Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER ATX Motherboard for AMD AM4 CPUs

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The board as stated is positioned in an enthusiast region of what is considered the mainstream segment, it does look properly AORUS styled, stuff we like of course. Colors of products may not be perfectly accurate due to variations caused by photographic variables and monitor settings so it may vary from images shown on this site. There are many different takes on the B550 chipset and with the Gigabyte Aorus range we have three different takes, in the form of the Aorus Pro AX ITX, Aorus Pro ATX and this particular review, the B550 Aorus Master. The dual pin connectors already indicate a strong VRM, and this motherboard as such has 14+2 phases backed by 70A power stages. We will be outlining the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master motherboard’s performance with the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X CPU, 16GB of 3200MHz DDR4 memory, and an Aorus RTX 2080 Ti graphics card.

With the Smart Fan 5 software, users can choose different modes, from Quiet to Full Speed and to match their system usage preferences. GIGABYTE’s premier B550 model is the B550 Aorus Master, and it has a very premium controller set for what is considered a ‘budget’ platform. Moving down to the bottom half of the board, the audio section (far left) is mostly covered by a shroud, outside of a few Nichicon and WIMA FKP2 audio capacitors. For each fan or pump, users can use the intuitive fan curve to define trigger thresholds and corresponding fan speeds.here, cutting back to x8 won’t show any discernible difference in almost all cases with current hardware. In addition to reduced 3DMark Time Spy numbers, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is slower on Gigabyte’s system when look at both average and 1% low FPS numbers. Intel, the Intel Logo, Intel Inside, Intel Core, and Core Inside are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.

And in really small mITX cases you can't add a bracket with more USB, because the two brackets are already used by the gfx card.Needless to say, we use the best, high quality components on B550 motherboards and reinforce each part of components to be solid and durable. Included WI-FI antenna has a magnet but I swapped them for some simple generic RP-SMA antennas that simply poke out of the I/O area.