Too bad he didn't mention the ASRock B550 Extreme4.

thanks for you tireless work, we really appreciate it.

Make a I like C O D E S shirt lol

Look at bottom of this reddit picture x590 board. i.redd.it/1ugbz0ccpg551.jpg

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This should be the slogan for every motherboard manufacturer.

Darkswordz for every pc part manufacturer in general lol

Even mid-range is too expensive. It is pointless to buy a B550 board now. AM4 is at end of life and B450 will support Zen3 too.

Yeah, but unfortunately, motherboard prices have been going up with every generation. At current prices, I don't suggest the average user buying a motherboard above $200 USD, and that pretty much only applies to the X570 and Z490, but there's not much point of an X570 for the average user when B550s are out and I don't recommend any CPU that makes use of the Z490, so yeah, $180 USD is probably the most money the average user should pay for a motherboard. Most people should be looking at the $150 and below realistically speaking. Funnily enough, there are people out there getting $400 motherboards for the sake of getting one. Ask them which feature they need from it, and it's either no answer or they bring something up that a $150 motherboard has. I guess this is why manufacturers make so many product stacks and can continue to do so, because some people are buying based on price, not based on needs.

For the price of a better B550 you could get a good x570 for not a lot more...

Thanks! The hero we did not deserve.

@@merlingt1 Yes, this confirms that the Vision D board is not actually covered. :(

@BattoEnstien the hero we don't deserve.

@@Bamfhammer yeah why? :/

@@Bamfhammer Man, that's why I wanted to watch this vid :(

Is it the Super Saiyan hair?

I literally clicked for the hey guys buildzoid here. Then stayed for the content but that was the hook

yea the last time we saw his face (like a month ago i think?) u can go full anime

Best comment ever mate.

Top tier waifu for sure

BZ had to be picky with this one too, like he said in the intro, because there are so damn many boards now! We cut the most expensive ones because it starts making more sense to just buy X570 instead at those ~$180-200+ prices.

@@GamersNexus yep, I just got an Asus tuf gaming plus wifi for 180.

@@GamersNexus Makes complete sense.

@@GamersNexus Yes/no - Most X570 boards (all except the Aorus Xtreme) have active cooling. To me, this means that any B550 board cheaper than the Xtreme with passive cooling is worth considering. Not everyone's as sensitive to/intolerant of tiny fans as me, though.

@@GamersNexus I agree. You want a good, not very expensive ''B550'' motherboard? Buy the X570 MSI Tomahawk. All B550 have compromises that I'm not willing to deal with...

Thanks so much for the kind words! We will continue to try to live up to them!

:)

Your grammar critique is unnecessary. My b450 board I got was ripped by Hardware Unboxed and others. Gigabyte made a revision. I bought that mb, Gigabyte Aourus Wifi Pro back in Jan 2019 for $105. A year and a half later the price has creeped up to $130 and I've had no issues with my 2700 and 32 Gb of 3000 Mhz ram, 1 Tb nvme ssd on that board

@@frommatorav1 If you haven't realized it, it isn't a grammar critique.

@@frommatorav1 /whoosh

I’m just waiting for the day he just ranks boards based on number of USB ports.

@@backupplan6058 wdym, he basically does this already, especially when talking about AM4 boards, it's goes postcode, Pcie slot arrangement, Usb ports, usb ports, memory topology, Vcore Vrm

what Micro-ATX mobo would you choose ?

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It's a cool board infact, with Thunderbolt.

5% is reliable?

@@keithw4920 Sounds a whole lot better than 33%

But that is related to Ryzen APUs, which most of the time are expected to have around 800 to 1000mhz higher speeds in memory vs CPUs

at least you know it doesn't suck too much xD

He responded to this on his channel.

@@Gorgula And what did he said? DOn't see any video about it apart one from January saying he doesn't know when it'll come.

@@clad95150 He say it s a good board but not enough usb port compare to other mobo. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7CBgsR6y9HXhY0.html

How is it ?

same expected buildzoid to be interested in it with 10 rear USB ports and post codes

he already reviewed it on his channel, it just didn't make it on to the list. surely a great board, but the price is too high for this list

@@bFix yes, but the comment was before his video was released

and I also just watched this before his video (as he recommended in the comment section, when I was writing that comment I didn't know it was nexus gamers who cut it (their decision is fine imo, but I can understand why you are sad about it)

the review I meant is from his round-up of all gigabyte boards a couple of weeks ago

lol

Same shit about Asus B550-F and X570-F, the B550 is better wtf...

You wouldn't want to upgrade to 500-series before Ryzen 4000 desktop launches anyway, and by then (hopefully) pricing will have dropped a bit. If you're planning on getting a Ryzen 3000 or lower, get a B450 motherboard.

Really depends on what you are running now. Is the upgrade needed or can you run it one more year and make the proper upgrade to DDR5 and the new AMD socket? Which will give you a foundation for atleast another 3-4 years.

