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ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING WI-FI, AMD And ThunderBolt

April 23, 2021TWGHardware

Full Sized, Fully Featured, But At A Cost Motherboards, like the chips we plug in, are getting more expensive overall. The B series of motherboards tend to be less expensive than the X series of motherboards and while they still are, that does mean that $190 for the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING WI-FI counts […]

BIOSTAR RACING B550GTA For Business Or Pleasure

March 1, 2021TWGHardware

Vermeer Support For $160 The FPS Review recently tested the BioStar Racing B550GTA motherboard, with quite a few nice features for the price tag. For instance there are two M.slots, one PCIe 4.0 and one 3.0, both of which have heatsinks included. For older storage you have a half dozen SATA ports, giving you a […]

ASUS Zen 3 BIOS Updates, New B550 And X570 Motherboards

October 9, 2020October 10, 2020TWGHardware

Last up is an all new flagship B550 board, the ROG Strix B550-XE Gaming which also sports 2.5G Intel Ethernet, and Intel WiFi 6 AX200 but also adds a total of six M.2 slots thanks to the Hyper M.2 x16 card which splits those lanes to four M.2 slots. This board also actively cools VRM […]

BIOSTAR B550MH; Micro-ATX, Micro Price

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020TWGHardware

Guaranteed RGB Free BioStar’s micro-ATX board will run you just under $100 and has a very simple black design without and integral RGBs nor any headers for such either. With a board of this size the features are somewhat physically limited but BioStar has still managed to get quite a bit onboard. The two DIMM […]

Tough And Tiny, The ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-Plus

August 21, 2020TWGbot0

An mATX Solution From ASUS TUF, The Gaming B550M-Plus If you like tiny Ryzen systems and for whatever reason are looking for something other than an ASRock micro-ATX solution you can check out Kitguru’s review of the ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-Plus. ASUS did not skimp on the power systems, with 8+2 DrMOS power stages and […]

ASRock B550 Taichi Motherboard Review

August 18, 2020August 21, 2020TWGbot0

In single-threaded testing the Ryzen 9 3900X scored an average score of 519 over three runs, with multi-threaded scores averaging 7039. Performance was higher with the X570 ACE in this test, with an average single-thread score of 529 and multi-thread average score of 7106. In 3DMark the overall/GPU/CPU scoring breakdown was 11191/11066/11963, and with the […]