ASRock B550 Steel Legend review

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Product Showcase - overall presentation

Product Showcase - overall presentation

The boards are based on a 12+2 power phase design and cooled by aluminium heat sinks. There’s no cooling fan. The motherboard has a 2.5 G Ethernet jack (Dragon RTL8125BG controller), with no onboard Wi-Fi.

 

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The motherboard provides:

  • 2 x PCI Express x16 Slots (PCIE1: Gen4x16 mode; PCIE3: Gen3 x4 mode)
  • 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x1 Slots
  • Support for AMD Quad CrossFireX and CrossFireX
  • 1 x M.2 Socket (Key E), supports type 2230 WiFi/BT module
  • 15μ Gold Contact in the VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE1)

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For storage, you get:

  • 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support for RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug*
  • 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket (M2_1), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 PCI Express modules up to Gen4x4 (64 Gb/s) (with Matisse) or Gen3x4 (32 Gb/s)
  • 1 x M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280/22110 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s modules and M.2 PCI Express modules up to Gen3 x2 (16 Gb/s)

    *M2_2 and SATA3_5_6 share lanes. If either one of them is in use, the other one will be disabled.

 Internal connectors include:

  • 1 x SPI TPM Header
  • 1 x Power LED and Speaker Header
  • 2 x RGB LED Headers
  • 2 x Addressable LED Headers
  • 1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin)
  • 1 x CPU/Water Pump Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
  • 5 x Chassis/Water Pump Fan Connectors (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
  • 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
  • 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
  • 1 x 4 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
  • 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector (15μ Gold Audio Connector)
  • 2 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 4 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection)
  • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.2 Gen1 ports) (Supports ESD Protection)
  • 1 x Front Panel Type C USB 3.2 Gen1 Header (Supports ESD Protection)
  • 1 x Dr. Debug with LED
 

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On the rear IO you'll spot:

  • 2 x Antenna Mounting Points
  • 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
  • 1 x HDMI Port
  • 1 x DisplayPort 1.4
  • 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
  • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A Port (10 Gb/s) (Supports ESD Protection)
  • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C Port (10 Gb/s) (Supports ESD Protection)
  • 2 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Ports (Supports ESD Protection)
  • 4 x USB 2.0 Ports (Supports ESD Protection)*
  • 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)

HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone (Gold Audio Jacks).

From left to right, on the rear panel, we get a DisplayPort and HDMI (both are more than enough for video), a combination PS/2 port, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports in blue, four USB 2.0 ports, a Type-A USB 3.2 Gen 2 port, a Type-C USB 3.2 Gen 2 port, a Realtek RTL8125BG 2.5 gigabit Ethernet port, spaces for Wi-Fi antennas, and audio jacks. The onboard audio is based on the Realtek ALC1220 HD audio codec. Some of the features:

  • Supports Surge Protection
  • 120dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier
  • NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier for Front Panel Audio Connector (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets)
  • Nahimic Audio

 

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    As for memory support:

  • AMD Ryzen series CPUs (Matisse) support DDR4 4733+(OC) / 4666(OC) / 4600(OC) / 4533(OC) / 4466(OC) / 4400(OC) / 4333(OC) / 4266(OC) / 4200(OC) / 4133(OC) / 4000(OC) / 3866(OC) / 3800(OC) / 3733(OC) / 3600(OC) / 3466(OC) / 3200 / 2933 / 2667 / 2400 / 2133 ECC & non-ECC, un-buffered memory*

And you have 4 DIMMs, supporting up to 128 GB of system memory.

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