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AMD X570, B550, A520 chipsets and motherboards on them
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev
    • First in Ryzen family of chipsets made inside company, chipsets are very profitable business, this is why AMD doing this
    • Much higher TDW of 15 watts
    • 4x PCIe 3.0 lines connecting CPU and chipset will be replaced by 4x PCIe 4.0 lines doubling throughput
    • All lines provided by chipset will be PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0.
    • Number of provided lines will rise by 25-50%
    • It'll have 4 USB 3.1 Gen2 ports controller not requiring additional Asmedia chips and supporting part of power delivery standards.
    • We can see build in 10Gbe network controller (that will still require additional chips and transformer).

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    ASRock X570 PG Velocita

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero - very small update

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    This is how "smart" PR department promotion looks like

    Lot of videos are now made such way, invent fake problem or blow out of proportions small one and try to push narrative you want later.

  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    A520 chipset (in reality it is same chip as B550 but with few switches burned by laser)

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    ASUS and Asrock decided not to turn off 1st and 2nd gen processors support (read 1700-2700) for B550.

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    Good, good.

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Present prices are abnormal

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    X570 are mostly cheaper

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    You can get top condition used Threadripped motherboard for less (with 10gb lan and such).

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  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    A520 is horrible defective child

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    ASRock boards

    • A520M Pro4
    • A520M Pro4 R2.0
    • A520M Pro4 R3.0
    • A520M-HDV
    • A520M-HDVP
    • A520M-HDV R2.0
    • A520M-HDV R3.0
    • A520M-HVS
    • A520M-HVS R2.0
    • A520M-ITX/ac
    • A520M/ac
    • A520M-HVS R3.0
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  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    All B550 boards prices

    MSI

    • B550 Gaming Carbon Wifi: $219
    • B550i Gaming Edge WiFi: $199
    • B550 Gaming Edge WiFi: $189
    • B550 Tomahawk: $179
    • B550M Mortar WiFi: $169
    • B550M Mortar: $159
    • B550 Gaming Plus: $149
    • B550-A Pro: $139
    • B550M Bazooka: $139
    • B550M Pro-VDH WiFi: $129
    • B550M Pro-Dash: $119

    Gigabyte

    • B550 Aorus Master: 279$
    • B550 Aorus Pro: $179 ($189 for Wi-Fi version)
    • B550 Aorus Elite: 139$
    • B550I Aorus Pro AX: $179
    • B550 Vision D — $260;
    • B550 Gaming X — $139;
    • B550M Aorus Pro — $129;
    • B550M Aorus Elite — $109;
    • B550M Gaming — $99
    • B550M DS3H - 94$

    Asus

    • ROG Strix B550-E Gaming - 279$
    • ROG Strix B550-F Gaming - 189$ (209$ for Wi-Fi version)
    • ROG Strix B550-I Gaming - 229$
    • TUF Gaming B550-Plus - 179$
    • TUF Gaming B550M-Plus -159$ (179$ for Wi-Fi version)
    • Prime B550-Plus – 149$
    • Prime B550M-A (Wi-Fi) — $134 (149$ for Wi-Fi version)
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    On A520 estimate

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    B550 asus board prices and configs

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    Note how marketing try to sell you first 2.5Gbit board, then 5gbit and next 10Gbit. Morons.

    Also note that Intel 2.5Gbit chipset has severe bugs and current revision can't work at 2.5Gbit with half of the routers (hardware issue!).

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  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Motherboards

    MSI MPG B550 Gaming Carbon WIFI

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    ASUS ROG STRIX B550-E

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    AORUS B550 Aorus Master

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    ASROCK B550 Taichi

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    Biostar B550 GTQ

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    B550 slides

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    This one is quite strange as Zen 2 perfectly works on B350 or X370 boards.

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Soyo cheap B550 board

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    First boards info can be released on May with boards available in June-July.

    It is expected that B550 will be essentially B450 (and it is essentially B350) with minimal changes, just includes PCIe 4.0 on the direct CPU lines (GPU slot and first M.2 slot).

    Actually any B450 board can do this, but AMD ordered to shut down parts of BIOS that allowed such.

    Criminals.

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  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    AsRock Board

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    On B550 chipset

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Thanks to huge x570 boards margins and same thing with new HEDT board, AsRock income increased 31% YoY. Second half income jumped 35%, and profits more than doubled at 110%.

    They are ripping you.

  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    B550 chipsets situation

    AMD ordered ASMedia and MB makers not to release B550 motherboards to keep AM4 boards prices high.

    B550 also will be almost 100% copy of old B450 (that is effectively B350), only few new USB controllers and such will be added.

    All PCIe 4.0 support will come from CPU and will concern M.2 slot and one PCIe x16 slot (and already had been available in some old BIOS for B450 boards, but AMD asked to remove it).

    Situation with AMD chipsets is absolutely horrible, and this includes even latest Threadripper chipset (that is remarked x570).

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