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six years six years ago was the last

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time I did an unboxing video of a

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motherboard but quite frankly it's also been six years since I've had anything

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that I'm this excited about a su

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sponsored this unboxing of a handful of there be 550 motherboards and guys be

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550 is basically going to be the way to

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go for well until AMD bestows upon us

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something with even more value than this which honestly seems kind of far-fetched

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at this point let's start with the tough gaming be 550 M plus Wi-Fi which is

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where I think a lot of B 550 buyers are gonna end up because it is quite the

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sweet spot in terms of value accessories

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wise you got your Wi-Fi antenna you got

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your SATA cable IO shield M 2 screws

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nothing exciting there let's focus on

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the motherboard itself starting with the m4 socket AMD has done a great job of

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upholding their commitment to support this socket on a long-term basis almost

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to the detriment of their be 550 chipset products because one of the main

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differentiators between B 450 which was

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their last generation mainstream socket and B 550 was supposed to be support for

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the upcoming fourth generation rising processors based on there's n3

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architecture but then they backtracked and assuming that your motherboard

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manufacturer decides to add bio support for those tips you will actually be able

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to use them which kind of raises the question why bother with B 550 in the

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first place and why does Linus think that this is so important the reason is

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that B 550 takes almost everything that

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I would have cared about in an x5 70 board and ports it down to a lower price

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point and no requirement for active cooling for the chipset so what we're

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looking at here is PCI Express Gen 4 link so that's double the bandwidth of

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PCI Express gen3 between the CPU and the primary PCI

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Express 69 graphic slot as well as one MDOT two

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slot so you're gonna be able to take advantage of double the bandwidth of PCI

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Express gen3 for both your graphics card and your

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main storage drive that you've got your OS on for years to come

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the other key is that within the constraints of the power delivery design

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that your motherboard manufacturer implements there's no limitations on B

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550 in terms of overclocking either of the CPU or of the memory and this is

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something that I shouldn't have to bring up as a feature except that Intel

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recently locked down memory overclocking

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on some of their SKUs so that you can't

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get the full potential performance out of those chips a very unfortunate

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situation to illustrate the next big feature I

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actually need a different board this is the B 550 ii from ASUS rog Strix lineup

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sorry B 550 e gaming because it's for

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gamers and this puppy right here has got

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official support not just for AMD crossfire but also NVIDIA sli which is

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something that we haven't seen before on AMD's mainstream rise and chipsets

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because NVIDIA requires four sli certification that the 16x slot can be

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split into an 8 X 8 X rather than having

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a 16 X and a 4 X or an 8 X and a 4x as

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AMD allows for crossfire support but

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Linus you might say surely there's got to be some downside and there is x5 70

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which is AMD's higher-tier chipset from this generation has a PCI Express Gen 4

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by 4 link between the CPU and the chipset so what that means is that Gen 4

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devices can be hooked up through the chipset and communicate with the CPU

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that way that's how X 570 boards can have so many and got two slots on them

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for example and it also means just generally more bandwidth and more

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flexibility for motherboard manufacturers when it comes to adding

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additional features to their boards so that's why you're gonna see even a high

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end B 550 board like this one equipped

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with only 2 m2 slots one of which is running at Gen 3 speeds

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and things like look at that we've got a

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ton of USB 2.0 ports on the back of the

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i/o plate here like what's the deal with that well the deal with that is that a

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gen 3 by 4 link is just not that fast so if you want to add features like in the

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case of the ROG Strix boards Intel two-and-a-half gigabit networking or in

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the case of the tough boards Realtek two and a half gig networking well

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something's got to give because the users going to notice if you go and pile

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on a whole bunch of onboard features that if they actually go and use all at

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the same time you end up with a big nasty bottleneck between the chipset and

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the CPU socket none of this is the end of the world but it does mean that

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motherboard manufacturers have to make choices so on this B 550 board for

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example ASUS was able to cram more USB 5

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gigabit per second ports onto the back panel but look at this they had to give

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up having one of those fancy newfangled USB 3.1 gen2 front panel connectors so

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if you have a case that has front panel type C you're gonna have to go with

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something more like the B 550 e gaming little things like that and now that

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this one has got 2 USB 3 internal

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headers oh boy well that's why your back panel is full of USB 2.0 ports even this

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type see over here by the way is apparently an audio optimized USB 2 so I

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guess there's just like you know it's like a cleaner circuit board or

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something like that that's something I have not actually seen before to be clear I'm not too

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worried about any of that though most of what most of you guys need the gamers

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and content creators out there is high speed connections between your CPU and

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your memory your graphics card and your storage and B 450 takes care of all of

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that and if you really needed some more USB ports it's not like you can't throw

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a USB add-in card into one of the PCI Express slots that's available on your

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board so really for me this comes down to which B 550 motherboard to go for

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what's the right balance of you know internal headers vs. rear connectors in

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order for you to be able to plug in everything that you need to do you care

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about something like you know more robust VRMs like you might find on a

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Strix board versus a or a tough board do you care about all

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the extra RGB headers this one has 4 RGB headers two of them are 12 volt

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two of them are 5 volt addressable how important is that to you that's totally

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on you but for me B 550 is a totally

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exciting chipset for what is an exciting generation of chips now and an even more

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exciting one with Zen three-course just around the

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corner so thanks again to asu's for sponsoring this video you can find links

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to their whole be 550 lineup which is quite extensive they've got freaking ton

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of boards you know I didn't even I even get to one of these this is the B 550 F

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gaming so this is slightly lower end you've got no SLI support compared to

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the E and I think it drops like that that type C compatible internal

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connector or something like that that seems to be most of the difference I

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think might have one fewer RGB connector or something like that so you can check

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that out at the link below thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe