{"video_id":"eXTFgfHpBRo","title":"My first motherboard unboxing in 6 years - ASUS B550","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":456,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":8.849,"text":"six years six years ago was the last","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.339,"end_s":11.4,"text":"time I did an unboxing video of a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.849,"end_s":16.26,"text":"motherboard but quite frankly it's also been six years since I've had anything","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.139,"end_s":19.109,"text":"that I'm this excited about a su","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.26,"end_s":25.56,"text":"sponsored this unboxing of a handful of there be 550 motherboards and guys be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.56,"end_s":31.08,"text":"550 is basically going to be the way to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.56,"end_s":33.78,"text":"go for well until AMD bestows 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time I did an unboxing video of a motherboard but quite frankly it's also been six years since I've had anything that I'm this excited about a su sponsored this unboxing of a handful of there be 550 motherboards and guys be 550 is basically going to be the way to go for well until AMD bestows upon us something with even more value than this which honestly seems kind of far-fetched at this point let's start with the tough gaming be 550 M plus Wi-Fi which is where I think a lot of B 550 buyers are gonna end up because it is quite the sweet spot in terms of value accessories wise you got your Wi-Fi antenna you got your SATA cable IO shield M 2 screws nothing exciting there let's focus on the motherboard itself starting with the m4 socket AMD has done a great job of upholding their commitment to support this socket on a long-term basis almost to the detriment of their be 550 chipset products because one of the main differentiators between B 450 which was their last generation mainstream socket and B 550 was supposed to be support for the upcoming fourth generation rising processors based on there's n3 architecture but then they backtracked and assuming that your motherboard manufacturer decides to add bio support for those tips you will actually be able to use them which kind of raises the question why bother with B 550 in the first place and why does Linus think that this is so important the reason is that B 550 takes almost everything that I would have cared about in an x5 70 board and ports it down to a lower price point and no requirement for active cooling for the chipset so what we're looking at here is PCI Express Gen 4 link so that's double the bandwidth of PCI Express gen3 between the CPU and the primary PCI Express 69 graphic slot as well as one MDOT two slot so you're gonna be able to take advantage of double the bandwidth of PCI Express gen3 for both your graphics card and your main storage drive that you've got your OS on for years to come the other key is that within the constraints of the power delivery design that your motherboard manufacturer implements there's no limitations on B 550 in terms of overclocking either of the CPU or of the memory and this is something that I shouldn't have to bring up as a feature except that Intel recently locked down memory overclocking on some of their SKUs so that you can't get the full potential performance out of those chips a very unfortunate situation to illustrate the next big feature I actually need a different board this is the B 550 ii from ASUS rog Strix lineup sorry B 550 e gaming because it's for gamers and this puppy right here has got official support not just for AMD crossfire but also NVIDIA sli which is something that we haven't seen before on AMD's mainstream rise and chipsets because NVIDIA requires four sli certification that the 16x slot can be split into an 8 X 8 X rather than having a 16 X and a 4 X or an 8 X and a 4x as AMD allows for crossfire support but Linus you might say surely there's got to be some downside and there is x5 70 which is AMD's higher-tier chipset from this generation has a PCI Express Gen 4 by 4 link between the CPU and the chipset so what that means is that Gen 4 devices can be hooked up through the chipset and communicate with the CPU that way that's how X 570 boards can have so many and got two slots on them for example and it also means just generally more bandwidth and more flexibility for motherboard manufacturers when it comes to adding additional features to their boards so that's why you're gonna see even a high end B 550 board like this one equipped with only 2 m2 slots one of which is running at Gen 3 speeds and things like look at that we've got a ton of USB 2.0 ports on the back of the i/o plate here like what's the deal with that well the deal with that is that a gen 3 by 4 link is just not that fast so if you want to add features like in the case of the ROG Strix boards Intel two-and-a-half gigabit networking or in the case of the tough boards Realtek two and a half gig networking well something's got to give because the users going to notice if you go and pile on a whole bunch of onboard features that if they actually go and use all at the same time you end up with a big nasty bottleneck between the chipset and the CPU socket none of this is the end of the world but it does mean that motherboard manufacturers have to make choices so on this B 550 board for example ASUS was able to cram more USB 5 gigabit per second ports onto the back panel but look at this they had to give up having one of those fancy newfangled USB 3.1 gen2 front panel connectors so if you have a case that has front panel type C you're gonna have to go with something more like the B 550 e gaming little things like that and now that this one has got 2 USB 3 internal headers oh boy well that's why your back panel is full of USB 2.0 ports even this type see over here by the way is apparently an audio optimized USB 2 so I guess there's just like you know it's like a cleaner circuit board or something like that that's something I have not actually seen before to be clear I'm not too worried about any of that though most of what most of you guys need the gamers and content creators out there is high speed connections between your CPU and your memory your graphics card and your storage and B 450 takes care of all of that and if you really needed some more USB ports it's not like you can't throw a USB add-in card into one of the PCI Express slots that's available on your board so really for me this comes down to which B 550 motherboard to go for what's the right balance of you know internal headers vs. rear connectors in order for you to be able to plug in everything that you need to do you care about something like you know more robust VRMs like you might find on a Strix board versus a or a tough board do you care about all the extra RGB headers this one has 4 RGB headers two of them are 12 volt two of them are 5 volt addressable how important is that to you that's totally on you but for me B 550 is a totally exciting chipset for what is an exciting generation of chips now and an even more exciting one with Zen three-course just around the corner so thanks again to asu's for sponsoring this video you can find links to their whole be 550 lineup which is quite extensive they've got freaking ton of boards you know I didn't even I even get to one of these this is the B 550 F gaming so this is slightly lower end you've got no SLI support compared to the E and I think it drops like that that type C compatible internal connector or something like that that seems to be most of the difference I think might have one fewer RGB connector or something like that so you can check that out at the link below thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe"}