Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro review

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The motherboard follows a standard ATX form factor (30.5 x 24.4cm). The motherboard is located in the AORUS Pro value range of the Ryzen Zen+ desktop processor product stack. You'll spot this B450 mobo for 139 EUR/USD.

 

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Size ATX
Chipset AMD 450
Memory 4 x DDR4 up to 32000(with Zen+) Original Ryzen up to 3200 MHz
Multi-GPU -
Expansion

1) PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16 Gen 3link CPU)
2) PCIe 3.0 x16 (x4 Gen 2 link chipset)
3)PCIe 3.0 x16 (x1 Gen2 link chipset)

Storage 2 x M.2 (1x NVMe x4 Gen3 / 1 NVMe x2 Gen2 )
6 x SATA 6Gbps
Networking Intel Gigabit Ethernet
Audio Realtek ALC 1220
USB AMD Ryzen™ 2nd Generation/ Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics/ Ryzen™ 1st Generation/7th Generation A-Series/Athlon X4 Processors : 
2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 port(s) (2 at back panel, , Type-A)
AMD Ryzen™ 2nd Generation/ Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics/ Ryzen™ 1st Generation/7th Generation A-Series/Athlon X4 Processors : 
1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 port(s) (1 at back panel, , USB Type-CTM)
AMD X470 chipset : 
2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 port(s) (2 at back panel, )
AMD X470 chipset : 
4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 port(s) (4 at mid-board)
AMD X470 chipset : 
6 x USB 2.0 port(s) (2 at back panel, , 4 at mid-board)
RGB 1X Addressable and configurable 5v/12v RGB strip headers

The unit has enough features to keep you busy for a while. The looks pass anything that can be considered entry-level or value really, including a rear IO bracket, the primary graphics slot has metal shielding and M2 SSD heatsink coolers.

  

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The motherboard includes all of the standardized B450 chipset options with one full speed M.2 SSD slot, the second one uses x2 a Gen2 PCIe links. The board follows standard ATX Form Factor.

  

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The I/O back panel reveals several USB 3.1 ports. The audio unit is based on Realtek 1220. You will spot one 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet jack from Intel. Lacking is a PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port. Included is an optical S/PDIF out port and five analog audio jacks. New is that integrated backplate IO cover, which we find lovely.

 

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The board comes with one 8-pin power connector. There's also LED enablement on (and under) the board, as well as RGB, LED strip connectors you can configure with software. The board has 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, the first one being a full x16 PCIe Gen3 linked from the processor. The second one is x4 Gen2, the third one merely an x1 link and also is Gen2 PCIe as they are linked from the chipset.  You'll get four DIMM slots that can be used for up-to 64GB of dual-channel memory. With regular Ryzen procs, up-to 3200 MHz is supported in OC mode, with the new Zen+ models 3466 MHz is supported. Please do check compatible memory and thus the QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists). The board also has some RGB (configurable) options embedded, see below.

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