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Posted by: on: 08/26/2020 01:06 PM [
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Meet the ASRock B550 Steel Legend motherboard. This series from ASRock is meant to give users great stability, a boatload of features, and an attractive design, all while keeping the price quite low. This is a 30.5 x 24.4 cm ATX factor product (there’s also an mATX version available) equipped with a B550 chipset, and it offers such features as 14-phase power design, 2.5-gigabit ethernet at about 180 USD.
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Astyanax
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Posted on: 08/27/2020 09:12 AM
signal integrity perhaps?
Why are USB-C front I/O board headers less common? You'd think we'd see them more often by now...
signal integrity perhaps?
DG21
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Posted on: 08/27/2020 10:15 AM
43°C min., 58°C avg. & especially 73°C max. for a 65W CPU?!
That doesn't sound good to me...
For comparison: my 3900x reached am VRM-max. @4.3GHz of 55°C, avg. 51°C @prime95 torture & 32°C idle on my B450M Mortar Max.
So don't get me wrong:
It may be a quite nice board (although WLAN is missing here) with nice features (e.g. ALC 1220) etc. an 12-16 core CPUs will run ok at stock/auto settings, but don't OC a 3900X(T) or 3950X unless you direkt some airflow to the VRM.
If you want to OC with an inexpensive board - better get a MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk - although it has 2 USBs less on the IO-Shield and only a ALC1200, but therefore it's 20 bucks cheaper.
43°C min., 58°C avg. & especially 73°C max. for a 65W CPU?!
That doesn't sound good to me...
For comparison: my 3900x reached am VRM-max. @4.3GHz of 55°C, avg. 51°C @prime95 torture & 32°C idle on my B450M Mortar Max.
So don't get me wrong:
It may be a quite nice board (although WLAN is missing here) with nice features (e.g. ALC 1220) etc. an 12-16 core CPUs will run ok at stock/auto settings, but don't OC a 3900X(T) or 3950X unless you direkt some airflow to the VRM.
If you want to OC with an inexpensive board - better get a MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk - although it has 2 USBs less on the IO-Shield and only a ALC1200, but therefore it's 20 bucks cheaper.
rl66
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Posted on: 08/27/2020 10:25 AM
Right now they are at MSI level, the bad quality of motherboard are from the past.
And by experience they are really good right now
For the main graphic card it's like Sapphire with cheaper cooler, it's good but for few more you can get Sapphire.
The top line of GPU is a real good card (the taichi as an exemple), i wait to see their evolution in that domain as they learn fast and have good price.
Don't buy Asrock boards and graphics cards if you value your money and sanity (first hand experience)
Right now they are at MSI level, the bad quality of motherboard are from the past.
And by experience they are really good right now
For the main graphic card it's like Sapphire with cheaper cooler, it's good but for few more you can get Sapphire.
The top line of GPU is a real good card (the taichi as an exemple), i wait to see their evolution in that domain as they learn fast and have good price.
NesteaZen
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Posted on: 08/28/2020 03:19 AM
43°C min., 58°C avg. & especially 73°C max. for a 65W CPU?!
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that's not what hardware unboxed ran into with their b550m steel legend which heatsinks' have slightly less surface area. max 57 °c with 3950x. coolest was msi b550m mortar with 50 °c. (measuring PCB backside)
43°C min., 58°C avg. & especially 73°C max. for a 65W CPU?!
...
that's not what hardware unboxed ran into with their b550m steel legend which heatsinks' have slightly less surface area. max 57 °c with 3950x. coolest was msi b550m mortar with 50 °c. (measuring PCB backside)
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