Tuesday, March 10th 2020
First Picture of AMD B550 Motherboard Appears
The B550 chipset has been absent for a while, meaning that mid-tier motherboard models were lacking and that space is about to be filled. So far, the only thing we got was a B550A chipset, which lacked proper support for PCIe 4.0 connection, based on the refreshed B450 chipset. The B550A supports only one PCIe 4.0 slot, the one connected directly to CPU, while the regular, non-A version is said to deliver proper PCIe 4.0 configuration. The first picture of AMD's upcoming B550 motherboard has appeared.
Thanks to the findings of VideoCardz, we have a picture of a B550 motherboard manufactured by SOYO, a Chinese motherboard manufacturer, and the brand behind Maxsun. Pictured below is a Micro-ATX format motherboard featuring two x16 PCIe 4.0 slots and one smaller, x1 slot. There are two DDR4 slots, along with M.2 PCIe 4.0 connector. Additionally, it has some interesting dragon-inspired masking as well.
Source:
VideoCardz
Thanks to the findings of VideoCardz, we have a picture of a B550 motherboard manufactured by SOYO, a Chinese motherboard manufacturer, and the brand behind Maxsun. Pictured below is a Micro-ATX format motherboard featuring two x16 PCIe 4.0 slots and one smaller, x1 slot. There are two DDR4 slots, along with M.2 PCIe 4.0 connector. Additionally, it has some interesting dragon-inspired masking as well.
36 Comments on First Picture of AMD B550 Motherboard Appears
Also they would have silk screened PCIe 4.0 all over that board.
I managed the same overclock and it was definitely less flaky than the Abit. I guess from that tiny sample size of 1 board each it correlates with Soyo surviving and Abit dying off in the 00's
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyo_Group
It's no longer the US or Taiwanese company, it's just some Chinese company that bought the brand and uses it in China.
I had one of these babies, it was a really good motherboard at the time.
These days it's Asus, MSI, Gigabyte or AsRock. And then you notice MSI and Gigabyte use 128Mbit flash ROMs, MSI sells only Realtek LAN* and you're left with a joke of a choice :(
*not sure if across the board, but when I look, their entire X470 lineup was like that.
MSI use Killer NICs too, which are just generic Intel ethernet controllers with Killer-specific alternative drivers. You can just install the Intel drivers on a Killer NIC if you don't want the Killer software stack.
If a smaller ROM issue (that has been resolved) is the biggest issue, along with NIC type, I'd say we are in a good state. ;)
I wonder if this is a rampant issue or something a few (relatively speaking, lol) run into. I'm good with my laptop and Realtek... but it isn't an MSI (though wouldn't they use the same drivers for the same NIC)?
Long story short, some setups seem to be more trouble free than others. Without the time to invest in fixing problems, I need to take the safer route.