GIGABYTE B550 AORUS Master (AMD AM4)

Damit wir uns bitte richtig verstehen, ich teste heute mit dem Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master ein Motherboard mit AMDs kleinerem Chipsatz, also einem Mittelklasse Chip, der sich eigentlich deutlich unterhalb seines X570-Pendants einordnen soll. Doch genau dieser B550-Chip sitzt hier auf einem Oberklasse-Unterbau, der mit leichten Abstrichen und einigen fehlenden Anschlüssen so auch für das Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master verwendet wird.

Whenever it comes to deciding which motherboard you desire there are three key things to take into account. 1) What it looks like. 2) What it looks like. 3) What it looks like. What? Okay we're visual creatures and there are more elements than that, but we'll start with the obvious, the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master is an X570 motherboard in disguise.

The Gigabyte B550 AORUS Master Motherboard is incredible, it’s rammed full of premium features and well, that puts it in a very strange position. At what point do you think of going for the “mid-range” B550 chipset over the more expensive X570 chipset? This is a very high-end board for a mid-range chipset, and it’s got far more in common with an X570 but it doesn’t have the same number of Gen4 lanes. Of course, if you only need 1 Gen4 PCIe slot and M.2, I guess that’s fine too. However, this clearly isn’t going to be a mass-market choice for consumers.

Gigabyte offers an expensive but superb B550 motherboard with the Aorus Master. Every PCIe lane that was available has been rerouted and brought to use. The trick to get to 3x M2 SSDs is an x8 link on graphics, it's the one thing you'll need to forfeit on. But believe me, it's just not an issue for your gaming performance. Next to a proper looking motherboard (with very little RGB I might add) you also reap the benefits of 2.5G Ethernet and AX WIFI.