you're transferring from your main drive to a secondary drive it's all good.
I posted on your other video - B550 Aorus Master - mouse lag. I was frustrated with the B550 Aorus Master - mouse issue and decided to return it for this board. It had the same issue - and I found that in my case - UNINSTALLING the AMD Adenalin software with a clean Windows 10 build solve my mouse lag issues. I ended up choosing this B550 Taichi and it is working well for me.
So, I am blaming the mouse lag issue on the AMD software :)
The B550M steel legend and B550m Pro4 have the same pcb except for the vrm part
There seems to be an electronic hiss in your audio(probably fan noise), I recommend you use a high pass filter in post in the sub 100Hz range, probably a de-hummer too in your DAW if you have it.
asrocks matx boards being nicer than atx. good old clunky asrock, pls never change
Yes, the 6 (2x3) phase pro4 delivers 150W for the cpu. It will run everything fine as long as you don't try to oc a 3900x/3950x.
Having a decent option for an mATX board already on the first B550 video is a relieve. I plan on keeping my mATX case when I upgrade to an AMD platform and this looks rather promising with lots of USB and 6 SATA connections and decent power delivery.
but look at the m.2 slots. 1 pcie 4x4 and 1 pcie3x2 and you loose sata ports imo.
@@smilingbandit6900 Well, I don't need everything at once - as it stands I have 2x 120GB SSDs, 2x 4GB drives and one DVD drive which I still need every once in a while.
@@CaptainShiny5000 ok i just bought everything new ran core2quad was time^^ but think 1 year later and another m.2 but with the break on. i dont like it. good luck and have fun
Gamers Nexus talked about the cost of X570 chipset being around 50 USD. Given the prices of MSI and Gigabyte B550 boards, I derive that the B550 chipset won't be pennies either. That B550M-HDV is probably around 100 USD, I fear.
Edit: X570 -> X570 chipset
These boards are even better than their X570 counterparts, i thought B450/550 were supposed to be budget AM4 motherboards, it looks like B550 did not receive the memo lol
yes. this worries me. Im sitting here wondering why Im wanting to upgrade my X570 Phantom Gaming 4 to these. I just really hope my X570 has just as long of longevity in bios support and they dont try to claim 2 gens from now that B550 > X570 because of the delay.
maybe the b450 boards had better margins so didnt need cost cutbacks for next gen?
but yeah lol
Tbh the only reason I won't switch my X570 Taichi to the B550 is the lack of thunderbolt 3 support which I kinda need cause otherwise the board is basically as good but with better vrm and networking etc only no TB3 support even though there is room in the board for a header
@@The117th I don't use thunderbolt but I also have the x570 Taichi, anyone that's already on x570 and wants to go to b550.....WHY???
It's basically x570 without PCI-E 4.0 support . why some people will downgrade just because something "newer" was released is beyond me
@@mrlithium69 look at the m.2 slots. x570 ftw!
I'll pull the trigger on B550 Taichi.
man, been waiting for this!
Thanks again for the great content BZ
Press F for more USB-Ports. I really like these kind of videos.
25:00 the missing connector is labeled as TB1, it is a header for adding a thunderbolt card
Congrats on 100K subs!
I can’t wait to you do gigabytes B550 line.
Me niether 🤤
Robin Ødis if it has thunderbolt header I’m sold. $279. That board is a steal.
@@NovaDoll What will you do with thunderbolt? Just curious.
The B550 AOrus Master has the exact VRM as the X570 Aorus Xtreme, using the same PWM(XPDE132G5C in 14+2 mode) with Infineon TDA21742 70A.
@@NovaDoll As you rightly pointed out in the MSI video, the B550 is a strange decision 2 years before the EoL - & I should add: at these prices that compete directly with x570 boards.
I'm new to computer building, and have built two pc's so far. A budget build and a mid grade pc. I think clear cmos button should be on every motherboard. I had problems with both builds on clocking different components, which is how I found you. Thanks for your help Buildzoid. great video
Imagine Buildzoid being a vampire. Interesting 🤔
He is, but instead of blood, he sucks juice out of VRMS 🧛
@@robindis6274 he also breathes the magic smoke from dead/dying graphics cards :P
All the Extreame4, PG Velotica and Steel legend are all identical
they really should just put them into their own overarching board class and present them as alternative style packages.
