AMD launches B550 motherboards

I'm eyeing the Aorus ITX too, though £180 for a B550 board feels a bit too steep. Really wish i'd taken advantage of that Asus deal from a couple weeks ago now.
 
Joxeon said:
A520 boards should be arriving soon so hopefully some cheaper ITX options.
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Just realised we never got A420 boards. If the A520 boards are released alongside compatible Ryzen 4000 chips I may get one of them, unfortunately just like the GPU's and Zen 3 it's still probably 2-3 months away with consumer still none the wiser on when we can expect the products.
 
Just thought I would update, so I bought a MSI B550 Mortar (MATX) a little while back to replace a Asrock B450m Pro 4 (this had some dodgy audio issues which was returned/refunded) and have just received my Steam voucher codes from MSI (40 Euro + 10 Euro) which effectively made this a £110-£115 motherboard which with a great VRM design will also be able to support a future CPU upgrade with ease and have managed to much improve the timings on my RAM too.
 
fromage said:
Just thought I would update, so I bought a MSI B550 Mortar (MATX) a little while back to replace a Asrock B450m Pro 4 (this had some dodgy audio issues which was returned/refunded) and have just received my Steam voucher codes from MSI (40 Euro + 10 Euro) which effectively made this a £110-£115 motherboard which with a great VRM design will also be able to support a future CPU upgrade with ease and have managed to much improve the timings on my RAM too.
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What was the MSI offer? I bought the same board recently, so wondering whether it's something I'm entitled too.
 
Sounds like the A520 boards will be announced on Tuesday. Should be decent for budget building with a full Ryzen 3000/4000 support - could careless about PCIe 4.0.
 
BluesFanUK said:
Sounds like the A520 boards will be announced on Tuesday. Should be decent for budget building with a full Ryzen 3000/4000 support - could careless about PCIe 4.0.
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But manufacturers can still bring out the 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes from the CPU if running Matisse, right?
Renoir, being mobile-first, of course doesn't have any PCIe 4.0 in the first because of power consumption.
The TH review of Renoir had that Arlt system with a Asus B550 idling at 25W which is a nice 30W saving on Matisse, I think.
Will be interesting to see what A520 boards are like for efficiency, but reviews seldom cover that.
A 30W saving can add up to quite a bit for office or home office PCs.
That NUC like ASRock DeskMini with an A300 'chipset' idles at around 12W but then it also uses a 19V laptop power supply.
 
Despite B550 not supporting first gen Ryzen (1000s) turns out the Asus tuf b550m actually works with a ryzen 1600/1700 on the stock bios. I'd imagine this would get locked out in future bios updates but its still funny regardless.
 
Been sitting on the B550 release for a while as I only need a bare bones board and don't plan on overclocking. Was quite disappointed when the first ones to come out were maybe 15% cheaper than x570 at best.

That was until two weeks ago when Gigabyte started sending out stock of the B550M-S2H. Very basic, only two RAM slots (great for memory overlooking though), and so far mine has been fantastic. I wouldn't recommend one with a 3950x or something but it's perfectly adequate for my 3600. More than happy at £85 delivered.
 
My Gigabyte B550i Pro AX has been installed for a few days now, for some reason when I use the USB with my phone my phone rapidly connects/disconnects until I pull the plug, not sure what thats about

Its good to have Gigabyte fan control back though, no more messing around with fan profiles. Is it Winter? Yes, set all to Silent. Is it Summer? Yes, set all to Normal. Happy days.
 
Is it likely my MSI B550M Mortar will be okay with 4 sticks of RAM.
Got the team ripped 3600c14 16gb kit, wouldn't mind adding another.
 
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