From my own experience, the Gigabyte B550M Aorus Pro-P is a decent motherboard for CPU and RAM OC. Managed to lower my latency to 65.0ns with Zen 2 Ryzen 9+ 32GB RAM with it.
Oh, so they designed the b550m pro-p with a updated vrm and nic from the pro and slap 2 additional layers for the wifi slot and the updated mem topology. Super interesting.
I went and checked the prices of this board on my local retailers since I figured they'd magically have this way ahead of everyone else again. The price is $166/£121/€141 (converted from my currency). Checking the price of the non-wifi version (Aorus Pro-P) on PCPP, my local prices seems to be accurate and in line with the usual 10 bucks increase with Wifi versions.
Just another awesome video from BZ. Your content is absolutely golden. I am a huge fan! I would really love to see if you can cover a daily bclk overclocking video because most of the gamers have a non K skew from intel because most of the major youtube channels recommend an i5 cpu over an i7 or i9 cpu on the intel department of things and if you do a video about bclk overclocking on a lower bin intel cpu like i5 10400f or something like an i3. I am pretty sure it would be extremely benefitial to many people.
@@a_loli I can't post links for whatever reason (my comment gets deleted immediately if I do) but I'm pretty sure every MSI mainboard has that "feature". It's a little strip in the bottom left corner where they left out the silkscreen and the layers are numbered. Just search up any MSI board review and look at the pictures :)
@Actually Hardcore Overclocking Gigabyte now has a Rev 1.1 on their site for this board. It looks like the only difference is that they changed the WiFi from the Intel AX200 to an AMD WiFi Module... Do you know anything about the 1.1 version? Also, those of us in the US can't seem to get this board even though they list it on their US site. Their customer service is really bad and they gave me a short response saying that the board isn't available in the US, but wouldn't answer if it would be made available. Any idea from your contacts if they are going to release this in the US? Also, I have an MSI MAG B550M Mortar WiFi and the Intel WiFi doesn't work out of the box which I am now learning is a common problem and their tech support has you doing things like clearing the BIOS and they told me to make sure there were no grounding issues. A lot of people are having this same issue. I suspect that this was the reason why gigabyte released rev 1.1 of this board.... I think that Intel WiFi is junk. Thoughts?
Nippon, tho I have doubts about the Ebay listing for similar cans. E45c not E00L as well. appears to be the only manufacturer with 'E'-number-number-letter on the top line.
The flood of errors with fclk 2000 and up seems to be a b-die issue. Most people reporting no problems use djr. Some reports also state that smaller boards have less issues and it may be related to pcie instability on higher infinity fabric bus speeds. I have only 1 board and no djr are to test :/ USB glitching can usually fixed with vsoc and vddg iod.
I think recent BIOSes have 'fixed' the USB bugging out - I've just run through a bunch of testing on B550's and none of them exhibited it with the most recent stable BIOSES. I still have a B550 Mortar on an older BIOS and that loses it's USB every once in a while.
Hey buildzoid, quick question. I have a crosshair vii hero so I'm not too sure on upgrading since I just got a 5950x and 6900xt to replace my 2700xt and Vega 64. I've been thinking of upgrading to an x570, I dont XOC but I love overclocking/tuning everything. What are your suggestions on mobos to get? I've loved the crosshair vii's UEFI but with all these other x570 boards I'm struggling to get a good answer on the topology for them for OCing memory. Specifically for 4x8gb configurations. My other option is to stay on x470 but that's in the air right now
I've been dailying my 5800x synchronized fclk with 2x8 b die for quite a while now with maybe like.. 2 memory pool allocation crashes that I can remember? Getting another set of 2x8 next week and hoping to maintain 4k speed with reasonable timings, although that new x570S Unify does have my interest
Re: ASRock having issues with 2x16 and 4x8, I have an X570 Taichi and it refuses to run 4x16 of Hynix AFR (rated 3200 CL16) at anything above 2933 (but it does so at CL14 so this looks like a frequency wall). Not sure if related or if my memory config is too garbage for the controller to handle.
My Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 can cool 200A (~260W @5GHz) from an Intel 10900k. Why wouldn't it be able to cool the 5950x? The heat even is better distributed.
I contacted Gigabyte and after TWO WEEKS they sent me a terse message telling me that it's not available on the US market. I sent them a response saying basically "WTF, then why do you put it on your US site?" Their response? "Thank you for your feedback". FML
@@objecttothis Guess I'll be going with my first ASUS MB then if I can find the B550-I on sale before the AX manages to make it to market. IF it ever does.
As soon as I see how crooked the components are on this board, I'm done with it. If they didn't control production quality it seems a gamble that they controlled it on the planning side.
I thought this was the only 6 layer AM4 mATX. Am I forgetting? Also, I want this motherboard to exist in the US so bad. I don't know why I can't get it anywhere yet. Almost bought a Chinese one to try and flash an English BIOS onto it.
