ASUS ROG Strix B550-E Gaming (AMD AM4)

Mit den X570-Mainboards und den Ryzen-3000-Prozessoren (Matisse) läutete AMD den Startschuss für die Einführung des PCIe-4.0-Standards in den Consumer-Bereich ein. Fast ein Jahr später folgt nun mit dem B550-PCH der Mainstream-Chip, der gerade auch für die günstigeren Ryzen-Prozessoren ein idealer Partner ist. Das erste B550-Mainboard im Test ist ASUS' ROG Strix B550-E Gaming.

We spent a lot of time in the early pages of this review going over the ways in which the ASUS ROG Strix B550-F and B550-E are surprisingly different for two models just a letter apart in their nomenclature. Our time with them only emphasised how they feel quite apart from each other. We understand that feeling is a nebulous concept and without experience of all eight of our B550 launch motherboards they appear, in raw benchmark terms at least, too similar to be called different. Let us try and explain.

OK so let’s get one thing pretty clear (again), we’ve reviewed two ASUS motherboards today and they are very similar to each other, one is called the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-E Gaming and the other is the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming. The E is the more powerful and feature-packed of the two, but overall they are mostly the same.