@@c99kfm thats what i thought. ryzen 4000 is so close to release now. it doesn't really make sense to buy a b550 +ryzen 3600 at current price. if b550 priced more reasonably, i would bite the bullet .

@@evertchin I expect that A520 is planned to provide boards for the budget market.

@mister.T Jr after all these discussions you still have no idea why we are waiting and we are the idiots? well... you might not be as intelligent as you think you are.

great idea; you should do this. great video.

same question!

@@eltiondanglli4217 He said in his own video why he didn't include it. It has 6 USBs at the rear which isn't enough for him. Other than that it's great... I find it weird that it's not included because most people won't use more than that anyways

Steve is in the background saying "more graphs"

Steve is in the background saying "MORE POWER!"

Guess you don't mind your 2nd sdd running at pcie 3 x2 ? This is a big turn of for me. Don't understand why no one seems to notice this...

@@AllanHundeboll That's cause B550 only supports only one M.2 SSD with full PCI-E 4.0 speed. You shouldn't really use the second M.2 slot cause you automatically loose 2-3 SATA ports on the motherboard and the speed of the SSD is reduced by more then 50% even if it is a PCI 3.0x4. If you wan't to use more then one M.2 SSD at full speed buy a x570 motherboard.

Same, was hoping for some info

do you mean 20/07/12?

Well 10y ago you could buy 100-130€ boards with post codes... To this date I can not understand why they went away from this.

You buy new $80 chinese motherboards with post codes (mostly X99s).

I haven't needed to see a post code on a build for years. Just don't think it's that necessary unless you're overclocking, and apparently the manufacturers agree.

Only a very small minority of consumers care about post codes. That's why manufactors skimp it.

yup same for me from the beginning of time.

I have the x570 Taichi, and I hate the damn thing. Maybe it's just mine, but the small issues drive me crazy.

And it's a pretty expensive B550 motherboard that you might as well go get the X570 version instead.

I was waiting for this too. I guess the price is one of the worst points, I would go X570 if they are too close but I really hate the chipset fan. I just can't stand it :/

@@sweetyfox7058 nah, the lack of a chipset fan and better thermals than most x570 boards makes the tomahawk worth the cost. But I get why it might scare some people off. It's also 180 bucks like the Asus and gigabyte atx boards mentioned. I'm also not in a situation where I'd need multiple pcie gen 4 SSDs (which many many people don't need) so thermals and longevity are my two utmost critical needs. B550 boards deliver better on that and with less points of failure. In the end you get what you pay for to an extent and the 180 b550 boards seem to be the sweet spot for performance, overclocking, durability and reliability.

@@martinquintana2458 I got my tomahawk for 180 (got lucky on the draw at Newegg) and I think it's worth it from a reliability standpoint. Definitely check out some of the other boards mentioned in this video though. If you don't need multiple pcie gen 4 SSDs then stick with b550. Only thing I can think of for needing that much pcie bandwidth for storage is multiple 8k video renderings or utramsssive engineering projects like a full scale internal and Boeing 787 for example. Most of the population doesn't need multi pcie gen 4 tbh.

It got dropped cause of lack of usb ports and a useless additional obsolete previous generation lan port. I mean I was surprised when they announced the board and saw almost no usb ports there.

Bcuse it’s trash

@@detective_orange6280 ehm its included in the thumbnail and the discription says its in it. Doesn't matter if its trash or not, thats not the point and no answer at all lol.

Did you?

@@martinquintana2458 according to the video no. I got the asus b550 rog strix f gaming. It was a $190 board. Im planning on using it for the upcoming 4000 series cpus so it should be good for that

@@mw3glitches123456789 it's still pretty good. Though you could have gone with a x570 unless you care about RGB.

@TotallyTrix that's a really good board. Sadly it didn't make it to this video but I like the looks of it and I heard it's pretty feature rich. Enjoy your buy!

@@martinquintana2458 yeah it's very pretty. God damn Asus is getting me with their RGB, isn't it?

How many fan headers it have I need answers

@@sish9912 It has 8 in total, a cpu fan header, a aio pump header, and 6 case fan headers.

@@Proffesor_Z never thought about getting a fan splitter / hub?

@@omegaPhix I don’t like splitters because the mobo thinks that only one fan is plugged in so I can’t change them individually. A hub is even worse cause it’s not controllable through BIOS and you can’t really set fan curves.

@@Proffesor_Z A hub is just a fancy splitter, wasn't talking about an external fan controller. Do you really have a seperate fan curve for every single fan in your system?

lacks BIOS flashing feature and doesn't do anything else to compensate for that.

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking Thought it was something like that, most of these B550 boards are too damn similar and decent, i have the B550M Steel Legend and so far my only complain is that the LED's on the board dont fucking turn off when the PC is powered off.

@@lookitsrain9552 i think you can turn off the setting from the bios. turn on led in s5 or something like that

worse memory support

Both those matx boards offer the same as the b550m aorus pro, but are more expensive.

The KZfaqr, Buildzoid, overclocks alot thats why his channel name is "Actually overclocking". If it can run a 3950x at stock then it will easily run low end cpus without issues. It's much quicker to just talk about the high end because of that. Most people who have a fucking brain would realize this.

