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ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI) – iXBT

May 4, 2021February 8, 2021 by Stephen

Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) is a mid-budget chipset motherboard that belongs to the Strix series of the ROG brand. The model is quite expensive for its niche: for about the same money, you can find a motherboard based on AMD X570 – albeit with a fan on the chipset, but with its own PCIe 4.0 (B550 only supports PCIe 3.0, but processor slots can be PCIe 4.0) and wider peripheral support. True, it is not a fact that such motherboards will have an equally excellent power system, because it is it that is the main trump card of the ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi).

ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E – HKEPC

May 6, 2021February 1, 2021 by Stephen

ASROCK launched the new “Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E” motherboard. Compared with the previous generation Z490, the motherboard VRM power supply design has been upgraded to a 14-phase 50A Dr.MOS configuration, which is sufficient to cope with the high frequency and high load use of the 10th and 11th generation Intel CPUs. , Supports the latest PCIe Gen 4 transmission interface, 2.5G LAN network module, and especially uses the latest 802.11ax WiFi 6E wireless module, which supports the highest 6GHz frequency band, and the WiFi connection speed can be further improved.

MSI MEG B550 UNIFY – HKEPC

May 6, 2021January 22, 2021 by Stephen

MSI launches a new flagship motherboard “MEG B550 UNIFY”, featuring a luxurious straight-out 16-phase 90A digital power supply design, a full-coverage extended I/O cover and a double-sided FROZR metal heat sink, supporting DDR4 5100+ OC memory speed And PCIe 4.0 configuration, it also has 4 sets of M.2 SSD configuration, WIFI 6 and 2.5G LAN network module. The B550 UNIFY with low chipset positioning is unexpectedly good for the big brother X570 UNIFY, which is simply unbelievable.

MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK

January 6, 2021 by Stephen

As with the MSI MPG B550 Gaming Carbon WiFi, the MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk was also compared with its predecessor in the following. The first obvious difference is a thicker power supply and support for faster RAM. There are also differences in the slots – there are now two M.2 slots in particular. There are further upgrades to report on the network, the sound processing and the USB ports, albeit only minimally in the latter.

ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII DARK HERO

December 18, 2020 by Stephen

With the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero we are looking at the successor to the Crosshair VIII Hero in the test this year. Compared to its predecessor, ASUS has given the current motherboard with the X570 chipset a passive cooler and increased the voltage supply. Of course, the ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero can be used for all AMD Ryzen processors of the 5000 series. In the following test you will find out which features and functions are on board and how the new model performs in practice.

ASUS ROG STRIX B550-XE GAMING WIFI

December 8, 2020 by Stephen

ASUS ROG STRIX B550-XE Gaming WiFi is the ROG STRIX series motherboard, which was released specifically for the new AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors. It may seem to some that the difference in the name by only one letter does not make a new product out of the board, but in this case everything is somewhat different. Yes, the design of the ROG STRIX B550-XE Gaming and ROG STRIX B550-E Gaming is similar, but this is just not the first glance. Model XE received a new design of the cooling system (and even now it is active), a completely different set of power elements in the power subsystem, as well as something really eye-catching in the package.

ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII DARK HERO

December 7, 2020 by Stephen

ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero is a rather expensive motherboard, but its price is justified by its capabilities even in comparison with its predecessor without the word Dark in the name. Like all other Republic of Gamers boards, the new Crosshair VIII series has a first-class component base (1.5 times stronger power subsystem) and, importantly, an efficient cooling system. In terms of functionality, everything is fine – all modern ports and interfaces are available to us, including three network connections at once – 1 Gb / s, 2.5 Gb / s and high-speed Wi-Fi 6.

GIGABYTE B550 AORUS MASTER

December 3, 2020 by Stephen

There are 8 places for installing hybrid cooling fans that also accept the installation of water cooling connectors, which were previously It was limited to certain places only, and if you make a mistake by installing it in another place, the pump or panel will be damaged, the speed of the fans can be regulated with temperature reading from sensors through the BIOS of the board or an attached program from within the operating system.

ASRock W480 Creator

December 3, 2020 by Stephen

The ASRock W480 Creator is aimed primarily at creative minds and content creators. You notice this very quickly in the lavish furnishings. In addition to Bluetooth, WLAN with 802.11ax support and two really fast network cards, it also offers support for ECC memory and Nvidia Quadro cards.

The board layout is very well thought out and has been designed to accommodate many additional cards. The already existing PCIe 4.0 support is a great feature, provided that Intel supplies the corresponding processors.

MSI MPG B550 GAMING CARBON WIFI

December 2, 2020 by Stephen

With the B550 chipset, AMD has added a cheap alternative to the X570. With the appearance of the more modern chipset, the board partners have of course also presented new mainboards, which have become more attractive overall. Because in addition to more up-to-date standards with regard to expansion slots and network features, the power supply was also often drilled out – as is the case with the MSI MPG B550 Gaming Carbon WiFi here.