There are not identical but similar. If you check them right there are differences. But he didn’t spot them. Velotica has a heat pipe for example. Good for water cooled systems with minor airflow.
20:10 they removed the buttons (shrugs). doesn't matter, can't see the Postcode or reach the buttons anyway there under the PCIe cards. That stuff should be up near the memory. lol. What was that phrase "and nothing of value was lost", lol.
board manufacturers go round in circles.
They make a good board, then a bad board, then a good board.
It is like this I expect.
"sales poor"
ok add diagnostics led, power/reset buttons on board, full sized board without cutoffs, intel NIC, decent VRM.
"sales good,so we drawn in the customers, now to get the margins up."
remove diagnostics led, remove power/reset buttons, cut backs on VRM, cut down width of board, so end of it is hanging off, realtek NIC.
"sales poor"
start again....
Doesn't Ryzen have 24 PCIe lanes? 16 for GPU, 4 for a M.2 SSD and 4 for the Chipset?
Yes
@@riba2233 Is it the same for ryzen`s first generation?
@@ramondiaz6044 Yes.
I love asrocks b450 motherboards, particularly the b450m pro 4 and b450m steel legend and I feel that asrock really care about their AMD motherboards unlike with their Z490 intel motherboards. Glad to see they kept up with their trend of good AMD motherboards. If I didn't already have my b450m pro 4 I would have bought on these Asrock boards, particularly the b550m steel legend.
re: 2.5G LAN, you could probably just connect 2 boxes with 2.5G together and run iperf. i don't even wanna know how expensive 2.5G+ switches cost
I fell in love with the Extreme too...$189... That's a hell of a board for that
Stephen Gill Same. Newegg has it in stock for $184.99. Plus ASRock has a deal going for a mail in rebate for $10 and another $15 if you leave a review.
Hey, can I trust the Asrock B550 Extreme4 for my first build? I'm kindof concerned with the memory support. It's QVL list is pretty tiny compared to what Msi, gigabyte or asus has. I have a thermaltake toughram 3200 kit and I'm worried whether or not it'll support.
@@rtxtitan9326 I ended up buying it. So far I like it. Only complaint is I lost 3 sata ports from using the second m.2 slot.. That was one downgrade from the x370 I had. Memory seems to be good. I put my 3200 in and easily got it stable at 3600.. Wouldn't go to 3800, but that could be the ram.
That's what asrock is banking they're money on is the B550 platform with support for ryzen 3rd gen and further.
8:30 Lol, everything went so well and then Intel 2.5G LAN shows up. The newest one that's broken. Unless they have different older ones.
(upd: nvm, Intel said they fixed the bug and supply fixed silicon now)
25:54 The point of this one is it's different color from Extreme4. Welcome to ASRock.
Until there are mass availability of cheap 2.5G switches and routers with 2.5G ports instead of 1 gigabit then motherboards coming with that is pointless imo. Faster than gigabit ports has been a thing on motherboards for a while now but there is still no switch vendors coming out with really cheap ones almost as cheap as their existing gigabit switches because 2.5G at this point isn't that much more expensive. They can reduce the price if they want. They are just still sitting on the fence because I bet the switch vendors still think faster than gigabit for the plebians of us is pointless meanwhile motherboard vendors can use it as some kind of selling point gimmick. And the cheapest switches and routers still target small businesses and not consumer level pricing. So you buy a gaming motherboard with 2.5G LAN and then you have to hit up business class vendors to complete your networking? That just doesn't make sense to me.
Around 11:30 you made a little mistake. AMD CPUs have 24 PCIe lanes: 16 (to PCIe slots) + 4 (usually top M.2) + 4 (to Chipset)
16:42 A man of culture
41:50 ITX board
Ty
Thanks!
