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Review: Gigabyte B550i Aorus PRO AX (Mini-ITX)
Probably this is one of the nicest B550 Chipset based motherboards we review, the Mini-ITX based B550i Aorus PRO AX, at 17x17cm Gigabyte loaded this B550 motherboard with downright amazing features including dual M2 slots, 2.5 GigE Ethernet, AX WIFI and a great design for VRM. Well, simply put it's nearly a mega motherboard at a mini size.
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Review: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master - 06/16/2020 03:01 PM
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#5800520 Posted on: 06/17/2020 03:43 PM
I mean the only reason to even consider a high priced B550 board is the aversion to chipset fans. It would be silly to buy one given the X570 boards in the same range will have more features.
Whether you like the chipset fan or not, the pricing is ridiculous.... Intel is actually starting to look cheaper....
I mean the only reason to even consider a high priced B550 board is the aversion to chipset fans. It would be silly to buy one given the X570 boards in the same range will have more features.
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#5800557 Posted on: 06/17/2020 05:52 PM
I have an MSI X570 Gaming Plus and my chipset fan has never come on even when folding at home on CPU and GPU! I'm now glad I didn't wait for B550 as it looks like X570 boards have increased in price slightly, at least in UK, and B550 pricing is stupid.
I have an MSI X570 Gaming Plus and my chipset fan has never come on even when folding at home on CPU and GPU! I'm now glad I didn't wait for B550 as it looks like X570 boards have increased in price slightly, at least in UK, and B550 pricing is stupid.
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#5800868 Posted on: 06/18/2020 01:20 PM
Yeah. Right? I might start supporting intel as it seems like they are becoming the underdog now. Strange times the world is going thru
Whether you like the chipset fan or not, the pricing is ridiculous.... Intel is actually starting to look cheaper....
Yeah. Right? I might start supporting intel as it seems like they are becoming the underdog now. Strange times the world is going thru
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#5801559 Posted on: 06/20/2020 07:10 PM
@mrvco
Until you realize GB has lots of issues stemming from dual bios.
The +300 Aorus Ultra took 20s just to POST,
tried ram training every other boot, cold boot issues,
sometimes acts like psu is dead and wont power up (after using psu switch/unplugging power cord), and sudden (crash) reboots while on low load.
All issues that i didnt have using everything on a 150$ msi board.
And of course according to GB, there are no issues with those boards (except once in a while a support tech will acknowledge isses, just not officially).
This is the worst board i had in 20y of BYO and working as a tech.
@mrvco
Until you realize GB has lots of issues stemming from dual bios.
The +300 Aorus Ultra took 20s just to POST,
tried ram training every other boot, cold boot issues,
sometimes acts like psu is dead and wont power up (after using psu switch/unplugging power cord), and sudden (crash) reboots while on low load.
All issues that i didnt have using everything on a 150$ msi board.
And of course according to GB, there are no issues with those boards (except once in a while a support tech will acknowledge isses, just not officially).
This is the worst board i had in 20y of BYO and working as a tech.
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I think I got the b450 version of this (great board btw) for only about 160$ cad this thing is 180$ Usd and the only benefit is pci-e 4.0 and an additional 2 phases. Personally I would have preferred a 4+3 phase for better igpu overclocking but they probably needed beefier cpu vrm for the 3900x.