AMD B450 Motherboard Review Collection
We haven’t seen many B450 motherboards in for review since they launched, so today is a good day. I have in my hands, the B450M Mortar from MSI. We loved their B350 version which joined us with the previous Ryzen launches, and they should be a nice upgrade for it. It’s still pretty much the same design, but a few nips and tweaks are included.
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Gigabyte’s B450 Aorus Pro retails for around £100 and for the most part has everything you need to build a typical modern PC. If you need a couple of hard disks, an SSD, and single graphics card, you’ll lose little compared to an X470 board, and you even get ALC1220 audio and Intel-powered LAN.
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Our success with the X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WIFI gives us high hopes for the lesser B450 Aorus Pro board, but Gigabyte does hold back on some features that could have made this board spectacular. Regardless, the B450 chipset is a sweet spot for builders and gamers who don’t need X470’s added feature set, and Gigabyte delivers a great product with the B450 Aorus Pro WIFI, at a surprisingly affordable $120 MSRP.
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The majority of the aesthetics on boards like this correspond to a red and black theme. Both of the included heatsinks feature a red metallic finish, while the chipset heatsink has the ASRock Fatal1ty logo printed on. The B450 Gaming ITX/ac doesn’t contain any built-in LED lighting, but present is an addressable LED header to make use of ASRock’s Polychrome certified RGB capability.
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With the new ASUS motherboard packing support for Aura Sync RGB lighting tech, Intel Gigabit Ethernet, GameFirst, one-click optimisation and overclocking, and the fantastic SupremeFX S1220A audio hardware and Sonic Studio III, it’s pretty robust on paper. Of course, none of this tech is particularly new either, so we know it’s all good stuff.
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The new generation of AMD’s motherboards is here at last. While there’s not much in the way of “new” tech on this launch, it does look like it’ll be tackling an important mid-budget price bracket for the market. With all the experience they’ve gained from their X370 and B350 motherboards, it looks like they’ll be merging the two into B450.
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AMD’s latest midrange B450 platform is making quite the splash by offering 99% of what its bigger X470 platform does, but without the price tag to match. The main difference between X470 and B450 is the latter’s lack of being able to split the CPU’s PCIe lanes to more than 1 GPU, but that won’t really matter here on an…
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Naturally in the ITX format there are some reductions in power phases and PCI Express slots to accommodate the small form factor, but for those of you who run a single GPU, a decent but not extravagant amount of DDR4, and a handful of storage options then the Strix B450-I wants for nothing.
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There are only minor differences between the AMD X470 and B450 chipsets used on the new MSI B450 motherboards; you get two fewer Gen2.0 PCI-E Lanes, four fewer SATA ports and no SLI support. You still get Cross Fire support but only 2way, the same as the B350 chipset. What you gain is the StoreMI and Precision Boost Overdrive, so you can use the free StoreMI program with an inexpensive 2TB HDD and 256GB SSD drive to gain enhanced storage capacity and speed.
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Today AMD releases the long-awaited midrange chipset in its 400 series lineup, B450. MSI has several motherboards ready to go for this more affordable platform, and we’ll be taking a look at the latest offering from its mid-range but still well-equipped Arsenal Gaming segment, the B450 Tomahawk. Packed with features gamers need to stay strong under fire, the B450 Tomahawk…
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