I love that you don't have a hate boner for a specific brand, you rip them down when they deserve it and you are slightly pleased when they do really good
23:35
I think it's interesting that boards are advertising support for desktop Renoir before AMD has even announced it. We all knew it was coming, but it still seems a bit odd that they're getting ahead of AMD on confirming that desktop Renoir exists.
maybe if they all say it then they can force amd into doing it lol
I built a 3600 on the hdv board and was pleasantly surprised with its performance under stress testing. I did add heatsinks and a fan to the inductors and the 3600 is overclocked to 4.2 GHz all core and the 3200 MHz memory overclocked to 3600 MHz. I have had no problems with the board at all. I expected to, but didn’t.
I've read somewhere that AsRock decided to go all-in on AMD, that's why their AM4 boards have been that good since B450, and why their Intel lineups have been an afterthought. Apparently they made much more money in the last couple quarters than usual this way.
Their x470 an b450 boards were all garbage except the taichi, what are you on about? The only one that was a worthwhile consideration was the b450 pro 4, not cause it was good, but it was a mediocre board amongst a sea of complete garbage in the super budget price range
@@givemeajackson Pro4 is good, Steel Legend is better than Tomahawk IMO (because it has M.2 slots and USB ports unlike Tomahawk), Taichis were okay, X570 lineup is one of the better ones. Compared to Asus and Gigabyte, who only really got it on X570, AsRock's AM4 boards have only been second to MSI up until X570
@@subrezon Pro4 Intel is very good. what are you talking about?
@@woofwoof7226 I used to own Z370 Extreme4, which would be a piece of garbage even if it worked properly. CPUs were unstable on it stock (!!!) if you has C-States enabeled. It had unstable LAN and extremely noisy audio (despite all of the marketing claims). My friend has a 9700k which does 5,3 GHz on water, it didn't do 5,0 on the Extreme4.
And this board is "one of the better ones" out there from AsRock.
I'VE BEEN WAITING
Thank you Mr zoid
Pretty sure based on other manufacturer's prices that Buildzoid is underestimating the pricing on these boards by quite a bit. The cheapest of these will be around $100 not $60. I wish he was right though.
Im really interested in that B550 Taichi. Its a really good board for a “budget” chipset and just shows how far AMD has come.
This guy knows his stuff
11:35 Don't AMD processors have 20 PCIe lanes?
I'm also pretty sure about that. I even heare that they are capable of 24 PCIe lanes
yes one 16x for gpu one 4x for ssd or whatever and 4xlanes to the chipset
@@LinkStorm13 4x for connecting to chipset connection, 16x gpu,4x usually nvme or sometimes SATA additions
@@smilingbandit6900 yup
M.2 WiFi gum-stick between PCIe slots on the board. it is a junk location to run the antenna wires under the GPU up to the IO backplate.
No it isn't it makes no difference.
yeah. . it's stupid.
The Ryzen 3000 series with B550 are not 16 lanes of PCI-E from the CPU. You have 20 lanes of PCI-E 4.0 going from the CPU to a 16x slot for the GPU, and 4 lanes for NVME, additionally you have 4 lanes going to the chipset (that is to say a total 24 lanes from the CPU, of which 4 are for the chipset and sadly operating at 3.0 speeds due to the chipset)
congrats for the 100k
Sounds like Asrock put an intern on z490 and their actual resources on B550. Honestly not that surprising tbh... in the enthusiast market where these boards go, AMD is massively outselling Intel.
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That seriously sucks if true.
@@kovski8310 Asrock is a company and these boards will outsell Z490 by far. Nobody but the XOC guys really cares about Z490.
Yeah, but Intel still earning way more profit than AMD. The builder's market is small, the OEM market is huge and Intel by far still dominates the OEM market. Who cares that the Z490 sucks? Who even cares about the brands inside an OEM machine? OEM buyers don't. The salespeople just have to bull crap their way, "it has a Z490, the top end motherboard for this, blah blah blah" and boom, a sucky ASRock motherboard versus a premium ASUS motherboard inside it won't make a difference.
