Gigabyte Shows a rather unique B550 Vision D motherboard
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Mpampis
I would prefer it if the white heatsinks where single piece, but overall I like the design direction.
Surkus
Industrial/minimal design seems so refreshing after decades of all the graffiti type slogans, eagle heads and dragons in consumer oriented performance parts.
Undying
No rgb, unique design? This board sucks.
slicer
I hope you are trolling. There are millons of motherboards that have that puke RGB option, go get those.
Let there be some motherboards for grown-ups too.
Commoner
Great. And a PS/2 port. Because, 2000
icedman
I would like to see more motherboards with actual fin stacks for the heatsinks this one looks like it will run hot but Its hard to tell from the pictures.
Halfmead
Wonder how much extra they'll charge for the NVIDIA Quadro QVL test .....
Pretty sure most serious 'creators' (new buzzword these days) will go 570/TRX boards 🙂
But yeah, for boards, function over form any day... don't need flashy logo's and silly lightshow inside a closed case 😛
Pictus
Interesting, it has Thunderbolt(Titan Ridge) built-in, but they only mention as Type-C
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550-VISION-D-rev-10#kf
https://i.imgur.com/DJl7slh.png
rl66
PS/2 port and COM2 are there because USB is too slow and not enough secured in some condition.
Exemple: a key press in PS/2 is press, in USB it is put in the queue... (this is why you don't have anti-ghosting on PS/2)
The COM2 is for industry where it is standart and pro music where this port make a come back as USB fail more...
With this board you have the best of both world.
And there is the optical spdif too 🙂
Undying
Was trolling yeah. 😛
The Laughing Ma
Where was this when I was building my new PC? Was looking for a motherboard with a lighter colour as I wanted to go with a white look for system closest I could find at the time for a decent price was the Mortar B450 Platinum
nekrosoft13
if that true, there only thing missing for me is faster lan, even something like 2.5G would be better.
i could sell the X570 master, for this thing..
tunejunky
please let them release a matx version of this.
rburks
At the moment I believe there are some heavy license fees from Intel although most of that has gone away due to the conversion to USB 4.0 on this port. However Asrock has some X570 boards with real Thunderbolt ports. Ryzen has the ability for TB but most manufacturers passed on including the ports (my Gigabyte x570 Aorus Master has the header spot for it, but the port is missing [early pre-production boards did have the port].) The general idea behind this seems to be one of Intel holding back the authority to use TB on AMD systems except for the few Asrock boards. This may not be the case but after doing a lot of searching months ago to start my X570 build, this was the running consensus.
bobblunderton
I do content creation here. Bought X570, bought cheapest full ATX board so that I wasn't paying for the disco light show - Asrock Phantom Gaming 4. Really happy with it, in my closed case that I rarely open. I wanted the ASUS x570 Workstation board, really nice with fancy heat-sinks all over - but it was another 200~250$ over what I paid for the Asrock board, and that kind of money could have got me a 3900x VS the 3700x I got, and then some. Sure, the ASUS is a better made board (especially VRM design) by a long shot, but there's nothing wrong with a mid-grade motherboard when you don't push the system past it's stock operation. Spent a few hundred extra for fancy overclocking stuff, all-things-considered, on my old 4790k system in 2014 when the processor was the newest one out, and it didn't get me but 5~10% extra performance... when I could have gone X99 & and got a cheap cooler and had 50% more cores and quad channel ram / more pci-e too. Not fooling this man a 2nd time.
If something cost money and it didn't directly improve the performance of the computer respective of it's cost, it didn't make the cut & was skipped.
Don't need something super-duper fancy, not going to spend all this money to 'overclock' in cooling/motherboard/ram/case/psu etc (not even on intel CPUs), when I could have just bought a better cpu and a 25~40$ copper heat-pipe down-draft air cooler and been done with it. It just needs to work and work reliably with as little cost and maintenance as possible, and not cook me alive while doing it.
I regret nothing on this build other than I just didn't break the bank and get a 3950x from the get-go last summer (well I'd have had to wait another 2~3 months, but that's not the point).
What I was really looking for on this quiet, cool operating build, was a nice green-PCB classic-looking Super Micro board. That was precisely what I wanted, just like the good-old days. They have absolutely NOTHING for AM4 at all. Not a single board unless they've just come out with them. They only had EPYC server boards.
Though, if when building, this board was 150$ USD or near that I'd have strongly considered it, as Gigabyte generally makes a solid product. Never really had an issue with their motherboards.
Not everyone wants a 70's social club puking rainbows out of their computer case. Not every computer has to scream for attention (via a light show) like an attention deficit kid in elementary school. Boring (quiet) black or beige box ftw, just so long as it's easy to work on / in.
MegaFalloutFan
I wish they replaced one Intel RJ45 for one RealTek 2.5
anticupidon
Thank you for staying the obvious, down to Earth simple truth.