@@thedogiestgamerz1069 Thank you for being intelligent.

Agree. Seems this guy only cares about boards you can run a 1000$ CPU on, overclocked of course. And that is totally fine, but don't say every other board is "terrible". The video says "Best B550 boards for Ryzen CPUs", well, last time I checked Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 existed. It is not just Ryzen 9 out there. In fact, most of us don't care about Ryzen 9 at all.

A rank is a section of the memory within a channel that the memory controller is able to access/control independently, but not simultaneously). More ranks is harder for the memory controller to manage, which makes memory overclocking harder, but it also allows "rank interleaving" where one rank is accessed while the other is in a refresh cycle, which effectively reduces latency. If you put multiple DIMMs (memory sticks) into each channel, the ranks remain separate (i.e. if you put two dual-rank sticks into one memory channel, you have 4 ranks). A rank is made up of 8 memory chips, so DIMMs with two rows of 8 chips or with 8 chips on both sides of the PCB (usually 16GB sticks) are dual-rank, and DIMMs with two rows on both sides (usually 32GB) are quad-rank. All 4GB DDR4 DIMMs are single-rank. Some games (Codemasters' F1 games are my go-to example of games that love memory rank interleaving) and some other software really benefit from dual-rank memory, while others don't benefit from it at all. Quad-rank memory is mostly a bad choice because it is likely to limit your memory clocks while the interleaving provides diminishing returns beyond dual-rank. If you're heavily overclocking your memory you should get single-rank, but for general use it might be better to get 1 dual-rank DIMM per channel, or 2 single-rank DIMMs per channel.

@@nathangamble125 hey bro why didn't bullzoid recommend b550 tomhawk,tuf gaming plus,gaming edge,f gaming?and what about itx Mobo of msi?his whole list is filled with gigabyte can you tell me which is better gigabyte b550,msi or asus?

Upon each manufacturer's website, they provide the marketing mumbo jumbo and PDF documents for each manual. I find MSI likes to do silly things like refer to their PCB as *"server-grade"* rather than elaborating on the details. I expect without having access to the motherboards and without being knowledgeable, most individuals will rely upon reputable sources for learning the specifics of VRM or PCB quality. Of course, B550 is early in its lifetime and so much more will be known a year from now as to which boards are desirable. These motherboard pages are _full_ of details and excess. You may want to do a search for "PCB" when on a page, using standard web browser shortcuts CTRL+F.

​@ Captain Price, I think they're probably all decent motherboards for most average consumers and enthusiasts. Most folks look first for the features they want in a motherboard. You find something you like, Captain Price, and then you weigh that against the opinions of reviewers and articles you find online about that product. I feel Buildzoid is a bit of an engineer mentality. Maybe Buildzoid is focused on things like efficiency, not having waste or what is unnecessary or impractical. But overall, I feel most of these motherboards are probably fine, Captain Price. Look for what you like, and weigh reviews and customer ratings against that. You'll land on something you like eventually, and you'll be happy with it. Remember these motherboards are like foundational features. They provide us the standards and interfaces we deal with, like which ports we have and how many, which sockets we support, and all that ultimately details which components we will be dealing with when building and upgrading our machines. But the motherboards are, again, foundational, and ultimately tend not to be the deciding factor in what makes your computer good in any one way. Typically, your CPU or GPU, or the quantity or speed of your storage or memory, or the inadequacy of your power supply will probably all be a factor more noticeably weighing down and limiting your system before your motherboard is. Especially where these modern B450 and B550 boards are concerned. I think they're mostly all great and adequate for most folks, Captain Price. I wish you well, Captain Price. If you're building your first machine, I wish you well and I hope you're not too anxious or scared or anything about making mistakes. Enjoy yourself! Those ASUS and MSI boards are just fine. Use whichever you like.

You'd have to watch the video anyways to make sure of what board is being mentioned, the names are super fucky.

Man, people are mean. As though youtube content must only be consumed their way. I think yours is a valid suggestion.

Might just be me, but I never noticed it. I like the information in this, “fast as possible format”, plus it’s easier to go back and forth to compare features.

@@CrypticCabal same goes for me. really normal if you have "few" idea about computer hardwares

Msi b550 a pro is legend

MSI boards are good but not as great as the boards featured in the list as aorus pro has better heatsinks and features but no post code whereas the steel legend has that but lacks some features and heatsink. MSI is somewhat in between don't get me wrong it has some nice boards but got left out by more niche products.

Is there a one in his channel, something like first impression video if i remember correctly.

@@winnieid2727 Yeah I saw that, but those aren't as in depth as the actual board review when he gets high res pictures of the naked boards. Specifically I want to know if MSI on the B550i implemented the same level of care for memory overclocking as they did for the z490i.

@@jasoncruze1493 I'm talking specifically of the ITX boards.

Same I haven't seen a head to head review of them both and those boards are the only ones I'm in interested in.