On the opposite, if it was the other around, good Intel motherboard, sucky AMD motherboard, that would hurt profits. As it stands, ASRock don't really need to care that their Z490s suck, as long as OEM buys them, they're fine.
thanks for reviewing these
In Renoir, the Infinity Fabric speed is decoupled from Memory speed
I thought the ryzen 3000 cpus had 24 pcie lanes ? 4 for the chipset 4 for the nvme and 16 for for pcie (usually first pcie slot).
just picked up a extreme4 over the strix for only 160$ and for all the features and the color scheme it seemed like the move to make. usb c front panel , post code, pwr, reset and watching this video got me sold. hoping the asrock bios experience isnt too bad coming from msi which has the best bios but after using click 5 bios after upgrading to ryzen 3000 chip the bios turned into trash so i dont think it could be any worse. thanks for the video!
i'm glad you liked the B550M Steel Legend cause i have that one. but great review!
9-23-20 , Saw thst Taichi Mobo in person today. BEAUTIFUL board. Props.
I was looking at those boards yesterday and they really looks interesting.
Sometimes asrock boards shows up in my country I would love to buy one, not those low end ones but others looks good.
Really hoping you’re going to give your impressions of Gigabytes B550 lineup. I can’t find a way in which the AORUS B550i isn’t superior to the AORUS X570i and your PCB analysis of it was quite in depth and very positive.
More USB on mATX versions than the ATX versions is weird, but I love it. Completely underrated form factor, any efforts to boost it up are very welcome.
48:35 Seems pretty nice to have the battery off the board that way.
It's weird looking at the B550 Taichi because I have an X570 Taichi. Just at a glance, the main differences I've seen aside from the color is the 8+8 pin EPS when the X570 has an 8+4, and the B550 loses the U.2 slot and an M.2. The layout of the boards looks almost identical.
From an mATX perspective, the B550M Steel Legend seems like a good option. And it probably would've been a good option, if it didn't share the same MSRP as the MSI B550M Mortar. The only thing the Steel Legend offers over the Mortar is two extra USB's in the rear I/O. The Mortar offers better VRM's, larger heatsinks, front USB-C (and for $10 you get Wi-Fi). You may not need these features, but since they're priced the same: "Why the hell not?"
Feels like a missed opportunity from AsRock. Gigabyte's mATX lineup is a joke, and AsRock could've capitalized on that by pricing the Steel Legend equal to the B550M Elite.
I'm actually looking forward to Teardowns and reviews of the B550M Pro4 as an upgrade from my AB350M Pro4. Need to get an R5 3600 first. If there's a better board for the same price though, I'll get that.
Buildzoid so right now there have been some photos of the VRM on the microATX Steel Legend. It does have 8+2 50A SiC654s that are on the X570 PG-X, but the rest of the VRM I'm not so sure about the quality. PWM is a 4+2 uP9505S, and the Vcore doublers are uP1911Rs. These doublers seem to have been around a while on the expensive Poseidon 1080 Ti, but I can't find anything else about them. Are they "dumb" doublers?
The other ASRock 500-series boards with 50A Vishays end up with the new Renesas controller and ISL6617 doublers, so I was somewhat disappointed to see the B550M Steel Legend using these uPI parts. I've got this board on the way and just wanted to make sure that this analog PWM and obscure doublers aren't cause for concern for 12- and 16-core usage.
Thanks for your videos!! I always turn to your channel for Mobo reviews and RAM OC'ing since you're the best! One thing I would love to see are BIOS reviews. I've only used Asus's BIOS'es and would really like to see other brands stack up. Also I've heard AsRock has a really shitty BIOS.?
ALL the MSI b550 motherboards are up and have been for a while
if you look at the Taichi it has a cpu support list “matisse 2” (the XTs). the Pro4 has a memory QVL including Renoir, you might want to check that out.
4:38 "this one doesn't have full page... we don't need a full page." : The reason I watch and subscribe and the reason you should too.
I'm keeping my eye on the B550M Pro 4 price.
Hoping for 99-119. At that price it will still out y
sell the tomahawk.
Looks like the B550 chipset cost is a bit higher than expect which ultimately have everyone lineup look a bit overpriced compared to the B450. But I have my eyes on the B550 Extreme!
