GIGABYTE Intros B550 X Gaming Socket AM4 Motherboard

Supporting the latest Socket AM4 renaissance sparked by the reminiscence pricing disaster is a brand new crop of motherboards, and GIGABYTE’s newest addition is the B550 X Gaming. The board brings a lot of GIGABYTE’s latest motherboard improvements to the aged platform. It is construct within the ATX form-factor, and attracts energy from a mix of 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connectors, conditioning it for the processor with an 8+2 section duet-rail VRM that is ample to energy the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The socket is wired to 4 DDR4 DIMM slots, a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slot, and an M.2 Gen 4 x4 NVMe slot. The board’s second M.2 slot is Gen 3 x4, and wired to the B550 FCH, together with 4 SATA 6 Gbps ports. Other growth slots embrace a PCI-Express x16 (electrical Gen 3 x4), and two PCIe x1.

The board options M.2 EZ-Latch design that makes it straightforward to put in the M.2 SSD and the included heatsink for the M.2 Gen 4 NVMe slot. The board additionally options newer ARGB 2.0 headers. Display connectivity contains one every of ordinary DisplayPort and HDMI 2.1. There is not any WLAN connectivity, the board’s sole community connectivity is a 2.5 GbE interface pushed by a Realtek 8125-series PHY. The board’s onboard audio resolution options an entry-level Realtek ALC892 codec. USB connectivity contains one 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 port, three 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, one 5 Gbps USB type-C, two USB 2.0 ports on the rear panel, with two extra USB 3.2 ports by way of headers, and a number of USB 2.0 headers. Expect a worth effectively underneath $150.