The Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO should be considered a mainstream motherboard with some advanced features. Instead of going for the best in everything, the B550 AORUS PRO tries to keep things sensible and practical.
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ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI)
One rung from the top-step, the B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) is rammed full of features, including a strong CPU power delivery, extensive heatsinks in various locations, SupremeFX S1220A onboard audio, an array of USB 3.2 Gen. 2 and Gen. 1 ports, Intel 2.5G ethernet and WiFi 6 connectivity.
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GIGABYTE B550 AORUS MASTER
Finally, B550 Chipset based motherboards are here. We start off with a very premium B550 Aorus Master, loaded with 2.5 GigE Ethernet, AX WIFI6 and three M2 NVMe slots we wonder if this awesome motherboard even belongs in the B series.
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ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI)
Little about the ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming [WI-FI] can be referred to as ‘budget’ though, as this easily could be a premium motherboard due to its features and a $229 USD price tag. The board as stated is positioned in an higher end region of what is considered the mainstream segment, it does look properly STRIX styled, stuff we like of course.
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GIGABYTE B550I AORUS PRO AX
Probably this is one of the nicest B550 Chipset based motherboards we review, the Mini-ITX based B550i Aorus PRO AX, at 17x17cm Gigabyte loaded this B550 motherboard with downright amazing features including dual M2 slots, 2.5 GigE Ethernet, AX WIFI and a great design for VRM. Well, simply put it’s nearly a mega motherboard at a mini size.
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ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS (WI-FI)
There’s an 8+2 power stage arrangement paired with two very large heatsinks, which is a huge step up from equivalent B450 boards in the TUF range. Those heatsinks kept the VRM temperature, as measured by our external IR probe, below 50°C with our Ryzen 9 3900X.
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The AMD B550 Motherboard Overview
That changes with the new B500 series as consumers no longer have PCIe 4.0 on the chipset, instead reverting back to PCIe 3.0. This ultimately should not be an issue, as budget builds are unlikely to have multiple PCIe 4.0 add-in drives, for example. Nonetheless, the high vocal demand for B550 motherboards, especially after AMD launched Ryzen 3, has not gone unnoticed, and there are over 40 new models in the market, most of which should be on sale from today.
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GIGABYTE B550 AORUS MASTER
In the Gigabyte range the Aorus Master is comfortably the most expensive, with a MSRP of £300, compared to the £195 of the Pro or £185 of the ITX Pro, so you need to make sure that you desire all it can give you. Speaking of which, let’s run over the specifications and imagery before we install our Ryzen 9 3900X and find out whether it is worth its salt.
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GIGABYTE B550 AORUS PRO
The Aorus Pro still has all the parts we want – PCI Express 4.0 (albeit few lanes than the X570), USB 3.2 Gen2, support for 5GHz+ DDR4 and all the Ryzen CPUs. In fact it’s tough to see exactly what you’re missing out on if you choose to go down the B550 route or even just the Pro rather than the Master.
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ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI) & ROG STRIX B550-E GAMING
When the ROG Strix B550-F and B550-E arrived in the office we felt like doing them together as one review, just to show that point about things being nearly identical. In the end though, the changes between the two were significant enough that we wanted to show how curious it was that two motherboards will fairly different approaches to cracking this particular nut were still branded as the same thing.
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