Sunday, May 3rd 2020
AMD B550 Chipset Motherboards Priced Roughly on-par with B450 Based Ones
AMD's upcoming B550 desktop chipset, which plays second-fiddle to the premium X570, could bring relief to gaming PC builders wanting to put together 3rd gen Ryzen desktops with PCI-Express gen 4.0 graphics and M.2 SSD connectivity on the cheap. Pricing of a handful ASUS B550 motherboards was leaked to the web by Australian retailer ICIT.net.au, who listed the somewhat premium ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming for AUD $262.90, including GST (converts to USD $167 including all taxes). The retailer also lists TUF B550-Plus Gaming and Prime B550M-A at the same exact price, which could be pre-launch inflation (so we're going by the price of what could be the best-endowed SKUs among the three).
If this pricing holds up, B550 based boards could launch at prices close to those of B450 boards at launch. The B550 is AMD's mid-range desktop chipset that is expected to enable PCI-Express gen 4.0, at least where it matters the most (the main x16 slot and the M.2 slot that's wired to the AM4 SoC). Much like its predecessors, the B450 and B350, it could enable CPU- and memory overclocking. Reports dating back to Q3-2019 point to the B550 being ASMedia-sourced, and having a far lower chipset TDP than the X570 (making do with passive heatsinks like the AMD 400-series).
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If this pricing holds up, B550 based boards could launch at prices close to those of B450 boards at launch. The B550 is AMD's mid-range desktop chipset that is expected to enable PCI-Express gen 4.0, at least where it matters the most (the main x16 slot and the M.2 slot that's wired to the AM4 SoC). Much like its predecessors, the B450 and B350, it could enable CPU- and memory overclocking. Reports dating back to Q3-2019 point to the B550 being ASMedia-sourced, and having a far lower chipset TDP than the X570 (making do with passive heatsinks like the AMD 400-series).
27 Comments on AMD B550 Chipset Motherboards Priced Roughly on-par with B450 Based Ones
ASUS TUF B450-Plus Gaming is ~100€
ASUS Prime B450M-A is ~75€
Assuming AUD, the B550 prices are ~150€
web.archive.org/web/20030615000000*/ICIT.net.au
Here's their online store from 9th of March 2020:
web.archive.org/web/20200309224958/https://icit.net.au/shop/
I will be looking for a B550 from one of my usual sources though as I don't like waiting too long once a decision is made.
If B550 offers better value then it may just happen.
Looking forward to seeing some good ITX boards based on the B550. Been holding off the ITX board purchase to see what B550 offers.
In my mind a overclocking friendly chipset would be a chipset that allows to tinker with FSB's or have a seperate clockgenerator for the CPU without harming the PBO's ability in the first place. If your talking about setting a multiplier for just the CPU; again this is within the CPU set by AMD, not the chipset.
e: Damn, you said it already, well, anyway... the major difference between AMD chipsets these days are the amount of SATA etc., and that's just exactly like southbridges were.
Now we have a dozen of the same shit sort of say, the only thing making it special would be whatever you need it to your wishes. But VRM's these are no longer a selling point anyway. You could drive a 3900X on a cheap 50$ B350 board and still overclock it. All are designed within AMD's specs (and they have to) to ensure full stability even with high-end CPU's.
We have to rely on what boardmakers gives us special these days. Have a overshoot in PBO for example. Or some other cool gimmick, but we're pretty much at a point that almost every board is like the same. I bought an Asus 470-F strix. First time in my life the onboard NIC just blew up, stopped being recognized. Intel stuff obviously. I dont know what it is with Intel these days but the quality of their NIC's is'nt what it used to be anymore.
And overclocking is just artificially disabled on those non-overclockable components. Though overclocking a CPU isn't what it used to be before. I run my R5 2600 at stock and still have custom loop cooling, at least it's silent.
Do you remember the first Core 2 Duo chips that overclocked from 1.5 GHz to 3 GHz ?
It's good to extract more performance.