Me too, B450M Pro4 it's been pretty solid for family budget builds. I hope the B550M pro4 does the same.
Yeah the b450m pro4 is really good. Hopefully the b550 pro4 is the same.
So many of these B550 boards feel so much better designed than the early X570 boards, I wish I could've waited a year before building my PC
Chances are the
Where's my Dragonator? Mother board manufacturer has to offer bios upgrades Also those motherboards They discontinue, so I don`t Expect those to phase out. The more you sell those x570 boards the less the bios support cost/sell motherboard.
Pssst, BZ... This is related to ASROCK Velocita video you made for GN and not this one...but 3 pin fan connectors aren't proprietary. Those are just DC controlled fans rather than PWM ones. I can buy literally countless fans at my local computer shop with 3 pin headers on them.
My last ASRock board was 4CoreDual-VSTA. A very weird Core 2 board with a VIA chipset, AGP, PCIE, and PCI slots. It also supported both DDR1 and DDR2.
I am not sure of pricing from Asrock so cannot comment about that. In India Asus has officially announced their pricing for B550 line up and their entire B550 line up is more expensive than their equivalent X570 motherboards. If Asrock also follows the same trend as Asus them these B550 boards are big Meh.
For eg.: B550 Strix E is INR 33700, while X570 Strix E is 31500. B550 TUF gaming is INR 19000 while X570 TUF gaming is around 17800.
Patiently waiting for B550 motherboard videos
31:58 "...you wouldn't be buying B450 boards for 3000 series CPUs, unless you were extremely desperate... um... in which case, you know, like... uh... well... still don't do that in my opinion. Just buy a cheap B550 in that case instead."
Thank you for saying it.
I've been saying this long before I watched this video, but no one seems to listen. Almost shocking how many people in forums, such as PCPartPicker STILL pair 3600 with a B450 Tomahawk MAX. It's like they watched the B450 Tomahawk paired with Ryzen 3950X a year ago, been told B450 is good enough for the 3950X, X570 is unnecessary (which I don't agree with to a large extent) and just used that basis for a year later when the B550s are out. Honestly, I think one of the things large tech reviewer channels need to do today is to clarify this "B450 for Ryzen 3000" comment they made a year ago. Yes, a year ago, for a 3600, a B450 was a good choice, but today, no, a B550 is superior in almost every way for like $20 more than their B450 counterpart. It's obvious, without being explicitly informed, i.e. without a video titled CHOOSE B550 OVER B450, people are still being led by the comment made a year ago.
Techncally you get 20 PCIE 4.0 on AMD. 16 for CPU and 4 dedicated for M.2 so what they've done is put 2 M.2s instead of a second (16 lane physical, 8 lane electrical) slot for a second GPU. Honestly I think that's probably a far better design choice, although they could have just as easily put the second full size slot and provided an 8 lane dual M.2 carrier, then they can have both features.
9:43 - If you are getting into Ocing and you start faffing with memory you'll find this to be useful very quickly.
he says to an xocer
@@ladmad9196 nah for some noobs that happen on by the comments.
Can you cover Msi and Gigabyte motherboards?
You are underestimating B550 prices!
We want the rambling about asrock's z490 please
He did the video for Gamers Nexus here th-cam.com/video/qmKiwDL3UrA/w-d-xo.html
Your assessment of the Phantom Gaming ITX board surprised me. You didn’t mention that it was missing Clear CMOS button, BIOS Flashback, and PS/2 combo port. With the benefit of seeing the initial launch price of $200 USD, I would be forced to disagree with you. The board is unacceptably priced for the features provided.
The B550 Taichi is the prettiest motherboard I think I have seen, after turning off the RGB. If only they made the wi-fi optional it would be the perfect motherboard for me. Depending on it's price it will definitely be a top contender for me.
I like to fin cooling gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro hope you can look at those soon ;)
same situation we had with crappy b350, manufacturers putting effort into what they will sell. sales for z490 will be paltry in the enthusiast market. AMD users are getting the benefit of scale
You talk about the Mem Clock - Infinity Fabric 2:1 Latency.
