ASRock B550 PG Riptide Review

Name: ASRock B550 PG Riptide
Brand: ASRock
Price: 165 USD

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on Oct 22nd, 2021,

in Motherboards.

Manufacturer: ASRock

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Finished Looks

The ASRock B550 PG Riptide features a neutral black aesthetic with silver accents on the VRM and chipset heatsinks. The neutral color tones will nicely match a wide range of builds. When powered on, the chipset section has RGB lighting enabled by default. These LEDs are embedded into the motherboard and not attached to the chipset heatsink.

Test System

Test System
Processor:	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 4.6 GHz (maximum Boost clock), 64 MB Cache
Memory:	2x 8 GB DDR4 3600 MHz G.SKILL Trident Z Neo F4-3600C16Q-32GTZN
Cooling:	Custom loop: EKWB Quantum Velocity, D5 pump, 380/480 mm radiator
BIOS Version:	1.3
Graphics Card:	EVGA RTX 2080 FTW3 Ultra
Harddisk:	1x Crucial MX500 500 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (OS) 1x Crucial P1 1000 GB NVMe SSD (data) 1x Corsair P600 1000 GB NVMe SSD (I/O testing)
Power Supply:	Corsair HX1200 Platinum 1200 W
Case:	Primochill Praxis Wetbench
Software:	Windows 10 Pro 64-bit NVIDIA GeForce 471.96 WHQL

Supporting Hardware

Testing is performed with the newest available version of the BIOS at the time. All BIOS settings related to the CPU are left untouched. XMP is enabled for the memory. However, if the primary, secondary or tertiary memory timings are incorrectly set by the BIOS, it is tested as-is to mimic a standard user. The same goes for the CPU. Unless it is a bug in the current BIOS—i.e., not present in other versions—any and all CPU boost parameters are left alone.