GIGABYTE B550 AORUS Master Waltzes Around Chipset Limitations to Provide Three Gen 4 M.2 Slots

TheLostSwede · May 16, 2020

jmcslob said:
That's what I'm trying say. Once you add a 2nd NVMe its got to be PCI-E 3.0 on the 550 as the chipset itself is only on a PCI-E 3.0
That's not exactly a problem at the moment. Probably won't be for most.

Hence the article, as Gigabyte found a weird workaround for that, of sorts.

Shou Miko · May 16, 2020

I am gonna wait to see what Buildzoid says about the VRM on this board before I decide to change out my MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC.

I really hope MSI brings back the Arctic theme for their Mortar or Tomahawk board because then I am totally gonna buy that one :rolleyes:

Caring1 · May 16, 2020

puma99dk| said:
I really hope MSI brings back the Arctic theme for their Mortar or Tomahawk board because then I am totally gonna buy that one

I'm waiting for the Arctic or Titanium, preferably a "Max" version as the base for a strong build.

Shou Miko · May 16, 2020

Caring1 said:
I'm waiting for the Arctic or Titanium, preferably a "Max" version as the base for a strong build.

Oh yeah I forgot about the Titanium :lovetpu:

Basard · May 16, 2020

Gigabyte's killin it these days.....

Imsochobo · May 16, 2020

TheLostSwede said:
That really is a terrible manual. But yeah, it seems the manual contradicts the spec page... Good job Asrock...

This is going to be an insane mess for people to understand when they get a B550 board and wants to put things in all the slots, as people just expects it to work if there's a spare slot.

absolutely, it's not just asrock, it's for them all.
Publish diagrams like these, they Make them, you can usually ask them and done that several times and been served by msi, asus, asrock.

TheLostSwede · May 16, 2020

Imsochobo said:
absolutely, it's not just asrock, it's for them all.
Publish diagrams like these, they Make them, you can usually ask them and done that several times and been served by msi, asus, asrock.

Those used to included in the manuals many moons ago, I don't understand why they don't still do that.

Darksword · May 16, 2020

I'm guessing this board will come in well over $200.00.

TheLostSwede · May 16, 2020

Darksword said:
I'm guessing this board will come in well over $200.00.

Based on?
I'm not saying it won't be over $200, but well over...

gamefoo21 · May 16, 2020

TheLostSwede said:
Based on?
I'm not saying it won't be over $200, but well over...

Aorus Master boards are all premium as they can get away with.

In Canada I wholly expect this board to sit at $300-350. The X570 Master sits at $500-550. That pricing makes sense honestly.

On another note...

I have tried to get board details out of Asrock and they ignored me. If I could get a schematic of my X570 TaiChi, I'd be really happy.

Turmania · May 16, 2020

I never been a fan of Gigabyte mostly I go for MSI. But last year they opened a factory in Taiwan and started producing top tier items over there. So long story short, they have won a customer.over this move.

EntropyZ · May 17, 2020

The board looks to be expensive, I mean they even provide a heatsink rather than a block of aluminum that has the surface area of a tiny paperweight.

Adam Krazispeed · May 17, 2020

gamefoo21 said:
That's kinda like how it's done on some X570 boards.

They do: x16,0,0 - x8,x8,0 - x8,x4,x4

The trade off is that you get to use the m.2 x4 lanes without giving up the 1x slots *cough* MSI *cough* or your sata ports.

Honestly PCIe 3.0 is fast enough for most NVME drives. The only 4.0 drives that keep sustained speeds high enough cost Linus money and are add in card format.

Though if you add in a third slot device no SLI for you!

sli or cfx is dead any way for one, no application or game uses mult-gpu except for maybe 3d mark or some benching software, name one game form 2018 till present thats uses Multi-gpus?

Maybe one or two and 3d mark and bench-marking software doesn't count!!!!

Decryptor009 · May 17, 2020

Adam Krazispeed said:
sli or cfx is dead any way for one, no application or game uses mult-gpu except for maybe 3d mark or some benching software, name one game form 2018 till present thats uses Multi-gpus?

Maybe one or two and 3d mark and bench-marking software doesn't count!!!!

I am personally glad it is dead, i remember pairing 480's in SLi, whilst yes it gave more performance, it looked worse visually than with a single card, could notice it was 2 cards rendering the image rather than 1, this is very off putting.

More frames =/= smoother experience.

This was with an i7 2700K too so these cards were not bottlenecked.

Imsochobo · May 18, 2020

Decryptor009 said:
I am personally glad it is dead, i remember pairing 480's in SLi, whilst yes it gave more performance, it looked worse visually than with a single card, could notice it was 2 cards rendering the image rather than 1, this is very off putting.

More frames =/= smoother experience.

This was with an i7 2700K too so these cards were not bottlenecked.

There should not be any visual difference.
Not that there is any difference to what your conclusion is though, they look identical but the frame pacing, micro stutter and not to mention the "why isn't my 2nd gpu working"
Profiles, manually creating them and what not.
But visually there was no difference in my experience ever.

Adam Krazispeed said:
sli or cfx is dead any way for one, no application or game uses mult-gpu except for maybe 3d mark or some benching software, name one game form 2018 till present thats uses Multi-gpus?

Maybe one or two and 3d mark and bench-marking software doesn't count!!!!

I'd install M2's in the other ports, all the M2's and run gpu at 8x.

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GIGABYTE B550 AORUS Master Waltzes Around Chipset Limitations to Provide Three Gen 4 M.2 Slots

TheLostSwede

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Shou Miko

Caring1

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gamefoo21

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