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Or a B450 indeed, especially the MAX boards for the price.
Or a B450 indeed, especially the MAX boards for the price.
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Just wait until B550 is relesed in a week or two and then we will know. No-one has their hands on the boards yet.
Clearly though the cheap B550's will be cheaper than the cheap X570's and in general B550 will have less high-end features. Search youtube for X570 vs B550 videos discussing them.
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I actually like the look and specs of the Asus B550 E Gaming, 14+2 phases, they have to get the price at sweet spot, however being their top B550 board will probably be in the Gigabyte B550 Master range .
So basically the battle will be in the sub £200 range for best B550 motherboards, interesting battle ahead
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Yup.
Thank you, it was the USB front and rear info I was interested in.
I am not convinced that tech data is actually correct consider what they've put compared with the sockets themselves.
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OCuk have this board listed on their site now, just awaiting the stock: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...-am4-ddr4-x570-atx-motherboard-mb-351-ms.html
The only thing I dont like about it is it has the realtek LAN instead of the Intel, I hard wire to my router, but its meant to have amazing VRMs.
I wish it had the newer ALC1220 Codec rather then the older ALC1200, my next board purchase I'll be using the onboard sound so want the best I can get built-in.
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They've just made some cut backs here and there to keep the price below other X570 boards, but at the same time, keep the VRMs good.
I still think it's a good board but not on my list, my next board I'll will not be overclocking, getting old and the my current OC board will be the last overclocked one, OC no longer interests me, just want a good stable board with features at a decent price.
Good VRMs are needed if you want every ounce of OC. I still think VRMs are important even if you don't OC.
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Completely agree, I dont manually overclock my Ryzen either, its just sitting at stock, boosting as it pleases, its not worth overclocking them, you may get slight all core benefits, but then you loose out on single core performance, six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Hardware unboxed did a good review on that board showing that the VRMs were basically up there with the £700 Godlike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD65w5RVmtY&t jump to 2mins 50.
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Haha this is my plan but I'm just impatient having waited so long. My build is scheduled for completion in november at this rate
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Taichi has the best B550 VRM apparantly.
Sigh. Please provide sources to random statements...
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Yes sir.
The ASRock B550 Taichi is arguably the most premium B550 of this lot. It appears to have the strongest CPU VRM solution, pulling power from two 8-pin EPS connectors, a 16-phase VRM, full front and back metal shrouds, completely reinforced PCIe and memory slots, PCI-Express 4.0 x16 (x8/x8) multi-GPU capability, and a trio of M.2 slots. 802.11ax + 2.5 GbE is standard issue. Lastly, there's the BIOSTAR Racing B550 GTQ, a mid-range Micro-ATX board that covers all the platform basics.
https://www.techpowerup.com/266760/assortment-of-five-amd-b550-premium-motherboards-pictured
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B550 Taichi/index.asp
Probably has better than mine, lol.
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What puts me off of Asrock is I repeatedly read on review sites (Gamers Neus for example) that their BIOS are much worse than other manufacturers with features sometimes not working. Hardware-wise though they look great.
I'm on my 3rd different platform ASROCK board and I'd have no issue buying another. They're definitely worth the money in my opinion without being the real high end boards.Thanks.
What puts me off of Asrock is I repeatedly read on review sites (Gamers Neus for example) that their BIOS are much worse than other manufacturers with features sometimes not working. Hardware-wise though they look great.