Do we yet know if the next Zen 4000 Desktop cpu improves this, therefore higher RAM speed might be a factor?
Yes definitely. On my 3600X currently can run Fabric clock 1866Mhz (oc) and RAM 3733Mhz.
I'd expect next 3600XT or 4600 to achieve ~1900mhz so RAM speeds of 3800 will be feasible.
Hey guys one question, what does the Vcc/SA and Vcc/IO provide "power" to? Because i've heard a bunch of confliction information, saying the System agent powers the IMC, and the IO power the IMC, but i couldn't reach to a conclusion. I also know that Vcc/IO apparently divides into 2 variants like Vcc/IO-D and another one i cant remember.
But exactly what does the system agent powers?
And what about the Vcc/IOs?
#asrockredemtionarc
I made the huge mistake of buying the x370 pro4 a year ago... thankfully my 1600af won’t be pushing it at all, but I’ll still be upgrading to (hopefully) the b550 taichi as soon as it releases
clear CMOS button on the back i/o is a must for me in my next motherboard!
Who else can't wait till buildzoid gets his hands on these boards too bad his brutally honest.
1:01:31 b450 Mortar Max in a nutshell
except that this is probably 3 phases with twice the mosfets (just like their B350 and B450 Pro4s) instead of Mortar's 4 phases with twice the mosfets (and lower RDS(on) of 3.0mΩ vs Asrock's 5.3mΩ on B350/450). fingers crossed that they used better mosfets, but i'm not holding my breath
@@plonk420 Oh yeah for sure, but I was referring to the Mortar compared to the Tomahawk
@@nero1612 Tomahawk is even better (slightly) than the Mortar with 2.8 mΩ mosfets. either way, they seem to be at least 33% better than the Asrock if they're the same as B350/B450 Pro4s. hopefully the B550 Pro4 has better mosfets, tho i'm not expecting it to.
@@plonk420 I didn't know they had different mosfets, but the b450 Mortar has 2 more usb in the rear I/O and one more M.2 than the b450 Tomahawk, which I thought was strange considering the first is a mini ATX and where I live it costs even less. Than again the b550 variants seems to make more sense.
I have had 2 ASRock X570 motherboards fail on me in the last 2 months. And a R9 3900X CPU. I am now waiting for Warranty replacements. Because of these failures I am now favouring the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master. I hope I have more luck with it and the replacement CPU (still waiting for it too).
another must use qflash was with gigabyte and pcie soundcards between bios. scared the sheet out of me, after the bios update wouldnt run with card installed. that was last nov.
Great video! Really detailed and informative.
I'm a first time builder. I know it's still early and reviews are just starting to come out, but which B550 board would you recommend at the moment? So far I'm strongly considering the B550 Tomahawk, ASrock steel legend, and ASRock B550 Extreme4. Which one would you recommend? Any other recommendations around the $180 price range?
Let's be real, these motherboard companies are probably selling and expected to sell much more AMD motherboards than intel options since it's the DIY market. On one hand you have 10th gen Intel with expensive motherboards. On the otherhand, you have upcoming renoir APU, 3rd Gen Ryzen, and future Ryzen CPUs that will make these boards sell like hotcakes. Honestly I firmly believe that this will be the last motherboard generation for AM4. Makes no sense for 600 series boards to exist when the next generation will surely move on to DDR5.
Looks like some of the info on the site has changed, looking forward to an in-depth look at the taichi now that pricing is available
Up all night? I see I'm not the only sleeping pattern victim to lockdown. Hope you get that sorted soon mate lol :)
Enjoyed the vid, love seeing these motherboard round-up type things. Can't wait to see your opinion on the rest of the B550 boards when you have more info/pics. I'm really hoping Asus don't fuck up B550 so I can get a B550 Strix potentially. Don't quite fancy paying the £250 for an X570 Strix if I'm being honest lol.
The only thing that I looking is ac1220 AMP if I can get cheaper than x570 board that b550 sold to me
Maybe they saved enough money on the materials for MATX to put more USB ports on?