@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking ASUS doesn't say anything about it being 6 layer, which makes me think it's not. Some review websites say it's 4 layer, too. I'm currently using a B550M Steel Legend, and for some reason my 2 2x8GB kits of Trident Z RGB (SR B-die) run /together/ at 3600 14-15-15-34, but I can't get it to boot above 3733 for any reason. I have a 2x16 Ballistix Sport LT kit on the way, expecting similar results since it's a dual rank kit on a B550M Steel Legend. Hoping the Aorus Pro AX can be the one that manages to give me 3800-4000MHz with either of these kits.
Only caps which are unacceptable are Chinese like Aishi. Taiwanese manufacturers are fine but if an paying like 200+ I like to see Japanese ones Rubycons are my personal choice.
I'm big fan of his style of breakdown.Keep it up! Now i'm very interested if this mobo can beat the B550M Mortar and the Asus B550M TUF
Can't wait until the X570 Dark PCB breakdown, seems like it will be a powerhouse like the Z590 Dark.
From my own experience, the Gigabyte B550M Aorus Pro-P is a decent motherboard for CPU and RAM OC. Managed to lower my latency to 65.0ns with Zen 2 Ryzen 9+ 32GB RAM with it.
Oh, so they designed the b550m pro-p with a updated vrm and nic from the pro and slap 2 additional layers for the wifi slot and the updated mem topology. Super interesting.
Does that mean better VRM temps or just better boost clocks for the CPU? Apologies as I have little knowledge to this kinds of thing.
I went and checked the prices of this board on my local retailers since I figured they'd magically have this way ahead of everyone else again.
The price is $166/£121/€141 (converted from my currency). Checking the price of the non-wifi version (Aorus Pro-P) on PCPP, my local prices seems to be accurate and in line with the usual 10 bucks increase with Wifi versions.
Thanks for this, was looking at this board.
Just another awesome video from BZ. Your content is absolutely golden. I am a huge fan! I would really love to see if you can cover a daily bclk overclocking video because most of the gamers have a non K skew from intel because most of the major youtube channels recommend an i5 cpu over an i7 or i9 cpu on the intel department of things and if you do a video about bclk overclocking on a lower bin intel cpu like i5 10400f or something like an i3. I am pretty sure it would be extremely benefitial to many people.
Wow, the technicality of this review is insane! Thank you very much for this.
Thanks for this interesting look, been contemplating a B550 for a extra media pc XD, Thanks for the content
I would recommend the Aorus B550I-Pro AX for under 160 because it’s component quality in a really really good. 90A SPSs, good caps, nothing bad.
+1 for this recommendation
I wish every mainboard had that little window in the bottom left where you can see the PCB layers like most MSI boards have.
Do you have a link to an MSI motherboard that has that little window? I've never heard of that before.
@@a_loli
I can't post links for whatever reason (my comment gets deleted immediately if I do) but I'm pretty sure every MSI mainboard has that "feature". It's a little strip in the bottom left corner where they left out the silkscreen and the layers are numbered. Just search up any MSI board review and look at the pictures :)
Even my Asus X99 Deluxe has it
And I put it on the boards I design (though you probably won't find boards that I've designed in a PC anytime soon)
Hey, Buildzoid! Guys here and today we're commenting on another video of yours.
I hope you would review z690 lineup when it's going to be available!
no. he will do LGA775 Boards as soon as Z690 becomes available
Of course man :D there will be a lot of Breakdowns and Roundups!
@@milchkopf3881 oh yes please, the best CPU socket ever :D
I enjoyed this ramble, specially the memory section.
perfect review, you explained everything on point. im buying this board becuase of you
b550m mortar vs b550m aorus pro-p, which one is better for overclocking stability? (mortar is 35 bucks cheaper for me)
I have this motherboard paired with r9 5950x with 280mm aio tried undervolting 0.12 just to keep its temperature manageable
@Actually Hardcore Overclocking Gigabyte now has a Rev 1.1 on their site for this board. It looks like the only difference is that they changed the WiFi from the Intel AX200 to an AMD WiFi Module... Do you know anything about the 1.1 version? Also, those of us in the US can't seem to get this board even though they list it on their US site. Their customer service is really bad and they gave me a short response saying that the board isn't available in the US, but wouldn't answer if it would be made available. Any idea from your contacts if they are going to release this in the US?
Also, I have an MSI MAG B550M Mortar WiFi and the Intel WiFi doesn't work out of the box which I am now learning is a common problem and their tech support has you doing things like clearing the BIOS and they told me to make sure there were no grounding issues. A lot of people are having this same issue. I suspect that this was the reason why gigabyte released rev 1.1 of this board.... I think that Intel WiFi is junk. Thoughts?
Nippon, tho I have doubts about the Ebay listing for similar cans. E45c not E00L as well.
appears to be the only manufacturer with 'E'-number-number-letter on the top line.
The flood of errors with fclk 2000 and up seems to be a b-die issue. Most people reporting no problems use djr. Some reports also state that smaller boards have less issues and it may be related to pcie instability on higher infinity fabric bus speeds.
