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Sorry I meant to ask if high airflow will favor either the Elite or the Tuf? In Denmark the Tuf cost a little more than the Elite. I guess I will have to wait until someone makes a propper thermal test of the Elite.

Thank you. Don't know why I didn't think about comparing the listed components. Look like the Elite and the Pro share the same vrm components. Price, power draw and chipset fan made me uninterested in x570 boards, so I didn't read about the different models. But after reading a few reviews of the aorus x570 elite you statement, that gigabyte botched the elites heatsink, seems a bit harsh. Reviews about the Aorus x570 are generally positive and buildzoid even sad the elite almost made aorus pro unattractive. Yes the sinks on the x570 elite is a little less effective compared to the x570 pro. But the difference seems minimal. Do you happen to know how the sinks on the b550 pro compares to the b550 Tuf? If they are about equal I guess the elites sinks are a little less effective. But I don't know if gigabytes vrms generate more or less heat (at equal load) compared to the Tuf. I have a huge case with high airflow, controlled by speedfan. So idle is silent but any work on cpu or GPU ramps up the airflow. My case also have a huge side mounted fan taking care of area around my cpu socket. Will high airflow favor either the elite or the pro? I don't care about crazy high ram speeds, 1:1 ratio performs best. But if any board could overclock my somewhat crappy Corsair 3200mhz ram to something like 3400mhz that would be nice. And who knows zen3 might make faster ram more attractive...

At what resolution do you game? At high resolutions the bottleneck will be your 2060 even with an older Intel at 4Ghz. If you don't game at high-res check something like anandtechs list of best gaming CPUs.

Yes I know 550M Aorus features a "lite" VRM. Asus Tuf and Aorus elite cost about the same price and both boards offer the features I want. Im sure both are boards are nice, just can't decide. The Aorus includes a nvme heatspreader so that's a plus. I'm definitely no vrm expert but it looks the elite have same vrm as the higher end auros pro, just different heatsinks. Can anyone confirm this? Educated estimates of the elites heatsink performance would be appreciated. The Asus Tuf is tier A and blue text. Auros elite is estimated tier A -but is it in top or bottom of tier A? Part of me wants the Asus because it seems like a safe gamble, but I also have great experience with Gigabyte (and the nvme ssd heatsink seems like a nice bonus). In the end I just want the board with the strongest vrm and expected lifetime. Regarding lifetime the Tuf features military caps. Does that mean they will likely last longer than the caps gigabyte use? And what about pcb quality. I assume both boards are 6 layers? The Tuf apparently have 2 copper layers -this makes a real difference or is it just smart marketing? And last bios updates. I don't need fast and frequent updates, but serious bug fixes and support for future am4 CPUs is important. (Currently runs a water-cooled 3700 on a cheap ASRock micro ATX b350 board, and was pleasantly surprised that ASRock spend resources releasing a bios with zen2 support) So does Asus or gigabyte have the best history releasing bios for officially unsupported CPUs? I know this is a lot of questions, but I really want the best value board for my needs...

So ASUS b550 tuf gaming plus has better vrm than gigabyte b550 aurous elite?