I have only 1 board and no djr are to test :/ USB glitching can usually fixed with vsoc and vddg iod.
I have the B550i Aorus Pro AX. These names are ridiculous
And those chokes look REALLY uneven
I think recent BIOSes have 'fixed' the USB bugging out - I've just run through a bunch of testing on B550's and none of them exhibited it with the most recent stable BIOSES. I still have a B550 Mortar on an older BIOS and that loses it's USB every once in a while.
I gotta say as much as I like the thicker boards, I tend to miss the ability to see where the traces are routing
I'm a simple man.
I see buildzoid uploaded a new mobo review, I click.
Yes
Hey buildzoid, quick question. I have a crosshair vii hero so I'm not too sure on upgrading since I just got a 5950x and 6900xt to replace my 2700xt and Vega 64. I've been thinking of upgrading to an x570, I dont XOC but I love overclocking/tuning everything. What are your suggestions on mobos to get? I've loved the crosshair vii's UEFI but with all these other x570 boards I'm struggling to get a good answer on the topology for them for OCing memory. Specifically for 4x8gb configurations. My other option is to stay on x470 but that's in the air right now
I've been dailying my 5800x synchronized fclk with 2x8 b die for quite a while now with maybe like.. 2 memory pool allocation crashes that I can remember?
Getting another set of 2x8 next week and hoping to maintain 4k speed with reasonable timings, although that new x570S Unify does have my interest
I would love it if you looked up the ASUS PRIME B460 PLUS or B560 boards. :3
can this maybe help clock better than tachyon on ram? lol.
my bad amd. slreepy. thought i saw 560
it's a nice board if you can actually purchase it. can't find it anywhere.
6:08 you can use the sound speaker for troubleshooting right ?
Hey what are the dots in the right memory slot
no idea I guess that dimm slot was made using a different mold or something because those are actually in the plastic of it.
@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking thx have a nice one
Re: ASRock having issues with 2x16 and 4x8, I have an X570 Taichi and it refuses to run 4x16 of Hynix AFR (rated 3200 CL16) at anything above 2933 (but it does so at CL14 so this looks like a frequency wall). Not sure if related or if my memory config is too garbage for the controller to handle.
My Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 can cool 200A (~260W @5GHz) from an Intel 10900k. Why wouldn't it be able to cool the 5950x? The heat even is better distributed.
I can't find this board for sale anywhere.
Buildzoid and I ARE best friends :)
Question unrelated to video: is it possible that I degraded the gddr5 on my 1060 by pushing oc too high? Temps never exceeded 70c. Thanks
Yes, if you used too high voltage. Otherwise, AFAIK, clock by itself wont degrade it, only the voltage.
@@patrikjankovics2113 I didn't touch voltage at all, yet it is showing some signs of degradation (previously stable settings are now artifacting). Meh
unlikely
@@antonis5999 well, decrease the clock then
do you like the EVGA x570 bord
Are you getting the EVGA 570 mobo?
Been holding out for this because I wanted B550M with WiFi, but I STILL can't find it anywhere.
I contacted Gigabyte and after TWO WEEKS they sent me a terse message telling me that it's not available on the US market. I sent them a response saying basically "WTF, then why do you put it on your US site?" Their response? "Thank you for your feedback". FML
@@objecttothis Guess I'll be going with my first ASUS MB then if I can find the B550-I on sale before the AX manages to make it to market. IF it ever does.
for me its only available on aliexpress (i've paid aroud $144 bucks for it)
Cap config looks a lil cheap to me.
beware GIGABYTE B550M AORUS PRO without AX is a trash board with a discrete MOSFETs VRM.
GIGABYTE B550M AORUS PRO-P is actually more like this.
As soon as I see how crooked the components are on this board, I'm done with it. If they didn't control production quality it seems a gamble that they controlled it on the planning side.
I thought this was the only 6 layer AM4 mATX. Am I forgetting?
Also, I want this motherboard to exist in the US so bad. I don't know why I can't get it anywhere yet. Almost bought a Chinese one to try and flash an English BIOS onto it.
I thought the ASUS TUF MATX is also 6 layers.
@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking ASUS doesn't say anything about it being 6 layer, which makes me think it's not. Some review websites say it's 4 layer, too.
I'm currently using a B550M Steel Legend, and for some reason my 2 2x8GB kits of Trident Z RGB (SR B-die) run /together/ at 3600 14-15-15-34, but I can't get it to boot above 3733 for any reason. I have a 2x16 Ballistix Sport LT kit on the way, expecting similar results since it's a dual rank kit on a B550M Steel Legend. Hoping the Aorus Pro AX can be the one that manages to give me 3800-4000MHz with either of these kits.
Only caps which are unacceptable are Chinese like Aishi. Taiwanese manufacturers are fine but if an paying like 200+ I like to see Japanese ones Rubycons are my personal choice.
I've never seen Rubycons on a motherboard. I don't think they even make aluminum polymers.
X570 assmaster
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